Kevin Clark, a Chicago drummer who, as a 12-year-old, portrayed drummer Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the 2003 film School of Rock, died Wednesday. He was killed by a driver while riding his bike early Wednesday morning in the Avondale neighbourhood of Chicago. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Clark was struck by a 20-year-old woman […]
5 of Zwift’s most exciting new updates and upcoming events
Zwift, the virtual cycling program, has had quite a busy year and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. With an explosion of new indoor cyclists and local racing still on hold in many places, the platform has continued to announce new initiatives to keep users engaged and riding the trainer through the spring. Here […]
Forza Italia! (Part 2)
The Giro D’Italia reaches its climax in Milan this weekend with two lancashire born riders in the top 5. We follow on from part 1 last week, as we continue to appreciate the volume and variety of bikes and associated products heralding from Italy. Aside from some outsourcing of manufacture, these companies are 100% Italian […]
Dan Martin victorious on summit finish of the Giro d’Italia
For the first time in the 2021 Giro d’Italia, Egan Bernal showed some weakness on Wednesday’s summit finish at the end of first stage back after the final rest day. Dan Martin took the day’s flowers from the breakaway, giving him stage victories in all three Grand Tours. Although pink jersey Bernal lost nearly a […]
The Sprinkle Support Ride ‘N’ Roll is getting families active
Sprinkle Support, a fundraising platform created by kids, is working to encourage kids and families of all abilities to live an active lifestyle while raising funds for a good cause. The initiative was founded by two girls, seven and nine years old, who wanted to “sprinkle” some kindness on the world during the COVID lockdown. […]
Gallery: 10 stunning photos from Giro’s snowy ascent of Passo Giau
As the first Grand Tour of the season, Giro d’Italia always delivers thrilling drama in the high mountains. And, with snow still clinging to the taller peaks, the thrilling race imagery to match. On Monday’s Queen Stage, weather forced race organizers to shorten racing. Though two high-mountain passes were cut from Stage 16’s parcours, Egan […]
Bernal extends lead on Giro’s extreme weather-shortened queen stage
Giro d’Italia pink jersey holder Egan Bernal soloed to victory on what was supposed to be Monday’s queen stage in the Dolomites, before extreme weather protocols forced the removal of two high mountains from the route. Bernal’s second stage win of the 104th edition padded his lead in the GC. Simon Yates, who started the […]
The heartwarming reason George Bennett rode up the Zoncolan twice
Saturday’s Giro d’Italia stage 14 finished with the toughest climb in the 2021 Giro, and George Bennett (Jumbo-Visma) rode it twice. Riding up the Sutrio side of Monte Zoncolan the riders took on an average gradient of 8.5 per cent over 14.1 kilometres. The climb features brutal 20 per cent sections and cyclists fought their […]
Record-setting centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand dies at 109
Robert Marchand, the multiple world record holder centenarian cyclist, died May 22 at a care facility in Mitry-Mory, France, outside Paris. He was 109. Hadjiretou Timera, the care facility’s director, confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Marchand was born in 1911, in Amiens, France and lived through two World Wars. He travelled […]
Qhubeka-Assos rules Week 2 of the Giro with three victories as breakaway prevails again
Victor Campenaerts finally won a Grand Tour stage on Sunday’s Slovenian excursion at the Giro d’Italia, giving his Qhubeka-Assos team its third victory in five days. The Giro’s GC riders called a truce on Sunday, perhaps racing conservatively after an big crash early in the stage caused a four riders to abandon. For the eighth […]
A wildcard rider’s first professional win comes on Giro’s famed Zoncolan
Although there was some GC skirmishing on the Zoncolan summit finish stage of the Giro d’Italia, the favourites were eclipsed by Lorenzo Fortunato of Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso’s wildcard team EOLO-Kometa taking his first professional win atop the famed mountain. Alberto Contador promised to ride the 1500 km from Madrid to Milan if his […]
Montreal is hosting a bike-thru vaccine clinic
Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve race track, a loop popular with cyclists, is normally closed to the public at this time of year as it hosts the (cancelled for 2021) Montreal Grand Prix. Unlike most years, cyclists are actually being encouraged to ride down to Parc Jean-Drapeau’s Île Notre-Dame to get one of the thousands of […]