The Wattbike Blog

Ben was recently down at the England Training camp with the guys from Altidude Centre during the build to Eygpt game and as part of the preperation for the World Cup in South Africa this summer. Although we do not want to give to much away the youtube clip gives you an idea of what the players had to go through and we can say they all did very well. The Wattbikes are about 45 seconds in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9RFNOFyuT8 http://www.altitudecentre.com/   read more...

Below is an update from two time Olympic Silver Medal Rower Debbie Flood who is attempting to break back into Team GB for London 2012. She has been training on the Wattbike to test the premise that cycling helps rowers. From training camp to trials. Camp (in survival mode) was my first marker. It was not an easy time, but I never thought that it would be. Olympians achieve their success through hard work and training and I have a bit to catch up on. … read more...

Wattbike have been confirmed to attend the Southern Sportive's March Training Day on the 28th March. We will be offering product testing, training advice and our resident Sport Scientist and Coach Eddie Fletcher will be delivering a training talk on how to get the most out of your training using power and pedalling effectively. Check out http://www.southernsportive.com/ for more information read more...

Over the last few weeks we have been inundated with good news stories, which I have listed below. If you have any Wattbike news that you would like us to post on the site email news@wattbike.com   Marek the Orienteer - Blog entry - Attended a wattbike session in Estonia. Robbie McEwen - Twitter - rainy recovery day. easy session on my Wattbike.probably best training tool ever. Power+indv. L+R pedalstroke analysis http://bit.ly/dAR8rA Robbie McEwen - Twitter - try this link insteadhttp://wattbike.com John Lee - Pinkbike blog - Review of training… read more...

Nick popped into the office to see me this week, and download some of his data from his monitor. He arrived at about 10am having already done three sessions - the man certainly gets some training in early! Here is his latest update: "It's cold, wet and more snow is on the way (not again!) - time for a long steady Wattbike session - its so much nicer indoors and soooooo warm! It was going to be a rest week this week but forgot about… read more...

Nottingham Clarion Cycling Club are offering a Wattbike night every Thursday from 6:30pm to 9:30 pm at the Sports Hall, Holme Pierrepont. If you are in Nottingham, check it out.  read more...

We already new that Robbie McEwen was using the Wattbike, but we did not know how much he loves it. We do now! read more...

Ben, Andy and Gary spent the weekend at the TCR Show (I was only there for Sunday) - running the Wattbike 200m challenge. Some good results and nice to put faces to names. Learning process for us though, we should have been doing a pedalling technique session and comparing individual's power delivery with some of Britain's top cyclists.  read more...

  Early in 2010 I had an email from Malcolm Thornton, a keen Wattbike user, who had requested the Wattbike logo to put onto his cycling jersey for the ABSA Cape Epic. Further email conversation with Malcolm revealed an interesting story. Here it is in his words:   I rather foolishly allowed my wife to enter me in the ABSA Cape Epic, an 8 day, stage mountainbike ride in south africa in March 2010. I am a keen amateur cyclist, but the longest off road… read more...

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 followed by Forza with 48.70sec and in third… read more...