The Wattbike Blog
Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 29, 2012
A busy month at Wattbike HQ and some eagle-eyed followers on Facebook and Twitter have spotted the Wattbike appearing in TV and in magazines. Here's where we've been over the last week or so... BBC1 - England v Wales - Six Nations Rugby - the Wattbike is used by the England national team in changing rooms and pitchside BBC2 - Horizon: The Truth About Exercise - Michael Mosley looks…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 27, 2012
‘How’s your holiday going?’ - it’s a question I’ve been asked a dozen times over the last week. I’ve been in Mallorca at the HotChillee Rendezvous at Stephen Roche Cycling Camp. I did see sun, sea and sand – I also saw the back of somebody’s wheel for much of the time I was going uphill on a bike here – a great week to find out where your…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 27, 2012
Today on the blog we hear from Non Stanford, an elite triathlete who recently finished 10th at the 2012 Cape Town ITU Sprint Triathlon African Cup. She's been training on a Wattbike during the cold UK winter and sent us this rather amusing but honest report - a great read:- ---------------- So I’m sitting here, on my sofa, knee deep in snotty tissues, massively regretting…
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Posted by Tom Crampton on Feb 25, 2012
I’m off and running…well…cycling to be more accurate! I only joined Wattbike in January, and before the month was out I had been signed up to cycle from the Tour de France prologue in Liege to the Olympic Park in London to support the Right to Play Bike Ride 2012. I do cycle, but I have never attempted anything beyond about 50 miles before so doing three days with at least 100 miles…
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Posted by Alex Skelton on Feb 23, 2012
Great video from our friends at Team Evolution featuring Sarah Cuthbert's rehab on a Wattbike. Sarah injured her knee in a training camp back in October of last year but is now well on her way back to recovery.
Good luck Sarah on your comeback!
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Posted by Ben Addison on Feb 22, 2012
Last week we had the guys from Exertrain up to Wattbike HQ in Nottingham. If you're not familair with the name, Exertrain are a UK manufacturer and supplier of the highest quality sports and fitness training equipment, delivering bespoke design and equipment supply for facilities wanting to provide the very best in sporting excellence. And that's why they came to see us at Wattbike.…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 21, 2012
Today we're featured in CityAM as fitness expert, Laura Williams, takes her very first ride on a Wattbike and although she is not usually keen on cycling, she immediately saw why the Wattbike is very different from any other indoor bike. Laura tried the Wattbike at Reebok Gym in Canary Wharf, a place where members generally have little time to exercise due to the nature of their job. The…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 20, 2012
Last Friday evening we took a trip to the London Olympic Velodrome for the UCI Track World Cup, we hadn't quite expected to see some awesome performances and two world records in a single night. The building is awesome, both inside and out, and the racing throughout the weekend was equally as good. If that was just a taster for the Olympics then we're all in for a real treat come…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 16, 2012
When you're 6 feet and 7 inches tall it's not that easy to find fitness equipment that can handle the sheer size of your body and with an inside leg measurement of 37 inches, Steve Bainbridge has found just a solution to help him train for triathlons in the Wattbike. Steve is a former rugby union player, representing both the British and Irish Lions in their 1983 tour to New Zealand and England…
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Posted by Ben Addison on Feb 15, 2012
If you've got any kind of interest in the sport of triathlon then you'll need to be at Triathlon Show 2012, taking place at Sandown Park racecourse from March 2nd to 4th. You won't be able to miss Wattbike at the show as we'll have our own stand, a Wattbike in the 220 Triathlon subscribers lounge, a couple of Wattbikes on stage during the Fit Brands Fashion Show and they'll…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 13, 2012
Summit of Col du Soulor We're always on the look out for insiprational stories from Wattbike owners across the world and this is no exception, a tale of a comeback to the bike and nerves and excitement ahead of a first foray into the challenges of some iconic Tour de France climbs. Jonathan is taking on the Etape du Tour - Acte II, it's the Queen stage of this year's race and features the…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 13, 2012
Here is our choice of the best of the web from the last week.... HASTA LA VISTA Rapha Condor Sharp have established themselves as a dominant force in UK racing over the last few years. In 2012, the emphasis is on developing young talent, with the introduction of a group of U23 riders. Among them is Felix English, the Irish track sprinter who famously defeated Chris Hoy. Here he tells us how he’s…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 10, 2012
Today we bring you the first in a series of interviews with the HotChillee Ride Captains(RCs), the people who keep the riders on track during The London-Paris and Alpine Challenge. We're sponsoring the RCs throughout this year and they're all well into their training for these events on their Wattbikes. The RCs have quite varied and interesting backgrounds, many have raced at a high level…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 08, 2012
One of the things that really comes to mind about our trip to the Alpine Challenge last year was the fantastic setup of the event, everything really was catered for. One thing that I will always remember is the massages from the the guys at TheTriTouch. At the time they were incredibly painful but they really did the business when it came to getting me through the following day's riding.…
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Posted by Matt Moran on Feb 08, 2012
A couple of weeks ago I headed down to South Wales to meet up with Simon Richardson. Regular readers of the blog will be familiar with Simon, he won two Gold and a Silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and is currently on the road to recovery from a second serious collision whilst he was out training on his bike. I will leave Simon to explain what happened in the video above, where…
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