Minutes from leaving the house, everything starts to flow. My headlight opens the roads as the neighbourhood sleeps. One car passes me before stopping at a house to throw a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hell of the North 2022
The Ontario gravel season kicked off on Easter Sunday with the Hell of the North classic, founded by Mike Barry Sr. over 30 years ago, and now organized by Ed…
Tuning Up For A New Season
As the winter lifts over Europe and the professional peloton begin their racing season, they will be testing equipment and feeling faster as they transition from their training bikes to…
Running and Riding. How a Run Can Improve Your Cycling Fitness
In the cold winter months, cycling can be a challenge, especially if the ride is anything more than a commute to work, the shops, or school. The cold wind quickly…