Thankfully, the hours of daylight are gradually stretching out, allowing me to get on my road bike and do a bit more training in the evenings after work. Until now I 've been surviving solely on the Wattbike for my cycling, but today I rode to work and last Sunday I managed to get out with a friend for a couple of hours. The first thing I noticed on Sunday was how great I felt, especially on the… Read full post
Bikeradar.com, CyclingNews.com and MyLifePT have put together a fantastic set of videos following Oli Beckingsale's recovery from his accident in 2011. Here are all five installments from the series which shows just how important the Wattbike was to Oli's rehabilitation. Don't forget to check out our own video interview with Oli. Read full post
Here are some great tunes to get you through the month of April, summer is just around the corner and all that winter training is beginning to pay divididends. Enjoy the Spotify playlist... Wattbike April Training Tracks Read full post
While I was in Mallorca at the HotChillee Rendezvous I decided to take a trip up to Alaro to see US Track Cyclist Sarah Hammer. I arrived just as Sarah had returned from a long ride on the sunny Majorcan roads but, ever the professional, she was happy to sit straight down and give us a quick update on her thoughts about the Olympic Veldorome in London, her slighltly longer-than-usual schedule for the… Read full post
A couple of weeks ago I headed down to see 2008 Olympic Gold medalist Rebecca Romero. For those who don't know, Rebecca is one of those very rare people who have won Olympic medals in two different Olympic Games AND in two different sports. In 2004 at the Athens Games she took silver in the quadruple sculls rowing event then went on to win that memorable gold medal in the Individual… Read full post
It's clear that lots of people simply love the data coming out of the Wattbike - we hear of people spending endless hours poring over their heart rate, power ouput, cadence figures and more. It really is the best way to track your progress and see the first signs of over-training and/or injury. Of course you can do all of this within the free Wattbike Expert Software. We also know that… Read full post
Mark Shaw from Les-Stables came up to the Wattbike Science Lab recently to get some advanced training with our Sport Scientist, Eddie Fletcher. Mark had known about the Wattbike for some time and summed up one of his main reasons for adding the Wattbike to his roster of services on offer at Les-Stables as: "If it's good enough for British Cycling then it's good enough for us." Les-Stables,… Read full post
Our guys in Finland have just sent us the results from the official Wattbike Championships in Finland. The event took place in the Liikuntamylly sports centre in Helsinki and saw an increase in entrants from last year for the 10km time trial. Samual Halme took home the trophy in the male categaory with a time of 12:25.59 while Riina Miettinen stood atop the womens podium after completing her 10km in… Read full post
Today's guest blog comes from HotChillee Ride Captain David Kirkby (aka Capt) - four of the guys are heading to the Cape Epic mountain bike race in South Africa on Thursday and Capt has sent us this update:- David Bryant (the Bull), Will Watt, Jay McStay and myself fly out to South Africa next Wednesday night, landing early Thursday. We have entered the Cape Epic mountain bike race, covering approx… Read full post
If you want to know what it's like to stand on the start line of your first pro race then let Ian Richards give you the lowdown on his experience. Ian told us: "One hundred and fifty beats per minute, that’s what my heart rate was standing on the start line of my first professional race. Rabobank, Christina Watches, Katusha and Leopard-Trek were just some of the teams that surrounded… Read full post
Helen Russell kindly gave us an interview after a hard session with her coach, our very own Eddie Fletcher, and gave us an insight into life as an Age Group Duathlete/Triathlete. Helen has been progressing fantastically well and does much of her training on a Wattbike. Last year she won the 2011 ITU Sprint AG Duathlon World Championship (AG 35-39) in a time of 1:08:43. She originally… Read full post
At the start of the month we took a van loan of Wattbikes to the 2012 Triathlon Show at Sandown Park Racecourse in Surrey, to say we were all over the Show is an understatement. If I rattled off the list of places you could sit on a Wattbike they'd include the 220 Triathlon magazine subscribers lounge, the Fit Brands Fashion Show, the PowerBar Indoor Time Trial and of course our very own… Read full post
Road.cc have published the last of their monthly articles on their website today after having a Wattbike in the office, some great comments from writer Mat Brett and we're really pleased with the feedback from the guys there. If you'd like to take an honest and independent view on what the Wattbike is all about then take a look at the articles below:- We've got a Wattbike and we're… Read full post
In last month's Newsletter we asked for stories about how people use their Wattbike. We had some great responses but the winner of the Wattbike kit was Tony Kuipers from Australia. Tony only recently got into cycling having been unable to run due to a serious knee injury. After only three weeks of cycling he entered a couple of mountain bike events and in his own words “did everything wrong”.… Read full post
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… Read full post