Posted by Hayley Davies on May 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s no secret that one of my goals this year is to start track racing. I bought my #pocketrocket at the beginning of the year and joined Reading Velodrome on a Thursday evening for structured training and accreditation from British Cycling coaches.
Four weeks later, after cycling in circles in some very questionable weather (think snow, ice and -2 wind chills), I was officially ready to race at Reading Track league and officially had my first BC... Read More
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Posted by Hayley Davies on May 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
When I saw the bombardment of tweets about those that had been lucky enough to get a place in this year’s RideLondon, I realised I was missing out on something. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam. I didn’t know where I was going to be come August 2013, and I hadn’t really grasped just what RideLondon was at the point of the application deadline back in August 2012.
As more and more friends around me started to brag about their place, I was... Read More
Filed under Amateur Cycling, Cycling Teams & Clubs, Elite, Hayley Davies, Pro Cycling, Road, Sportive, Training, Uncategorized, Womens Cycling · Tagged with #TeamSkoda, Ajax Cycling Club, Alps, Bike Radar, British Cycling, Cycling, Cycling Plus, Ed Clancy, Harriet Owen, Helen Wyman, London, magazine, Matrix Fitness, Olympics, Pro Cycling, Rapha Condor JLT, Rapha Condor Sharp, RideLondon, road cycling, Skoda, Stefan Wyman, Surrey, Tour of Britain, training, Wales, women's cycling
Posted by Lawrence Bywater on April 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Arguably the most spectacular and visually stimulating of the three Grand Tours the 96th edition of the Giro d’Italia has been described as a hybrid route which transcends the boundaries between a wholly climbers race and a TT specialist’s. Last year’s Giro was perhaps the most stimulating of all Grand Tours with a surprise but worthy winner in Ryder Hesjedal and this year’s looks to emulate that with a dramatic race from Naples to Brescia... Read More
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Posted by Anders Lorenzen on April 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Boris Bikes, no sorry Ken Bikes…” Image © Mark Ramsay
Last month, London Mayor Boris Johnson announced what could be very ambitious changes to London’s cycle infrastructure, pledging nearly £1 billion worth of funding to the scheme.
His plans which includes a Crossrail style cycle route that would run at least 15 miles from West London to East London; a ‘tube network’ for the bike in which cycle lanes would... Read More
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Posted by Bikeboyslim on April 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Can you ever have too many bikes?
Well I suppose it depends who you ask the question of! In our household I would naturally answer No of course you can never have too many, however my wife might just answer rather differently posing a question of her own. How many bikes can you ride at any one time!
Seriously though you do need a bike for each discipline you ride, don’t you. Who in their right mind would use a track bike to ride a BMX course and... Read More
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Posted by Hayley Davies on April 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Last September I threw myself on a track bike and round (and round) one of the steepest indoor tracks in the Netherlands for the first time. And I loved it! There was no going back. The idea of riding a bike that has no brakes at speed still unsettles me a little today (mainly at a fear of not unclipping as I come to a halt and making a fool of myself!), but the more I do it, the more addicted I get. When I left Amsterdam earlier this year, I was... Read More
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Posted by Nick Wachter on March 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Nutrition for Better Recovery
* ALWAYS SEEK PROFESSION/MEDICAL HELP BEFORE STARTING OR CHANGING ANY EXERCISE REGIME.
The more you train the more important it is to recover quickly. But this is also true for those who work out just once or twice a week. Whether it’s a long steady ride or a hard short training session, you’re muscle fibres are going to take a battering. Whenever you do something different (gardening, DIY, a longer or... Read More
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Did I find a cheaper way to Japan? ©Cory Wallace – www.fortheplanet.net
After a good 2012 season, racing mostly criterium in the USA, I dediced to make it bigger and I will continue part time with the same structure captained by Emile Abraham and another one in Japan directed by Sebastien Pilotte; Positivi Peugeot cycling team!
Après une bonne saison 2012, à courir principalement des critériums aux USA, j’ai décidé de faire les choses... Read More
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Posted by Nick Dey on February 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Cycling Turbo Training for Beginners
a quick start guide to cycling indoors to explode your fitness fast. (20 interval workouts included).
by Rebecca Ramsay
Reviewed by Nick Dey
Cycling Turbo Training for Beginners is written in no-nonsense, ‘does what it says on the tin,’ prose and offers the novice indoor cyclist – of whom there has been an exponential population explosion this delightful winter – plenty of valuable and... Read More
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Posted by Paul Harris on January 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Revolution
from a first-timer’s viewpoint
Revolution 39
There’s a cliché about velodromes that, if you’re like me and have never been to one before, you’ll have heard a time or two on telly – it’s that the camera cannot show just how steep those banks are. You hear these things and you nod to yourself, and you file them away in the back of your mind – and if like me, you finally get to go somewhere like Manchester’s... Read More
Filed under Junior Cycling, Paul Harris, Pro Cycling, Reviews, Track, Womens Cycling · Tagged with Cycling, Manchester, Paul Harris, Revolution, Revolution 39, Track, track cycling, Velodrome
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