Todd Aalgaard

Toronto cyclists, heads up: if you’ve left derelict or neglected bikes of any kind locked to a ring-and-post, city staff may be taking it.

Cyclocross season came to its apex in Ontario on Sunday, as the Ontario Cyclocross Championships rolled out in St. Catharines, Ont.

Montrealers, take note: as of the posting of this article, you have a little more than seven hours to make use of the city’s Bixi bike-sharing service before the season closes.

At around 0:15 in this video, you can actually feel that defining sense of exhilaration at the heart of cyclocross.

For many Canadian cyclists, something very satisfying happens when they saddle up as the temperatures plummet. When the snow starts falling, these riders don’t retreat.

In mid-December, Nauss Bicycle Shop, a 46-year fixture of Agricola Street, will be shuttering its doors and hanging up its bikes.

As grief pours out around the world following Friday’s coordinated attacks in Paris, some of those who have taken to social networking to share their thoughts are cyclists.

After competing at the U19 world championships in Richmond, Virginia this year, the young B.C. rider makes his move from Trek Red Truck to H&R Block Pro Cycling next season.

According to Shimano, the brand’s new RP9 shoes — for “road performance” — are “designed to bridge the gap between competitive level performance and new road cyclists,” with efficient power transfer and breezy comfort.

The city of Victoria, says mayor Lisa Helps, has one objective when it comes to developing local bike infrastructure: to make the beautiful British Columbia capital “the best small cycling city in the world.”

Team TIBCO-SVB is the latest pro squad to announce its 2016 roster, with some of those who built its powerful 2015 season returning to the California-based team.

As part of a study about the injury rates sustained by cyclists, researchers at UBC and U of T determined that gender plays a significant role.

Back in September, a group of more than 50 cyclists took to the streets of Ottawa, following several different routes across the city.

United Healthcare has announced its women’s roster for 2016, following a successful 2015 in global competition. In 2016, with Annie Ewart on board, the team hopes to repeat that winning chemistry.

With the days getting steadily darker, it’s not just visibility that’s a concern for some cyclists. To many, the best means of seeing and staying seen — namely, lights — can be a problem, too.

As announced earlier this week, 2016 will be the last season for Fabian Cancellara. The 34-year-old rider dropped the news at the Swiss cycling awards.

2013’s Tour of the Gila didn’t go as well for Joëlle Numainville as it could have. That year, she crashed out of the competition, sustaining a concussion that took seven months to be diagnosed.

Six and a half years and 38 countries later, Mike Boles, the Saskatchewan rider who set out on a ’round-the-world tour, has returned home to Regina.

On September 3, 2014, the city of Lethbbridge, Alta. was the site of the first stage of that year’s Tour of Alberta — a hilly, 143-kilometre route that was won by Germany’s Ruben Zepuntke, who would go on to win third overall for the Tour.

After a stellar career as one of the world’s top ‘cross riders, Belgium’s Bart Wellens, a two-time world champion, bowed out in fine — and fitting — style Sunday at the Superprestige Ruddervoorde.

Remember that absolutely mind-boggling “backwards bike” we showed you a few months ago? The one declared to be utterly un-rideable?

With the federal government planning to open the country’s doors to 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end, a collective of Halifax-based organizations have teamed up to make their welcome a warm one.

For the last 26 years, the Iceman Cometh Challenge has been among the highest, most prestigious points on the U.S. mountain bike calendar for North American elite riders.

In some parts of the country, cyclists are battening down the hatches, readying their indoor trainers, and preparing in general for the onslaught of winter.

A couple of days ago, Colin Basran, the mayor of Kelowna, B.C., started his day in a somewhat unconventional way for a politician.

It’s hard to deny that this is the next level of artistic talent, especially in geographical terms.

It’s presumed that helmet laws mean lower rates of injury requiring hospitalization among Canadian cyclists. According to a study published recently by the University of British Columbia, though, that’s simply not the case.

With most headlines connecting sports and doping having been rife with controversy, here’s something you may have never expected to read: doping, in motivating the chronically lazy to stick to a training plan, may have benefits.

For Gatineau, Que.’s Santé Universelle/Marin Bikes pro cycling team, 2015 has proven to be a resoundingly successful first season.

When its 2016 roster kicks off the season’s competition, Ridebiker Alliance p/b Sho-Air is going to boast a fresh generation of Canadian talent among its ranks.

It’s been a frightening, painful couple of months for Lotto-Soudal’s Kris Boeckmans, who crashed out of the 2015 Vuelta a España with brutal fashion during stage 8 — a heartbreaker of a wipe-out that forced him to be kept in a medically-induced coma for a week.

In Botwood, Nfld., there’s a new program designed to get kids reveling in all things mountain bike, giving them a foot in the door of sports in general.

When the greens and blues of summer give way to orange foliage and chilly, silver skies, the weather when you first leave on your ride may not be the same weather that takes you home.

After only 44 days, Toronto cyclist John Murtaugh has crossed North America, his rubber finally having met its destination.

n 2014, Hamilton, Ont. installed new bike lanes on Cannon Street, and the numbers recorded after a year of use demonstrate that it’s doing what it was meant to — namely, provide cyclists with a dedicated corridor through the city.

“… but what about Adam de Vos?” That might be the question you find yourself asking as you read about the U23 athletes returning for 2016 to H&R Block Pro Cycling, details that were released by the team within the last couple of days.

Hearing some of the experts in this video describe the process of fitting a rider for a cyclocross bike, you can get a sense of what happens when a relatively new discipline comes up against time-tested traditions influenced by other approaches of cycling.

As she prepares for CincyCX on Oct. 31 in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the most prestigious cyclocross events on the American competitive calendar, it helps that LUNA Pro Cycling’s Maghalie Rochette feels no regrets about her last major race.

Canada’s Gabrielle Pilote-Fortin, one of the country’s top U23 talents, is making the leap to Bigla for the 2016 season.

On May 31, as Canadian Cycling Magazine reported last summer, two prominent Whistler, B.C.-based cyclists — Ross Chafe and Kelly Blunden — were killed as they descended from the Whistler ski resort, after a vehicle crossed the centre line and hit both of them.

On Thursday and Friday of this week, Vancouver’s new bike registration program, recently launched, continues to visit locations throughout the city.

Sunday, Oct. 25 concluded the Canadian cyclocross championships in Winnipeg with the grand prix, and what a world-class race it was.

It’s impossible to deny: in Canada, cyclocross is here, and it’s here to stay. And last weekend at The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba was a testament to the thrilling staying power of this intrepid cycling discipline.

When it comes to preparing to ride in a major ‘cross competition — or any ‘cross competition, for that matter — Canada’s Craig Richey is about as methodical as it gets.

As the Canadian Press published earlier this week, cyclist Dominic Picard has been suspended for violating anti-doping rules — a penalty that will keep him out of the saddle competitively for nearly four years.

This week, Cycling Canada announced the domestic competitive calendar for 2016 — and as ever, the year to come is going to cook, from the looks of things.

It’s not been without its share of controversy for Toronto-area cyclists, but according to the numbers, at least, the city’s new waterfront bike route is a resounding success.

It’s getting closer. If you’re in Winnipeg, you might already be feeling it in the air: the electric anticipation of the Canadian cyclocross calendar’s number one domestic event.

Along with the disclosure of the Tour de France’s route in 2016, more information has been revealed about next year’s top stage races.

Like many competitive riders this time of year, Geoff Kabush finds his heart pulled in two directions when it comes to training, forcing him to make the tough choice between cross-country and cyclocross — the twin cycling loves of his life, he says.

In Ontario, it’s about to be a lot easier for cities to develop sustainable, progressive bike infrastructure, thanks to some top-level help from the provincial government.

Most of us already know this, but with October upon us — for cyclists, right smack in the midst of some of the most dangerously dark months when it comes to questions of safety and visibility — it doesn’t hurt to share reminders.

To mark his retirement, Cannondale-Garmin rider — and Cannondale’s brand ambassador — Ted King is being sent on his way in fine, individualized style.

It’s not often that the fortunes of the automotive industry have an impact on pro cycling, but in the case of Volkswagen and its ongoing — and very publicly damaging — emissions crisis, there well may be.

You’ve heard of “bait cars,” right? The subject of those hilarious dash-cam videos on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia that depict exactly what happens when you ‘jack a vehicle?

After mostly destroying the competition in the mountain bike scene, Canada’s Raphael Gagne isn’t hanging up his helmet for the season just yet.

On Sunday, Nov. 1, Maple Ridge, B.C.’s Local Ride Racing will be hosting the 2015 edition of the annual Pumpkin Cross, happening at the North Alouette River Greenway Park.

Last February, Canada’s Mical Dyck turned in one of cyclocross’s top results at the world championships, roaring from a fourth-to-last starting position to take twelfth place by the race’s end.

If you’re like us, you might just be the tiniest bit excited that cyclocross season is here and cooking. And yes, that was definitely an understatement.

Last June, Wounded Warriors Canada took to the streets of Europe as a squad, riding from Vimy Ridge to Groesbeek Cemetery in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

A few thousand kilometres later, he’s almost there. Back in September, Toronto’s John Murtaugh set out from his home city on a long, ambitious ride across North America, bound for Mexico.

Nathalia Cardozo, an environmental studies student at the University of Prince Edward Island, was somewhat surprised when she saw how many bikes are on the streets of PEI.

Since 2012, Erace Cancer Cycling Team has dedicated itself to the hardest of climbs.

For cyclists — especially those whose idea of a great bike ride involves crossing a variety of wildly different terrains — the result of B.C.’s natural mish-mash of terrain can be heavenly.

Day four of the Canadian track championships on Saturday was for the event’s masters and U17/U19 classifications, and it was marked by close battles in all fields of competition.

Saturday marked the official unveiling of the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame, whose newly permanent home adorns the walls of the lobby at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre.

If you’re in the Toronto area this Thanksgiving Monday, there’s more than just stuffing yourself to look forward to.

Let’s face it: when it comes to cycling, a good, hard climb isn’t for everybody. And in very, very few places is that more true than on the steep, thigh-grinding grades of the streets of North Vancouver.

A tight, intense pair of events at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre conferred Red and White jerseys on Jasmin Glaesser and Remi Pelletier-Roy on Friday, as the omnium series wrapped up at the Canadian track championships.

Canada’s top track riders are no doubt noticing that this year, there’s a thicker, more intense field of competition at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre awaiting them.

Thursday’s second day of competition at the Canadian track championships proved many, many things, and in exhilirating, track-rumbling fashion. Among those was the sprint supremacy of Hugo Barrette and Monique Sullivan.

Wednesday’s first day of competition at the 2015 Canadian track cycling championships saw a few gilded names in the Canadian cycling scene earn red and white jerseys — and advance Canada’s Olympic cause as Rio 2016 draws ever nearer.

The Mattamy National Cycling Centre has certainly turned some heads so far. And some wheels.

Canadian women managed to break into the top 10 following an intense day’s competition on Sunday with Maghalie Rochette’s time, while Raphael Gagne placed 15th.

This past weekend, the grasslands of Centennial Park in Etobicoke, Ont. hosted Toronto Cross, presented by Midweek Cycling Club, which got underway on Sunday.

Further announcements about the teams of 2016 have been made, with particular interest this time for Canadian cycling fans.

Eight-time Tour de France stage winner Marcel Kittel has been announced as the latest addition to Belgian team Etixx-QuickStep, starting in 2016 and continuing through the 2017 seasons.

Look at the autumn clouds gathering wherever you are in the country, take a deep breath, and remind yourself of […]

After yesterday’s first day of competition at the KMC Cyclocross Festival at Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, Canadian riders once again managed to break into the top 10 standings of a major event in the fall-friendly cycling discipline.

Last weekend’s “day without cars” in Paris, France opened the streets to cyclists in unprecedented ways, making the city a veritable playground for anyone — of any age — in the saddle.

Held near Pittock Dam, a location for cyclocrossers described as “infamous,” That Dam ‘Cross Race wheeled out on under chilly, blustery conditions at the Pittock Conservation Area in Woodstock, Ontario on Saturday, October 3.

When it comes to multi-day rides that take cyclists through some of Canada’s most pristine, stunning scenery, it’s hard to beat the Tour de Cabot.

At the end of September, the second annual Ride Through the Rockies took a group of 26 riders on a 375-km circuit, starting in Cochrane, Alberta, passing through Canmore, Lake Louise, Kananaskis, and finally back to the starting point.

Sagan’s injuries sustained during the crash forced the Slovakian rider to abandon the Vuelta, after the Tinkoff-Saxo rider held a commanding lead for much of the stage.

On Saturday, a plan to have several of the world’s top BMX riders test out the new Rio 2016 track stalled, with the event now pushed back to Sunday.

On September 20, a squad of 21 riders set out from Port Alice to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, B.C., riding south.

Resting on Toronto’s Lake Ontario waterfront, the grounds of Ontario Place can be a picture of serenity. On Saturday, though, when Red Bull Race the Place hits the asphalt, it’s likely to be anything but.

With a new bike lane on Hollis Street in Halifax now open, local Nova Scotia cyclists are already encountering a headache all too common in urban centres.

Do you have about $70,000 kicking around? Because if so, and if you’ve got an equally-robust sense of adventure to balance out your bank account, a Canadian adventure cycling company has announced the ultimate expedition on two wheels.

With the Shimano Canadian Cyclocross Championships just a few weeks away, returning to Winnipeg between October 23 and 25, Belgium-based Ridley Bikes — with the support of MEC — has been named the event’s official bike partner.

The wind-down of the 2015 season has brought Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies even more prestigious recognition. In UCI America’s Tour standings, the team caps off another year with top rankings.

On Saturday, October 3, the International Mountain Bicycling Association is encouraging Canadian families to take their kids for a ride.

In a huge, wide-reaching move, seventeen leading bike manufacturers have recalled 1.5 million bikes, officials with the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association announced.

The second day of racing at the Gran Prix of Gloucester in Gloucester, Mass. was even dustier than the first. But like that first day of competition, it wasn’t enough to slow down the competitors taking to the dirt on America’s Atlantic coast — at least not too much.

In Charlottetown, fewer tickets were issued over the course of the summer in response to bike helmet infractions, the CBC reported. Why? Because it wasn’t a priority for authorities.

It was wet, rainy, and generally speaking, not the sort of weekend that might make a spectator think that the year’s best BMXers would be turning in an incredible performance.

This time of year, cycling becomes about getting ready for the darker, colder months ahead.

With the usual late-season shakeup nearing its climax — “silly season,” it’s called — there’s news of at least one more major signing, joining a world-class cyclist with the ranks of a world-class team.

With a summit 1,449 metres above Deep Cove, just outside North Vancouver, B.C., Mt. Seymour is a cyclist’s paradise — especially this time of year.