Author: Harold Dalton

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…

Working in cycling broadcasting meant we watched a lot of cycling. Those guys who sit on Twitter all day banging on about live races? They’re not even 10%. We usually had two races coming in at once, with the satellite receivers programmed hours in advance so we could capture every second from the moment the cameras went live. Which was often long before the live coverage started, and continued several hours after the race had ended. Then we’d have to watch the five minute and thirty minute highlights to ensure they told the right story and didn’t have any issues…

Jarlinson Pantano has been banned from professional cycling for four years for testing positive for EPO during an out-of-competiton test in February 2019, as well as for having a name that sounds too similar to Pantani. You already knew this because it’s old news. Hey, we’ve been busy writing about other things. Pantano retired from the sport in June 2019. So. Good work banning someone who wasn’t going to race anyway. Still, might as well get that ban out there just for completion’s sake. Speaking of “just for completion’s sake,” here’s what the UCI have to say out it: The…

Blacking out our internet presence is the very least we can do today. Literally. But as an act of solidarity, it allows us to show support without inserting our voices into a discussion that isn’t about us.Cycling has its own issues with race. So does sport as a concept. And these issues are not always clear or communicated in a way that makes it apparent that we’re actively participating in narratives that are reproducing oppressive discourses.Contemporary race theory separates racism as systemic and prejudice as individual, and forces us to confront a harsh truth: we are all complicit in racism,…

There’s a moment in Between the World and Me in which Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to Paris. Walking around the 6th arrondissement, he describes himself in another world, free from racism. And in that moment, to me, Ta-Nehisi Coates was no longer a man writing a letter about a lifetime’s experience living within the racial structure of the United States, and instead he became something else: another American tourist overwhelmed by the differences he’s noticed on his first trip to Europe, championing idealized statements about a fragment of a city he’s visited but doesn’t truly know. Paris has its ghettoes, cruel places disconnected both…

Here’s some exciting CEO news that we’re definitely not just sharing because Movistar always send us press passes! No, we’re also sharing it because we want to get hired by BRAIN to publish infrequent press releases about cycling business news that nobody really cares about. Grávalos leads the team’s business development, while also managing the Movistar Team’s roster. As the only Spanish WorldTour team, with both women’s and men’s teams, there’s a huge opportunity for bigger sponsorships and partnerships. Look out for Alejandro Valverde’s face on Spanish crisp packets soon. The Spaniard comes from one of the world’s most prestigious…