You may remember that former Arsenal and England footballer Lee Dixon has been training on his Wattbike for the Dallaglio Flintoff 2012 Cycle Slam which saw riders take on a 2,800km ride from Olympia in Greece to the Olympic Park in London. Well, Lee, Lawrence and 'Freddie' (and about 200 other riders!) completed their incredible ride this past… Read full post
Our friends at Team Cycles are taking their Wattbikes around the country again in 2012 to help out JDRF with their Spin to Cure Diabetes events. The concept is simple, get yourself a team of five colleagues together and pit yourself against others for 8 minutes on a Wattbike. The event fits nicely into a lunch break so if you're in and… 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
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
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… Read full post
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… Read full post
It was fantastic to open The Times this past weekend and see the Wattbike described as '...a stationary bike. Yet it stands in the same relation to that rusting contraption in your mum's garage as a Bugatti Veyron does to a Robin Reliant.' The Times journalist, Robert Crampton, is taking on the Deloitte Ride Across Britain later this… Read full post
A nice review of a multisport charity event at Lougborough University last week, which included using Wattbikes to help raise over £3,000! The Wattbikes were supplied by our friends at Team Cycles: On Friday 27th January, 2012, Monica’s Gold Challenge took place in and around SportPark at Loughborough University. The main aim of the… Read full post
We've received a wonderful review of the first ever National Wattbike Fire Service Championships, held at the Friary Grange Leisure Centre in Lichfield. We often talk on the blog about individuals using the Wattbike for training, for rehab and for various charity events but there is also a great race feature within both the Expert Software… Read full post
We recently invited the HotChillee Ride Captains up to the Wattbike Science Lab to get to know the Wattbike a little better and to help them focus their training for both The London-Paris and Alpine Challenge. The Ride Captains role is to help riders both before and during these two great events to get the most of out of their experience, so it… Read full post