Author: Harold Dalton

Those comments? That the shooting of Rayshard Brooks by police officers was justified. Hmm. Jim Cummins has now been removed from his made-up job position as Chief Gravel Officer. And beyond just firing a dude with the job title equivalent of a baseball cap that says Big Boy on it, Life Time are moving to change the name of the Dirty Kanza event out of respect for the Kaw Nation and its people. This was an issue raised earlier in the year, and Cummins did the equivalent of grabbing his ball sack and sneering in a press statement that essentially…

Last year, we reviewed the PowerTap PowerCal, and it inexplicably became one of our most popular articles. Or maybe not inexplicably – people are looking for a cheap and easy way to access Zwift, a platform that normally comes with quite a technological overhead. The bad news is that the PowerCal is no longer available for sale. But now there’s an even easier option: HR2VP turns any heart rate monitor into a power meter using a similar algorithm to that of PowerTap (or actually CycleOps, since they developed it). And, in fact, it takes the concept one step further, which…

Cycling’s current favorite soap opera is over. GreenEDGE Cycling has confirmed that they will not be working with the Manuela Fundación after all. The drama began last Friday, when GreenEDGE, currently the Mitchelton-Scott team, announced the Manuela Fundación as their new lead sponsor for the remainder of 2020 and the entirety of the 2021 season. But disagreements immediately occurred in public. Francisco Huertas believed he’d bought the entire team, rather than sponsoring it, and set out his aim to make it the top Spanish team in the peloton. Team owner Gerry Ryan disagreed. And today they pulled the plug. Wonder…

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…