Sunday will see the launch of the Skyride series with Skyride Manchester. The Skyrides see Sky and British Cycling teaming up to provide an opportunity to ride around the centre of Manchester, Glasgow, Leicester and London without the traffic or pollution. Along the route will be a series of different events, with a chance to ride through the velodrome, a family section, the go loud tunnel and Albert… Read full post
I caught the "Pause for Thought" feature on Radio 2's Wake up to Wogan, and although it started with one of those Wogan links where they are having a conversation about something completely staged – in this case how fit Wogan is looking – then seemlessly drop into the visiting speakers thought, it hit a nerve with me today. The speaker today was Sarah Joseph, editor of emel, the Muslim lifestyle… Read full post
Ben went up to Manchester Velodrome last Friday for the DHL Sprint School where the young athletes were practicing the Team Sprint and Kierin on the track. They also had a session on the Wattbikes where up and coming BC riders Helen Scott & Chris Lyte gave the guys some tips for the 2 events especially on their starts, griping the bars, their position on the bikes and using their body weight to… Read full post
Setting up the Wattbike tent at the Mont Ventoux étape Wattbike at L'Etape du Tour Mondovélo under the sunshine of Mont Ventoux Wattbike France launched the Wattbike at L'Etape du Tour Mondovélo to the thousands of the competitors who came to attempt one of the most famous and tricky mountain stages of the Tour de France, Mont Ventoux. It was a very busy few days where 8500 cyclosportifs… Read full post
Triathlon World August 2009 Have just seen the coverage of the Wattbike in the August edition of Triathletes World. The bike gets a good write up and there is a nice image. They do a section at the end of the piece where they outline if the item is essential, and if there is an alternative. Was obviously disappointed to see that they thought it was not essential, but then they have not seen the effects… Read full post
During the 90s I competed in triathlons around the world, most of the training I see still follows the same style to this day. For me going for a bike ride was simply that! I never knew information apart from MPH or heart rate from the monitors that I would use. If I wanted to check my cadence, I would count over 15 secs. Then we had turbo trainers, again offering not much more, apart from inaccurate… Read full post