It took a while to get the virtual tombola turning, but we did it eventually and we've picked out Hannah Pole and Tim Loveridge from our Facebook fans, Twitter followers and Newsletter subscribers as the winners of a bundle of the fantastic 3LC.TV training DVD bundles. Our Matt tried one of the DVDs recently and survived...just. Congratulations… Read full post
Under-23 cyclist Ian Richards sent us an update last week following what sounds like a very tough Omloop van de Glazen Stad. Ian told us: "My 5th classic this year, the 173km Omloop van de Glazen stad; a city of glass greenhouses wrapped itself around the tight twisting course. The first 100km of the race didn’t drop below 47km/h. With constant… Read full post
It's been a while since we've had an update from Simon Richardson so it was good to see an email drop into my inbox telling me about just some of the great things he has planned this year and next. As always with Simon, it's look forward - never back, and so he has started to arrange a number of fundraising activities to help raise money… Read full post
Part Two of our video interview with Rebecca Romero features her thoughts on training on a Wattbike. As a former rower, Rebecca was used to a life of work on ergometers and this continued through her time with British Cycling, who use Wattbikes for training and testing of their elite athletes. Rebecca gives us the lowdown on the kind of Wattbike… Read full post
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read full post