Author: Harold Dalton

Everesting is the new Hour Record. Yeah, right. But it has become hotly contested in the Covid-19 era. Records are falling left, right, and center. Actually, if there’s a direction the records are falling, it’s up. Everesting is the act of climbing the height of Everest in a single ride. That’s 8,848 meters. And since we can’t ride up Everest, there’s a lot of prep work in finding the right climb to focus on, completing endless (editor’s note: not actually endless) repetitions to reach the fabled height. Everyone is at it. Your club mates are climbing Hardknott Pass thirty times.…

This essay is Part Five of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below is the same for all five essays. One of my great academic mentors, who would almost certainly prefer to remain unnamed in this article, had a fundamental belief in common with me: that sports matter. But while we certainly cycled along the same roads, both metaphorically and literally, it became clear that we were approaching a similar topic from slightly different directions. Over five weeks in 2016, we explored these directions, with research conducted at Tufts and MIT. Here follows…

Big news: Sunweb are going to be wearing slightly different colored Lycra this summer. Look, the only other stuff going on is pro cyclists Everesting and posting black squares to their Instagram feeds, so we’re going to write about this. The new kit was obviously planned to be their special Tour de France kit, and probably would’ve been more impactful if we’d actually seen the team race in their normal jersey this year. But then Covid-19 happened, and now we’ve got a press release about a jersey that will be worn “in training and hopefully racing for the rest of…

In 2006, our half-baked industry insider cycling blog started to get noticed, probably because we were copying jokes from funnier people. We were suddenly getting press passes for fairly big bike races, like the Tour of Britain. We were approached to write a serious profile of Jan Ullrich ahead of the 2006 Tour, which would’ve been our most prolific writing credit to date if it wasn’t for the fact that he didn’t even make the start line. And we were asked to go to Macclesfield for a cyclo-cross event. Well, what else were we going to do on Boxing Day?…

Our friends over at The Gravel Ride have dropped their latest episode. This week, Craig speaks with Amanda Nauman, professional gravel racer and co-organizer of the Mammoth Tuff event. I would go ride in Bishop, which is a little bit south of Mammoth and we realized during these rides that they have the most amazing gravel in the areas surrounding Mammoth. We had done Dirty Kanza, traveled across the country to go to all these races, yet here, five-and-a-half hours North of where we lived, had some of the best gravel that we had ever seen. We were torn… did we want…

Brand new company sodisp has arrived fresh on the scene to provide you with a way to… uh. Well, its value props are a bit disparate to be honest. What it looks like is a way to run events and challenges. At least that’s what they’re leading with. They’re calling them virtual challenges but that just makes us think of Zwift. What they’re really talking about is asynchronous outdoor events, similar to Strava Challenges or the Great Cycle Challenge. Or even the Liverpool Century Club 10 since lockdown. So it certainly has its uses. But the other thing it does,…

Kinda-cool bicycle company Fuji has announced that it’s suspending the sale of its police bikes due to violent police tactics that don’t represent the brand’s core values. Which is unapologetically a badass move. Maybe they’ll announce a new model, the F-12. We’d buy it. “In the last week, we have seen our bicycles used in violent tactics that we did not intend or design them to be used for.“In an effort to work towards real change, Bike Co. the North American distributor of Fuji Bikes, is suspending the sale of police bikes.”Fuji and Bike Co. Now it’s time for Trek…

It’s a part of my career that’s almost completely forgotten even by myself, but I was an in-studio TV pundit for the 2007 Vuelta. I was offering color on the pre-race show, on a broadcast that was going out to both the UK and US through actual TV syndication. I knew a huge amount about the sport, I had all the insider gossip from working so many races, and I ran an extremely popular cycling comedy site. In that context you can see why it seemed like I’d be an entertaining and informative co-host. That assumption was terribly wrong. I…