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Category: History

November 29, 2022November 30, 2022

Vintage Bicycle Feature: Lugano. Paris. 1950

In the seventies, we had a good number of regular visitors to our shop on King Street in downtown Toronto. One of the regulars was a Frenchman, named Jean, who visited…

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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 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 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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May 28, 2022

Summer Books: Cycling

A history of the machine’s evolution, a dive into the thrills of bicycle racing and a meditation on the two-wheeled life. By Michael Barry for the Wall Street Journal A…

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May 19, 2022May 20, 2022

Inspiring The Next Generation

(Photo of Ashlin Barry and current Australian Road Champion and Ineos Pro Luke Plapp) Sporting idols and the events that bring them into town are essential to the growth of…

Posted in Events, History, Youth  •  1 Comment on Inspiring The Next Generation
November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

Hell of the North

The gravel racing season wrapped up last weekend with one of Canada’s original gravel races, The Hell of the North.  It was founded by Mike Barry Sr. in 1986 and…

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November 10, 2021November 11, 2021

Track Racing

The NCIM launched a new 12 race track series October 16 and the Canadian Junior National Track Championships will take place this weekend at the Mattamy Velodrome in Milton, Ontario. …

Posted in Events, History, Track Bicycle, Youth  •  5 Comments on Track Racing
October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

Cappellino, Cap, Casquette….

Rain tapped against the Team Sky bus window. The eight of us sat quietly in our chairs, some with their eyes closed and headphones on, others studying the race book…

Posted in Design, History, Photos, Racing, Stories, Youth  •  2 Comments on Cappellino, Cap, Casquette….
October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

INSIDE ROUBAIX

This Sunday, professional cyclists will compete in the 2021 Paris-Roubaix classic.  With severe rain and wind in the forecast and kilometres of cobbles, it is bound to be a dramatic race.…

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September 16, 2021September 16, 2021

Shifting Gears: Life and Work in the Bike Lane

By Daniel Sandler Photography by Jody Wilson Last year, my annual physical revealed that I’m in the best shape of my life (since high school, anyway). Not bad, I thought,…

Posted in Favourite Rides, Health, History, Stories  •  1 Comment on Shifting Gears: Life and Work in the Bike Lane

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