Matthew Pioro

Definitely stuff this guidebook in your handlebar bag.

MyCampy is a practical and innovative app from the Italian component maker.

Riding the previous iteration of the hoops and the new Shamal Ultra on back-to-back days on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands

Both former pro Michael Barry and Trek-Segafredo team member Ryder Hesjedal spoke out against the technology that was being tested by WorldTour cyclists

A speedy bike, even when you’re slowing down.

Potenza is meant to go head to head with Shimano’s Ultegra groupset.

In a few weeks, you’ll start seeing Campagnolo disc brakes on the bikes of WorldTour teams.

It has a rundown of the equipment you need and strategies for making your way through a city.

These paw protectors are hefty where they need to be without being bulky.

My praise for Opus Allegro 2 went public before I had finished testing the bike. This past summer, I got a preview of Opus’s new endurance lineup.

Leah Kirchmann discusses Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Omloop van het Hageland, her new team and the season ahead.

The Canadians of Direct Energie, Antoine Duchesne and Ryan Anderson, are kicking off Classics season with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Saturday and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne Sunday.

Hugo Houle has ridden Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne the past five years. His team will be looking to him to help its leaders.

Soon after Michael Woods finished fifth overall at the Tour Down Under, he and his wife Elly were facing jet lag and lost luggage in Girona.

Monique Sullivan and Kate O’Brien are fast on the boards and quick witted when chatting by the track.

Mattamy Homes committed to 12 months of support for the national track cycling team in its leadup to the Rio Olympics.

A quick look at the Opus Allegro 2, the new endurance bike from the Montreal-based company.

On Thursday, Kyle Douglas, the head of 3 Rox Racing, presented not one mountain bike team, but two.

Help a roadie look good with these performance jerseys.

Cycling and coffee are the perfect pair. These gifts deepen the connection between bike and bean.

There’s something iconic about a child finding a bike with bow on it by the Christmas tree. You should make that happen this season.

Stuff for the guy or gal who likes to shred.

Evan McNeely doesn’t like knee warmers. In September 2014, he posted a photo of the gap of skin between socks and knee warmers on Twitter with the line, “This is why I don’t understand knee warmers.”

You may not always be the best judge of what bike is best for you. Let me explain what I mean. I’ve always identified with the climbers.

Recently, the temperatures let me get all summer with Giordana’s FR-C (Forma Red – Carbon) jersey and bibs.

Last summer, when Giant unveiled its revamped Defy lineup, every carbon-fibre bike had disc brakes. The Taiwan-based company didn’t mess around: they committed to rotors on their performance endurance machines.

This year, Norco has updated the Tactic and added disc-brake models, including the Norco Tactic SL Disc Ultegra RS685.

Laura Brown discusses the making of the video meant to lift the spirits of a recovering Hugo Barrette.

One of my first rides on the De Rosa Idol was at a weekly hammerfest. What could be a better test than a ride in which everyone is givin’er or doing everything to hang on?

“When a rider comes in, it goes from calm to tense pretty quick.”

Following Ruby West’s weekend of racing in Cincinnati, the under-23 national cyclocross champion discusses one of her biggest races to date and the muddy slide-fest on on the Pan American championships course.

Zipp 404 Firestrike carbon clincher Zipp launched the 404 Firestrike wheels in 2014. With the debut of those 58-mm-deep hoops, the company drew upon the 404 Firecrest and added new features.

In some ways, Black Inc is a fairly new company. You may have seen its wheels appearing in MEC stores this past spring.

Ruby West’s ‘cross success followed a few weeks after her under-17 squad took the team pursuit win at the track cycling nationals.

When Quinton Disera crossed the line, he was not only ahead of all the other junior men, but most of the under-23 men as well.

Geoff Kabush was frustrated with his second-place finish at the 2015 Canadian cyclocross championships in Winnipeg.

Raphaël Gagné has had a really good year. The national CX title is the ‘cherry on the cake.’

“Once you find where you’re at on the day, then you just have to accept it and enjoy the ride. And, let the guys know it’s on.”

This October, Lori-Ann Muenzer is getting inducted into two hall of fame: the new Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

I didn’t think rain would be part of the test. One week ago, wind and rain hit Boulder City, Nev., about 40 km west of Las Vegas. Before I left home, I figured I could save space in my bags by leaving the rain stuff at home. When does it ever rain in Vegas?

Two days after Véronique Fortin won a stage race, she was called to an emergency C-section. On Sunday, she won Haute Route Dolomites Swiss Alps, a seven-day event that features many days with elevation gains of more than 3,000 m.

On Sunday, when Clara Hughes revealed for the first time that she failed a doping control in 1994, one other […]

The afternoon before the start of the Tour of Alberta, Ryder Hesjedal was already talking about the races that would […]

For the third year in a row, the Tour of Alberta will draw pro riders from North America and abroad to the province […]

I have been testing the the Endura Luminite II jacket for almost a year. And by testing, I mean punishing the waterproof shell.

At the end of June, I attended the launch of the 2016 Giant TCR Advanced SL 0 in Mallorca, Spain. During the event, and between rides on the new bike, I spoke with designer Erik Klemm. Klemm was behind many of the refinements of the TCR, which has been in Giant’s lineup since 1997.

I figured the former pro rider and experienced group-ride leader (this past June, he led a tour over gravel roads in the Catalan countryside) would have some tips for a successful century ride.

One of the climbs on the Pan Am Games road race circuit comes soon after riders enter Toronto’s High Park. Check out this video to learn more about the climb.

Before the camera started rolling for the video below, I joked with Jasmin Glaesser that she’d done, or would do, […]

The day after Hugo Houle rode to gold at the Pan Games time trial race, the pro rider looked back on […]

From fourth, to second, to fifth, a personal best in individual pursuit, kilo and flying lap—Rémi Pelletier-Roy fought throughout his omnium run, right through the final points race of the competition.

In a dramatic race, the Canadian women’s team pursuit squad won gold and set a new Pan Am record of […]

Monique Sullivan continued her gold-winning ways on the second day of track competition at the 2015 Pan Am Games. She […]

Hugo Barrette set a Canadian record, had crash and got relegated all before the men’s sprint quarterfinals. If there’s a track cycling equivalent to a Gordie Howe hat trick, Barrette might have found it on Day 2 of the 2015 Pan Am Games track competition.

On Friday, the UCI announced that Katusha rider Luca Paolini has been provisionally suspended. The suspension comes after a sample […]

I was weaving all over the road. It wasn’t fatigue. The grades on the Passo Sella, which average 7.9 per […]

The Diadora Vortex Pro road shoes have the company’s Net Breathing system on the sole. It features 11 mesh sections that allow a good bit of air in to cool your feet. Even with these airier sections, the sole is stiff enough to make sure the force you pump out is channelled efficiently into moving the bike forward.

At the 2014 Tour de Suisse, Bill Miller, Giant global category manager for components, sat across from the team doctor […]

A day before Giant debuted its wheels in Mallorca, Spain, someone from the company told me that the new hoops […]

Earlier this week, Giant Bicycles premiered its the latest version of its TCR line, on the Island of Mallorca. The flagship model is the 2016 Giant TCR Advanced SL 0. The Taiwan-based company presents this bike as a racing, climbing all-around machine. On the pro side, such as the riders of Giant-Alpecin at the upcoming Tour de France, it’s for the general classification rider. For you, it’s a high-performance bike that can help you get to the top of a col, such as Mallorca’s Puig Major, quicker and make for a lively ride as you twist your way back down.

International politics kept Bob Matthews out of cycling. The track rider had been preparing for years for the 1980 Games in Moscow.

A little more than a week after the Giro d’Italia wrapped up, Ryder Hesjedal was at his European home base […]

Early this season, I got a Scoop Shallow Race saddle to test. It’s made by Fabric, a company based in […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZAOE9t6BU Shimano, which keeps many Canadians pedalling, is working to help riders explore the roads around its Canadian home. Shimano […]

Think about the last group ride you did. There were some logistics involved: where to meet, the route, when and […]

On a cold, very cold, day in February, I got my bike ready for spring. I carried my machine, to keep it out of the snow, to big red truck parked a few step from my home. I knocked on the back doors. Nick Di Cristofaro, Toronto’s first Velofix owner/operator, opened the doors and invited me in.

On Wednesday, Hugo Houle arrived at the hotel near San Remo, three days ahead of his first Grand Tour. The […]

This past March, Ryders Eyewear launched their new anti-fog lens collection. I got my hands on two pairs of Thorn models in February. It’s not often that I get equipment that I willfully try to make fail. Anti-fog? Whatever. I could get them to steam up.

Almost a week before the 2014 edition of Gent-Wevelgem, Eric Robertson and his girlfriend were looking for wild garlic along a path in Belgium. He was confident he’d find some. The weather had been warm and the edible wilds had been growing. Robertson, a Brantford, Ont., native who is the head chef at De Vitrine in Gent, planned to used the wild garlic in dishes at his restaurant that week.

It’s spring today. But some parts of the country have so much snow, they might still be on fat bikes […]

Cycling BC insurance was created specifically for that province’s riders. The organization is ready to export that plan to the rest of the country.

Gord Fraser, the cyclist from Ottawa who has more than 200 wins to his name, first went to Tucson, Ariz., […]

While U.S. team Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies and Team SmartShop have fairly high-numbers of Canadians on their rosters, there are other Canucks working south of the border.

Has U.S. pro cycling been infiltrated by Canadians? Team SmartStop, the top team of the 2014 UCI America Tour, has definitely benefited from its links to Canada.

When it comes to professional road cycling in the U.S., Canadians are there, at all levels. They ride, direct and manage. Yes, they’ve infiltrated, eh.

At this year’s track world championships, UCI president Brian Cookson said the Cycling Independent Reform Commission’s (CIRC) would reveal a […]

The SwiftCarbon Ultravox Ti is the company’s all–round race bike. It’s designed to climb well and behave well in sprints. They paid particular attention to handling, which is governed by the bike’s trail.

I did the bulk of my testing on the Opus Vivace 3.0 when most riders were hanging up their road bikes for the season. Winter was trying to make riding difficult, but I was watching the weather closely for openings. I was game to get on the bike as much as I could, not just in the name of research, but because it was so fun to ride. It has a great feel, making it a pleasure to take out on a lunch ride – even though I’d seem to spend most of the lunch ride suiting up – or out for hours.

After the events on Sunday in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, at the track cycling world championships, the UCI track season has come to […]

With the Oscars tonight, I naturally think of films about cycling. Not just classics, such as A Sunday in Hell (embedded below) or Breaking Away, but more recent films.

What’s the right point-of-view camera for you? The answer is easy: it depends. Like choosing a bike, you first need to decide what you want to do with the product and what specs are important. Below are three cameras that have a range of features. Each one will let you document your ride so you can show your friends, or the whole Internet, just how rad it was.

On Friday, the UCI announced that Montreal will host a cyclocross World Cup event during 2015-16 season. “I’m delighted the second round of the 2015-2016 UCI cyclocross World Cup will be taking us to Montreal,” said UCI President Brian Cookson. “It shows that cyclocross is becoming more international after Louisville hosted the UCI world championships for the first time in 2013. A new phase has now begun in North America with the first round of the UCI cyclocross World Cup to ever be organized in Canada. With Montreal following Las Vegas to open the season, these events are pushing back the discipline’s geographic boundaries.”

Two days before the men’s elite race at the cyclocross world championships, Canadian CX champion Mike Garrigan spoke about the upcoming event. Garrigan discusses the course in Tabor, Czech Republic, riding in Europe and shares a story of how things got scrappy at the hotel the Canadians are sharing with the Italian team.

Four days before the elite men’s world cyclocross championship race, Aaron Schooler spoke with Canadian Cycling Magazine from his home in Tübingen, Germany. The Edmonton native planned to drive to Tabor, Czech Republic the following day, which he figured would take him roughly six hours. It will be Schooler’s first time racing at Tabor, a World Cup venue and host of the worlds in 2010 where Zdeněk Štybar won the elite men’s race. Schooler brushed up on his knowledge of the course through video. “What I like doing, especially for races that have been World Cups before and that I haven’t been to is preview and re-watch old races to see what the course is like and what it could be like in different conditions,” he said.

At Sunday’s final cyclocross World Cup race in Hoogerheide, The Netherlands, Edmonton’s Aaron Schooler crossed the line in 55th place, Canada’s top finisher. The result, near the back of the field that included race winner Mathieu van der Poel, World Cup series winner Kevin Pauwels, and such CX stars as Sven Nyns and Lars van der Haar, doesn’t tell the whole story.

Shoshauna Routley had given herself an ultimatum for 2015. “I told myself that it was all or nothing,” she said. […]

Aaron Schooler, the Canadian rider with Focus CX in Germany, had a difficult December. “After the last couple World Cups in Belgium, I ended up getting a fairly large infection in my leg when I crashed multiple times on my knee,” he said. “Even though I had a nurse taking care of me, the repetitive racing in bad conditions led to it getting worse.

On Thursday, Twenty16 presented by Sho-Air released its 2015 roaster, which included Canadian Alison Jackson, a first-year pro. The triathlete, […]

In Spruce Grove, Alta.’s city hall, there were politicians, community representatives from various towns, race organizers, sponsors, and even fire fighters. They were there for Thursday’s announcement of the host communities for the 2015 Tour of Alberta. Ryan Anderson, the top-placed Canadian in the 2013 and 2014 editions of the TOA was also on hand. It was fitting, not just because of his successes in the race, but he grew up in Spruce Grove. The 27-year-old rider from Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies spent 18 years in the town roughly 35 km west of Edmonton.

After two years of Prairie-centric stages, the 2015 edition of the Tour of Alberta will take riders into the Rocky Mountains. The 2014 six-day race stayed out of the mountains, while the inaugural event lost its stage from Black Diamond, up Highwood Pass and on to Canmore because of flood damage caused earlier in 2013. Stage 3 of the 2015 race will run from Grande Cache through the Municipal District of Greenview to finish in Jasper National Park. Stage 4 will start in the town of Jasper and finish at the top of the Marmot Basin ski resort. The inclusion of these mountain stages came with the co-operation of federal body Parks Canada.

A moment after Davide Formolo took his seat, he was back up again. We was distracted by what we saw from the 17th floor of New York hotel in the Meatpacking District. “It’s the Statue of Liberty,” he said. Even though the 22-year-old rider from San Rocco di Marano di Valpolicella, Italy has been to New York before, as recently as this past October, he was excited to be back, to be in the U.S. for the Cannondale-Garmin team launch.

“I was there making everyone look good,” joked Ted King about his role in the Cannondale-Garmin presentation for the 2015 squad. On Wednesday, he and five of his teammates—Andrew Talansky, Ben King, Dan Martin, Davide Formolo and Joe Dombrowski—modelled the new kit and helped to kick on the new season. The racing gets started for King on Jan. 19 at the Tour de San Luis.

The recipe by Rosenberg is a bit of an indulgence for the holiday season. “Assembly is the trickiest part,” she says. “All the components are fairly simple: the filling is simple; the glaze is simple. The difficulty comes when you put it together. Try to make sure it’s not lopsided and that you chill it so the glaze goes on evenly. But, in the end, you’re going to eat it, so what’s most important is how it tastes.”

The team at 7mesh, a cycling clothing company based in Squamish, B.C., seems to operate with the same respect for the sport, but isn’t interested doing things as others have. Ian Martin, the vice-president of research and design at 7mesh, points to the fabrics used in most cycling clothing as a contemporary bit of cycling conservatism.

On a walk around the Mont-Sainte-Anne resort, not long before the 2010 cross country world championships, Geoff Kabush came across the sled dogs of Les Secrets Nordiques, which are kennelled near the mountain biking centre. Director Sam Smith was there and filmed the encounter.

Prevent saddle sores with Louis Garneau’s chamois cream. But if chafing does happen, address it with a skin repair gel by Assos. Likewise, keep your chain from degrading. Use a lube like the Bike Medicine’s hard-core Purple Extreme.

Schwalbe’s Procore features two narrow inner tires for mountain bike wheels (26″, 27.5″ or 29″). Each inner tire sits on a rim and holds pressures between 55 and 85 psi. On top of the Procore inner tire is a regular tubeless-compatible tire, which can be run at 10 to 20 psi. The two-chamber system means you can get great traction from the low outer pressure, and reduce the likelihood of getting a pinch flat with the high inner pressure. Just one valve manages the air in both chambers.

While Campagnolo continues to refine its electronic gruppos, it’s still invested in the mechanical. This year the Italian company released the 11-speed Super Record RS, its top-end, battery-free groupset. The components combine performance with a rich racing heritage.

The Polar V650 bike computer uses a barometer to get altitude data, which is more accurate than GPS. You can match this head unit with Kéo Power pedals to keep track of the watts you are pushing on the right and left cranks.