DerailedUK "at" the Worlds

According to an e-mail we got sent, the site was down yesterday. We didn't notice because we were too busy not thinking about cycling, but you can rest assured that we won't let the whole situation affect our not-quite-daily update schedule for austere cycling "news".

Anyway, the World Championships are here! Which means the cycling season is almost over! Which means we have to find something interesting to fill the website with for the next five months! Cripes!

Still, let's enjoy it while it's here. Tomorrow (that's Wednesday) is the Women's Elite Time Trial and the Men's U23 Time Trial. That's good, because a whole day of watching time trials is bound to be interesting, right? And apparently grown women are still not as good at sports as little boys either -- the time trial distances being 26km and 40km respectively. Please, Jeannie Longo could beat any one of those kids riding the Men's U23 event, and we all know it.

Nicole Cooke is the big hope for the women's time trial, but we're expecting her to do much more in the road race. So we don't know who'll actually win this one, largely because there's absolutely no coverage of women's racing whatsoever, but we're betting on someone from a Slavic country. You heard it here first.

Tomorrow:
A better, less hastily written update, with actual funny bits and everything.

Next season:
We'll be writing lots more about women's cycling. Yeah!


Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

Things we hate so much we're not even going to link to them

  • Trust But Verify
  • Trek
  • Assos

Our e-mail inbox isn't just for Japanese gambling promotions and the latest advances in penis enlargement chemistry, you know

What's the word "derailed" got to do with bikes anyway?

  • Err... bikes have things called derailleurs? Apart from track bikes, which don't.

If derailleurs evolved from fixies, how come there are still fixies?

  • Survival of the fixest.


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