The Wattbike Blog
Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 28, 2010
The Wattbikes played their part in the Revolution 27. On the night of Revolution 27 the guys at the Manchester Velodrome used their Wattbikes to run a 250m team time trial, each rider chose to represent 1 of the 8 teams and then the combined times for the best adult, boy and girl were put together for that team. It was a hard fought event with Dynamo just coming out top with an overall time of 48.37seconds…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 26, 2010
There are a few good articles and mentions of Wattbike around the web, I have listed some of the interesting ones here: Norwich Wattbike League – photos and results at http://www.lotuscycleracing.org/ Altered Images doing some interesting things with the Wattbikes - http://www.alteredimages.tv/revolutions/ Lichfield Wattbike League Report on the British Cycling Website Riders out in force…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 19, 2010
Yesterday, we ran our first Triathlon coach session at our HQ in Nottingham. It was a very successful training session and attendees did a series of easy-to-run tests and that showed their pure power and power endurance. They also got the chance to record their cycling technique and then analyse it with their coaches. They took away the images of their cycling and tips on how to improve it so that…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 18, 2010
Friday Night Wattbike League - Lichfield Friday 5th January saw the return of the Friday night Wattbike league at Friary Grange Leisure Centre. The Wattbike league is based on the type of racing commonly seen at indoor velodromes and provides 5 different events for each competitor to participate in. Riders are split into 3 groups of 10 riders. The first race of the evening was the 500m time trial,…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 18, 2010
Wattbikes a winner! The ongoing inclement weather conditions failed to stop the recent craze of indoor cycling that is Wattbike racing. 22 riders gathered on Tuesday 12 January to participate in the first round of the Youth and Ladies Only event at Friary Grange Leisure Centre. Once riders had been split into 3 groups the races began with the 500m Time Trial. The Group 1 race was won by Georgia…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 14, 2010
Australian website Cycling Tips have a video and article with comments about doing a Ramp test on the Wattbike. There is some interesting information there. We will soon be launching our Training centre which will include information on testing and training, it will include all the formulae mentioned as well as information about how to do the tests safely. http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2010/01/how-to-do-a-map-ramp-test/…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 13, 2010
Altered images have posted three videos on Youtube about their AIRbiking - Altered Images Revolutions biking. It is a very good use of the Wattbikes in a gym environment.
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 13, 2010
Now all this snow is finally starting to melt I have dusted off the road bike - went out today but still abit dodgy (will give it a few more days I think, not worth slipping on the ice.) The Wattbike has been amazing over the last few weeks - I dont know how I would have been able to train with all this snow and it has been fun with all my mates coming round with there turbo's. They…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 12, 2010
There are a couple of videos of the Estonian Wattbike race league. If anyone knows what they are talking about please could you let me know.
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/varia/jalgrattasport/video-ain-alar-juhanson-naitas-voimu.d?id=28039219
http://sport.err.ee/index.php?0&popup=video&id=9191
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 12, 2010
A warm welcome to Debbie Flood who has started on the come back trail in an attempt to row at the London 2012 Olympics. She is one of Britain's greatest female rowers, with two Olympic Silver Medals, two senior World Championship Gold Medals and two Under 23 World Championship Gold Medals in her trophy cabinet. After Beijing she has taken some time out of training and is just trying to get back…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 12, 2010
On the front cover of Rowing and Regatta magazine is the caption - Row Better - Can cycling help? I am going to test that theory (and am hoping that it will!) Let me introduce myself. My name is Debbie Flood and I have been a member of the British Rowing Team for the last 12 years (wow time flys!) for which most of I was a full time Lottery funded athlete. After returning from the Beijing Olympics…
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 12, 2010
There is an interesting review of the group cycling classes that have been started at the Manchester Velodrome using the Wattbike on Phil's Road Biking Blog
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 11, 2010
Another cold and snowy day - did my proper watt bike session yesterday so had planned an easy outdoor one today then it started snowing again! - so it was watt bike and a movie! - never watch 'Saw' while cycling- scary!
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 08, 2010
My Google Alert for Wattbike spotted this today.
http://www.krakow-poland.com/Pictures/tag/wattbike/page/1
Apparently there is a Wattbike race night going on in Krakow.
The Wattbike Race Night is becoming like Fight Club!
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Posted by Chris Rowe on Jan 04, 2010
I'm not sure which was bigger news, Team Sky's official launch or news that Bradley Wiggins has been getting in extra training during the recent cold snap by bashing away on his Wattbike.... both revealed in central London today. The great and the good of British cycling were at Millbank Tower this lunchtime serenely overlooking the Houses of Parliament, the Eye and all the sights of London…
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