Todd Aalgaard

For amateur riders around the world, the Gran Fondo World Tour—whose first incarnation rolls out this year—offers a new approach to the long-haul, mass-participation cycling format.

Just a few days after World Bike to Work Day, Montreal once again got behind the spirit of promoting year-round cycling in its own, local way: by holding the third annual Vélo sous zéro

Ryan Roth leads in general classification, while Alison Jackson was the victor of the women’s race on Saturday, Feb. 13.

According to the rumblings of social media, Silber Pro Cycling riders had major success this weekend south of the border—again.

On Feb. 12, USA Cycling announced the USA Cycling Pro Road Tour, a combination of two competitive calendars: the National Racing Calendar and the National Criterium Calendar.

The Vancouver Island city of Courtenay, B.C. made progress this week towards realizing a long-standing vision for city transportation—one that would have the bike-friendly ideals of active transportation at its heart.

Take a look at how riders across Canada marked Winter Bike to Work Day the way they do best.

Based on how previous years have expanded the B.C. cycling club, hopes are high that this year’s offerings will result in even greater numbers, and a greater impact on west coast cycling.

The government of British Columbia will continue to support the development of cycling infrastructure in the province this year, it was announced.

The latest Canadian squad to bring new sponsorship and a new look to 2016 is out on the west coast, as B.C.-based Accent Inns/Russ Hay’s Cycling Team announces new presenting sponsorship.

As Canadian Cycling Magazine reported in May, Shimano Canada announced a partnership with Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism in Ontario, creating marked cycling routes.

Across Canada, riders take to the streets year-round, riding cruisers, Cannondales, mountain bikes and hybrids. For these riders, the cycling season never really ends.

This week, eOne Films, the production company behind “The Program,” released the film’s trailer for North American viewers.

Devinci Global Racing is hitting the trails in 2016 with a world-class roster, as Canadian powerhouse talent once again leads the downhill charge this season.

The global cycling body made the announcement on Wednesday.

The announcement comes hot on the heels of Bridie O’Donell’s ride, who set the current record on Jan. 22.

In Toronto, bike advocates and activists have been calling for a “minimum grid” of bike lanes: a total of 100 kilometres of protected, separated bike routes, threaded throughout busy downtown areas.

As the result of a partnership between Cannondale, Sugoi Apparel and 360fly, a team being touted as the most powerful cross country mountain bike team in North America has been created: Cannondale 360fly powered by Sugoi.

In 2016, Rise Racing is returning for the squad’s sophomore season, with a focus on growing the women’s cycling scene—particularly in Ontario and across Canada.

Cycling is fast becoming the training discipline of choice for the world’s top football players. Here’s how one former athlete revels on two wheels.

Vancouver Island might be one of the most beautiful places on Earth, cradled by B.C.’s west coast with the Pacific on one side and the Coast Mountains on the other.

Cycling along the eastern shores of Vancouver Island, B.C., between the North Island cities of Courtenay and Comox and the Southern Gulf Islands, is one of the most beautiful experiences a Canadian rider can have.

The president of the Qatar Cycling Federation detailed the reasons why the Belgium-based world-class team wasn’t invited to the Tour of Qatar on Sunday.

Previously reported by Canadian Cycling Magazine, an event that rolled out on Feb. 6 in Edmonton has all but redefined what can be done with a fat bike.

If cycling observers weren’t familiar with the term “technological fraud” before this week for some reason, they certainly are now.

With this season being the first for the UCI Women’s WorldTour, enshrining the talent of female riders in the pro pelton is a defining feature of 2016 in the cycling world.

UCI Continental squad Lupus Racing Team, it was announced this week, will be rolling out in Biemme Cycling Apparel colours this season.

In the Open Male division of the race, Canadian riders, competing in Kona Factory Team colours, turned in strong, podium-earning performances.

This week, as the brand marked its 30th anniversary, North Vancouver-based Ryders Eyewear launched its 2016 collection, expanding its range of anti-fog lenses with 12 new frames.

As the official bike sponsor of the newly-formed Cylance Pro Cycling Team, a squad that will start at the inaugural UCI Women’s WorldTour, Cannondale has taken its support of women’s elite-level racing to a new level.

The BMX world lost part of its pantheon this week, when Dave Mirra was found dead in Greenville, North Carolina on Thursday, Feb. 4. Mirra was 41 years old.

Considering the prominence of the Quebec city as a cycling haven, even in the colder months, the choice of Montreal as next year’s host city is notably appropriate

Innsbruck, Austria will be the site of the UCI road world championships of 2018, the UCI has announced.

At the Elite women’s competition of the UCI team time trial world championships, Zipp wheels played a critical supporting role—as good components do.

When it comes to the worst that cyclists endure on the streets, many of us may think we’ve seen it all—likely with good reason.

The freeride world lost a legend on Feb. 1, when Kelly McGarry, the rider famous for—among other things—defying gravity at the 2013 Red Bull Rampage, passed away in Queenstown, New Zealand.

After a motorized bike was discovered at the Heusden-Zolder U23 cyclocross world championships, officials with the UCI have promised more stringent checks going forward.

Ruby West, the young ‘cross specialist from Dundas, Ontario, shone in Canada’s colours this weekend at the world championships in Heusden-Zolder—and she’s also a powerful sign of things to come in Canadian cyclocross.

David Custer, a triathlete from Calgary, will be among a squad of eight riders biking through the African savannah in February, raising money for a purpose very dear—and deeply needed—in that part of the world.

Though this will likely be the last European ‘cross competition for Schooler, an athlete who has forged a sterling reputation in the discipline, he anticipates it being the kind of tough race he’s come to expect in Belgium.

For Cameron Jette, like Mical Dyck, there’s a sobering awareness that what the ‘cross courses of Heusden-Zolden, Belgium might offer on Jan. 31 are nothing like what many experience in Canada.

Canada’s Raphael Gagné has confirmed that he will be switching sponsors for 2016. The former Rocky Mountain Bicycles athlete will be racing with Cannondale.

In Zolder, Belgium, as competition for the UCI world championships of cyclocross roared, an announcement was made by the global cycling body about next season regarding one of the most notable season-opening events in the discipline.

GURU, it was announced this week, has embarked upon a partnership with the Cannondale Pro Cycling team, which features such riders as Canada’s Michael Woods.

In developing its upgraded cyclocross lineup, Trek, it seems, has been taking notes over the last season.

After a season that saw her second national cyclocross championship since 2012, Canada’s Mical Dyck looks ahead to the challenges waiting in Zolder—and beyond.

This June, as Canadian Cycling Magazine previously reported, a group of riders will take to the roads of Italy along the Adriatic coastline, tracing a route through some of the most historic landscapes of the 20th century.

When a simple appeal was made over social media on Jan. 26 for six bikes for the children of refugees, recently arrived in Calgary, it would have been heartwarming enough to have seen as many donations.

The Trek Canada mountain bike racing team has announced its roster for 2016, introducing—and in many cases, re-introducing—the trail-busting riders who will compete in the squad’s colours throughout the coming season.

This week, Cycling Sports Group, one of the leading global suppliers of bikes and accessories, announced that Hannah Parish will be the company’s director of marketing for North America.

On Jan. 23, several members of the Giant-Alpecin squad were hospitalized, after a car collided with them during a training ride in Spain.

Given the time-honoured relationship between cyclists and their coffee, learning that one of Canada’s top riders is a bean buff probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.

This summer, Canada’s premier cycling series, BC Superweek, returns to the asphalt of the British Columbia Lower Mainland, and the dates for this year’s competition have been officially released.

On January 24, Manitoba welcomed fat bike fever, when dozens of big-rubber riders descended on Fort Whyte Alive for the Winnipeg Whyteout, an endurance race that’s reportedly the first of its kind for the discipline in Manitoba.

A new bridge spanning the Rideau River in Ottawa, opened in December 2015, has proven to be a hit with riders in the nation’s capital, offering a dedicated crossing connecting key parts of the city.

A week before the Zolder, Belgium UCI cyclocross world championships, competition in Hoogerheide brought the 2015-16 World Cup season to a finely characteristic close for the discipline.

The Canadian athlete from Boucherville, Quebec made the announcement via his Facebook.

For commuting riders, one of the biggest dangers biking in big Canadian cities is the prospect of an open car door.

Calamity struck training Giant-Alpecin riders near Calpe, Spain today, when a crash took down six cyclists while the team’s training camp is underway.

This weekend, the Snow Bike Festival is underway in Gstaad, Switzerland, drawing a cross section of riders from throughout the world looking for a little big-wheeled, cold weather adventure.

This weekend, Gatineau Park in Ottawa is another place where you’ll see the distinctively wide tread of fat bikes rolling along the snowy trails of winter.

The ongoing drama surrounding sabotaged mountain bike trails in North Vancouver has reached its end—at least in a legal sense.

The UCI one-hour record has a new high water mark, set by Australian rider Bridie O’Donnell, who rode 46.882 kilometres in sixty minutes at Adelaide, Australia’s Super-Drome.

As yet another testament to the growing enthusiasm about Canadian fat biking, there’s a particular race series, made in Canada, that will be returning for its second full year of competition in 2016.

In the United States, the fourth season of national championship gran fondo racing will kick off under a different name: the Giordana Gran Fondo National Championship Series.

During stage 3 of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Australia, one of the day’s heroes came from an unexpected place, and that place was nowhere among the ranks of the riders themselves.

The Norco Factory Team, a cross-country standard-bearer of Canadian cycling, is returning for the 2016 season, Norco Bicycles officially announced.

With a revised kick-off date of Friday, July 15 announced for the PoCo Grand Prix, a new event during BC Superweek happening in Port Coquitlam, B.C., the inaugural competition has definitely received a boost of momentum.

At the sixth—and second-to-last—cyclocross World Cup of the 2015-16 season in France, Mical Dyck, riding for Naked Racing, turned in Canada’s best time with an 18th place finish.

What are you up to on the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 18? No plans just yet? That’s about to change.

The Giordana FormaRed Carbon bib tights, which I have been riding in this winter, are snug and warm, without any cumbersome bulkiness.

There’s one thing that unites us all as cyclists: a thirst for adventure. Perhaps the best expression of that adventure is to ride across Canada, the second-largest country in the world.

Cycle for Sight, a fundraising ride for the Foundation Fighting Blindness—and its fastest-growing fundraising initiative—is returning for another haul this year, and the details have been released.

Kim Kelln earned his veteran status, the CBC reported, by riding the streets of the Alberta city year-round for more than 10 years.

Last fall, the UCI announced that, for the first time ever, there will be a Women’s WorldTour featuring 17 events, gilded by some of the top riders and top teams on the planet.

During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, cycling was notably featured.

Late last year, we told you about a joint initiative, based in Halifax, to welcome refugees coming to this country from Syria in a way any cyclist can appreciate

As the countdown to Rio 2016 looms, there appear to be a few logistical headaches on the cycling front.

The top-ranked continental men’s and women’s team in America has a new name, as Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies welcomes a new title sponsor in Rally Health, a Washington, D.C.-based digital health company.

As previously reported by Canadian Cycling Magazine, Milton, Ont. will be hosting the Eastern Track Challenge, an event coming to the Mattamy National Cycling Centre next month.

Between two very different—but equally snowy and wintry—parts of Canada, the cold-weather appeal of fat biking, something skyrocketing in popularity in this country, is evident in ways as unique as the regions in which it’s been seen.

It’s not exactly indoor training she’s doing, but what a University of Regina professor is doing as part of her research might inspire a few ambitious ideas for trainer-bound riders this winter.

For five-time World Cup ski medalist Georgia Simmerling, cycling in 2016 is about more than cross-training in preparation for the sport with which she’s already synonymous.

KindHuman Bicycles, a brand that has a presence in Toronto, has always prided itself on taking the high road as both a bike company and an organization, the company says on its website.

‘We’ve arrived in Argentina to start a six-week cycling trip, but there’s one major problem.’

For Coryn Rivera of the United States, riding for UnitedHealthcare, the first stage of the Tour Femenino de San Luis, which rolled out on Sunday, Jan. 10, was hers for the taking.

The innovative tech company joins Specialized Bicycle Components in providing technical support for the team this season.

Hot off a great 2015 season on the provincial championship circuit, Cycling BC has announced the championship races of 2016, a series expected to draw some of the top emerging and recognized talent from across the province.

The New Year: although the first day of 2016 is a little more than a week behind us, the potential of it all is still fresh, the possibility looming, the days much more ample ahead than they are behind.

The country’s elite teams aren’t the only cyclists planning big things on two wheels this spring.

In the same way that laws passed recently in Ontario require a wider, safer berth be given cyclists when motorists pass, similar legislation may soon be coming to Manitoba, reports say.

East meets west with a new makeup for the Ontario squad, as both talent and sleek wheels from Alberta join forces with The Cyclery-Opus for 2016.

Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank is off to a roaring start in 2016 this weekend at the Tour Femenino de San Luis in Argentina—and it’s a high-profile opportunity to roll out not just a new look, but a new name.

Last year’s Tour de Delta was a phenomenal tour de force, bringing some of the pro scene’s best riders to the south coast of British Columbia for the annual, multi-day festival of sheer pedal power.

When we reported recently on Victoria’s Biketoria initiative, it was about a civic plan to ambitiously unfurl eight new bike lanes on downtown routes, polishing up the map of the B.C. capital city for cyclists.

Riders in Winnipeg are greeting the new year with some solid numbers, proving how investment in cycling infrastructure, especially in past years, has boosted their numbers on the Manitoba city’s asphalt.

During the holiday season, when others were sitting down to their ninth serving of eggnog or sleeping away the consequences of the Christmas turkey, Maggie Coles-Lyster had bigger things in mind.

In Vancouver, a cyclist is dead following a “bizarre incident” Wednesday night on the Seawall, reports say.

“Many young athletes,” managing director Zach Bell explained, “have other demands on their time and finances and we want these programs to be just as available to them.”