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Posted May 31, 2011 at 04:49 AM
With winter weather well upon us, the days shortening and temperature gauge dropping, getting out on the treadlie can become more difficult. Yet as the European Summer racing Season starts and nights are spent watching the Tour these coming months are the most important for any local cyclist wanting to do well in our local summer crits or various sportive’s like the Audax Alpine Classic or the Degani 3 Peaks Challenge. Time invested now will… continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2012 at 09:44 AM
One of the great things about being part of the Wattbike community is seeing Tweets and Facebook updates telling us how much people have beaten their personal bests by on a Wattbike, or better still telling us how much faster they have gone in a race, a sportive or a triathlon after a good block of training on a Wattbike. This kind of sharing of experiences and training data is the kind of stuff that gets us out of bed in a morning and puts… continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2012 at 12:40 AM
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Posted Dec 08, 2011 at 09:53 AM
Great news that GreenEDGE cycling have been awarded World Tour status for 2012, it will be interesting to see how they fare in the big one day races and the Grand Tours. The team have linked up with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and will be using their base in Varese, Italy to prepare the riders for the upcoming season. The AIS building in Varese is one of the highest spec fitness and testing facilities in the world and of course, has a… continue reading
Posted Dec 06, 2011 at 09:15 AM
We got some great news from a young track cyclist in New Zealand this past weekend, Jen Muhl took part in her first event at U-19 level at the 2012 Oceania Track Championships in Invercargill, New Zealand. The competition sees riders from New Zealand and Australia compete across all Olympic track disciplines at both senior and under-19 level. For Jen it was the first time she had mixed it up with senior riders and put in an impressive performance.… continue reading
Posted Nov 02, 2011 at 12:00 AM
We have put together all the Wattbike training locations around Australia on a map. If you know of any more please let us know. If you are looking at purchasing a bike these venues offer a great way to see what the bike is all about. Good luck and happy training!
Link: http://g.co/maps/3mdcy
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Posted Oct 10, 2011 at 04:52 PM
Wattbike sport scientist, Eddie Fletcher caught up with Jimmy Watkins the USA Olympic track cyclist last week. Jimmy does some of his training on a Wattbike Pro training out of Fire Station 55 in Lebec, California where he is a full time fireman working 48 hour shifts! Jimmy reckons that ‘the Wattbike is by far the best training tool I have. Working as a firefighter full time as well as living 2.5 hrs from the nearest track I rely heavily on it… continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2011 at 01:23 PM
We dropped off four Wattbikes with Newcastle Falcons Rugby Union club a couple of months ago and if you recall, the players were all keen to jump on to try to outdo each other on who can get the biggest peak power. Well, we’ve now got some scores from a few players and have entered these onto our Wattbike Ranking system. The three players have all made the top 25 in our rankings and we suspect there could be more in the future! You can add your… continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2011 at 02:51 PM
Great news to hear that Garmin-Cervelo pro Carla Ryan will once again represent Australia in the 2011 World Road Race Championship on 24th September. Check out a recent interview we did with her for the Wattbike Blog.
Carla recently sent us these photos of her training on her Wattbike…
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Posted Sep 01, 2011 at 01:04 PM
This is a really exciting development for us at Wattbike, we’re now an Official Sponsor of The Alpine Challenge. The Alpine Challenge is a 4 stage Alpine event which follows a similar format to the London-Paris, both of which organised by HotChillee Events. The event is based out of the beautiful lakeside town of Annecy in the Savoie and the scenery and riding is breathtaking every day. We’ll have a couple of guys at the event next week… continue reading
