Author: Harold Dalton

The Tour of Denmark is canceled. Were you planning to watch it? Did you even know it existed? Apparently it’s Denmark’s largest recurring sporting event, coming in just ahead of the annual rebroadcast of that 1990s Peter Schmeichel advert for bacon. The UCI found a place for the race in their densely-packed revised calendar, but difficulties and uncertainties around managing the COVID-19 situation have meant that the organizers have decided to canceled this year’s edition of the race Here’s what the race organizers have to say. Or what Google Translate says the race organizers have to say. Despite the new…

OK, not literally. Well, maybe a bit. After a couple of years trying to add extra value that entices its free users to subscribe, such as training tools and safety features, they’ve finally taken the opposite approach to monetization: removing features that have been free for 11 years and putting them behind a paywall. “This means that, starting today, a few of our free features that are especially complex and expensive to maintain, like segment leaderboards, will become subscription features.” – Strava founders Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath Here’s what’s been taken away from the free plan: The full leaderboard: You’ll only see the…

Our friends over at The Gravel Ride have dropped their latest episode. This week, Craig speaks with coach and women’s cycling advocate Lorri Lee Lown. I think we’re in a heyday of great women to model the gravel lifestyle after, which is awesome. Many of the top, top female athletes have this sense of irreverence and humility in their public personas, where they show themselves falling down. They’re just showing what we all experience when we choose a challenge like riding off road.Lorri Lee Lown Listen on the player above, on The Gravel Ride’s website, or on Spotify/iTunes.

This essay is Part Four 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…

In 2008, we relaunched Derailed as a monthly magazine. Every issue would feature a headline article and then a scattering of the essays and silly nonsense that had made us popular. Back on Track was the first issue, and it was an apt subject matter: my part was written from the Zesdaagse Rotterdam. I was there alone running the live broadcast for Cycling.TV, lugging a desktop computer and monitor across the city each day so that I could plug it into the AV truck. It was a pretty good gig. The race put me in an expensive hotel with all…

Our friends at The London Bike Show have taken the tough decision to move their trade show from “delayed” to “canceled.” The show will return in March 2021. We kind of hate trade shows because you always get cornered by Gil from the Simpsons trying to convince you to cover (or sometimes to buy for cash!) his latest job lot of ladybird bike bells from AliExpress… but the London Bike Show is a bit classier than that. Thankfully. Here’s what they’re saying: Since making the initial announcement on 12th March that the shows would be delayed until July 2020, the…

Cyanide, and their new publisher with a daft name, have confirmed more details about their new Tour de France 2020 videogame for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The big news? It’s got a first person camera. Ever wanted a POV of a virtual Chris Froome’s lycra-covered ass crack? Now you got it, plus some spindly little arms that seem like they’d be really disorienting as you try to play. Looks absolutely horrible. Maybe if it has VR headset support… ah, but then we’d have to buy a VR headset and wear it. What would the neighbors think? In other…

Yeah, we’re doing a #tbt today. One of the Ts stands for Tuesday. Here are our media awards from 2009. Which seems a bit weird, since we were also earning a living working in that same media. At least we didn’t say that Cycling.TV was either really good or really shit this time, like we used to do depending on our general mood. And that 2009 Armstrong – Contador feud turned out to be funnier than we expected. This entire article about it reads like a Striking the Sun chapter. “I went to see Lance before the race and he…