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Weekend Dispatch August 23, 2016

August 23, 2016

Peter Morse on his way to winning the Ontario Provincial Criterium Championships in Markham, Ontario. Photograph by Ian Austen The peloton. Photograph by Ian Austen At the start. Photograph by...

Vintage bicycle feature: 1958 Rotrax

July 18, 2016

By Mike Barry Photography by Walter Lai In around 1958 prominent Toronto racer, Trevor Allen ordered three handmade bicycles from Rotrax Cycles in Southampton, England. He purchased two identical bikes...

Vintage Bicycle Feature: Le Rochet

July 14, 2016

By Mike Barry Sr. Photography by Walter Lai [embed]https://vimeo.com/174653545[/embed] Cycles Rochet was an old French company established in the early 1890s in Albert, northern France. Their extensive factory was demolished...

SRAM eTap Road Bicycle

July 7, 2016

Inspired by the paddle shifters of Formula 1 race cars during eTap’s design, SRAM has created a simpler mode of shifting that is wireless, intuitive to use, has excellent actuation...

CRITERIUM RACING

June 14, 2016

By Dede Barry Photography by Casey Gibson Passing the barriers neatly placed on each corner, I walked with my Father and dog on a humid summer evening to the Lixx...

THE ESSENCE OF A GOOD RIDE

June 6, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Ian Austen Towards the end of my 30 years of racing, where all goals were in the pursuit of a finish line, I came to...

GRASS TRACK

April 26, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Walter Lai and Chris Monette Traffic in large cities has made teaching children to ride bicycles difficult. Allowing them to venture around the block on...

INSIDE PARIS-ROUBAIX

April 5, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Kristof Ramon and Scott Mitchell Paris Roubaix is a race of unknowns. What the riders can’t control, what looms in their futures, haunts them until...

Group Riding

April 4, 2016

By Dede Barry Photography by Walter Lai and Chris Monette Video by Michael Barry Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride, especially when the experience is shared...

Classics: The Fight For Position

March 31, 2016

By Michael Barry Every rider in the group knows what is coming: a small town with narrow streets and roundabouts, a corner, then another, then a mud-slicked, small-cobbled farm road,...

The Lead Up

March 23, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Kristof Ramon The protagonists who will animate the Tour of Flanders, Paris Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and the other Spring Classics fine tune their fitness and test...

Cyclocross Race Bike

March 8, 2016

This bicycle was built for Toronto cyclocross racer, Scott Fitzgerald. Scott chose the SRAM 1x11 group for simplicity and functionality. In order to have a wide range of gearing options...