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Category: Events

January 18, 2023January 20, 2023

A Resurgence of Track Racing in North America

Track racing in North America is experiencing a slow resurgence with velodromes being built across the continent. Some of the tracks are short and steep and fit into a small…

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January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

Next Generation Track Meet. Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

The surge in talented youth coming through the junior ranks and into the World Tour is unprecedented. North Americans have shown over the last few years, they have the talent…

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December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

Race Days: The Compounding Benefits of Race Experience

The best bike racers aren’t always the strongest or the fittest cyclists on the start line but are often those who have a deep understanding of how to race and…

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November 4, 2022November 5, 2022

Gravel Racing: Its Origins and Its Evolution

By Michael Barry In the hotel restaurant, teammates sat quietly around the table as the rising sun sliced a shaft of light through the window. Some sipped coffee, others munched…

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October 25, 2022October 25, 2022

Hell Of The North 2022 Fall Edition

The road and gravel season came to end last weekend with the autumn edition of the Hell of the North, a long running gravel event northeast of Toronto. A huge…

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October 12, 2022October 13, 2022

Roaring Crowds & Whirling Cyclists in Six Days of Track Racing

By Michael Barry In Ghent, Belgium, the low thunder of the cyclists racing into the wooden banking of the velodrome is unheard over the festivities in the track center. A…

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September 6, 2022January 10, 2023

Youth Rising

By Michael Barry Traditionally, the path to becoming a professional cyclist with a long and successful career followed a structured progression. Skipping steps in that process was thought to be…

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August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

Team Ontario Wins the Road Race at Canada Games 

Congratulations to Mariposa riders, Hudson Lubbers and Jack Ciotlos for representing Ontario at the Canada Games in Niagara last week. The team rode well as they supported their teammate, David Olejniczak on his road…

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August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

Via Italia Criterium

Mariposa Team racers Ashlin Barry and Hudson Lubbers finished 3rd and 8th in the Pro 1/2 Via Italia Criterium in Windsor ON.   Watch the post race interview with the podium finishers. Photography…

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August 17, 2022August 18, 2022

2022 Midweek Criterium Series Finale

Criterium season is winding down and we’ll soon be on our cyclocross bikes racing through the woods and scurrying up mud slick hills.  Midweek Cycling Club hosted their series final Tuesday night.  Ashlin Barry…

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August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

Vintage Bicycle Feature: Praderio. Gallarate, Italy. 1950

Gino Bartali’s frustrations with the Italian back-peddling derailleurs encouraged him to approach the Vittoria Company, makers of the Margherita derailleur, and propose that he finance the production of a derailleur…

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June 28, 2022June 29, 2022

Hot Summer Crit Racing

For many reasons Criterium racing is one of the best development pathways for North American bike racing. Short circuits make for easier road closures, spectators can watch the peloton repeatedly whizz past while an…

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