With the spring thaw comes a new Canadian gravel season. In southern Ontario, Paris to Ancaster, Hell of the North and Substance Project gravel events are just around the corner.…
Mastering The Cobbled Classics
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 cobbled farm road, and then a…
Celebrating Women’s Professional Cycling: Breakaway Femmes Screening in Toronto
A documentary on the 1980s women’s Tour de France that includes some notable Canadian and American pioneers of women’s cycling Breakaway Femmes, is a film that tells the story of…
Riding to survive: Tales from the gruppetto
By Michael Barry We are no longer racing. The lead group has left us and is up the road, under the gaze of the cameras. For now, I ride alone…
An ex-pro asks: What’s the future of gravel racing?
By Michael Barry We can talk about ”the spirit’ but what actually lies ahead When gravel racing began to grow in popularity across North America a decade ago, and as…
Podcast: How a Toronto rider became a U.S. national champion
Ashlin Barry, son of two pro cyclists, is set for more cycling successes with the stars and stripes SUBSCRIBE TO CANADIAN CYCLING MAGAZINE PODCAST Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Android…
How a Tour de France rider prepares for the worst
What a professional cyclist has in the team car for every emergency on the road During the Tour de France, as in every professional bike race, the team cars will…
Winning UCI Gravel On A Steel Frame
You don’t expect steel bikes to be ridden to the top steps of the podium in international races any longer these days, but that’s exactly what happened last weekend when…
A rider’s long wait for the Grand Départ at the Tour
A professional cyclist’s longest days of the season are often the few days before a Grand Tour, where they sit around a hotel, often in a sleepy suburb or business…
UCI Blue Mountain Gravel World Championship Qualifier
At the top of the Niagara Escarpment, the peloton was corralled on the startline with Georgian Bay behind, a chairlift to the side and a gravel road that cut through…
How Cyclists are Transforming their Performances Using High Carb Fuel
The professional peloton has been consistently breaking speed records over the past two seasons in nearly every World Tour event. There’s no doubt that we have seen equipment and training improvements,…
Performance and the Power meter
How the advances of data analysis have helped…and hindered the sport Bike racers at every level of the sport are now breaking records in all disciplines whether the track, road…