Viva La Revolution! – British National Madison Championship & Revolution 39

GB’s sprint team came away relatively empty handed, but it wasn’t through lack of effort. National Madison Championships and Revolution 39 report. Revolution 39 landed at the National Velodrome at Manchester on Saturday – the National Madison championships made an understated start to proceedings, run during the afternoon before the main event, with a surprisingly sparse crowd privileged to be present to witness some absolutely corking race... Read More

Ellie Coster & Emily Haycox

DHL Future Stars Leading Team – Team howies – LtoR: Emily Haycox, Tristan Robbins, Ellie Coster & Joseph Wiltshire. Download: 2012-11-01T15_35_10-07_00.mp3 // Click play button to listen. Related Links: Ellie Coster at Cycling Shorts Emily Haycox Cycling Shorts Revolution 37 Report Cycling Shorts Revolution Series website          Read More

Revolution 36 Series Finale Report – Return of the Sprinters

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My Mad-Dash For The Line

Becca Hunt & Ellie Coster Madison Podium ©Cpoyright Ben Dando/Cycling Shorts. The madison went really well. My partner Becca Hunt and I were both very nervous for this event because we both wanted to win really bad. We knew we had a good chance of coming in the top three but we had to have a good game plan. We planned to put me in for the three sprints because I am more of a sprinter than Becca. We planned to change as normal during the race... Read More

GB National Madison Championships & DHL Future Stars Madison

LtoR: Owain Doull, George Atkins, Mark Christian, Simon Yates, Tom Murray, Alex Dowsett The days cycling kicked off with the National Madison Championships peppered with Sprint Qualification rounds for the final Revolution of the season to be held later in the evening, more information on those sprint events in the Revolution 36 Report (online shortly). The velodrome didn’t appear to have sold out but it was certainly busy and bustling with... Read More

The Revolution Continues…. The Manx Missile returns to the Track

  Rob Hayles Retirement Presentation - Image ©Copyright Ben Dando @ Cycling Shorts. Saturday night saw the arrival of the much anticipated second Revolution of the season and the return of Mark Cavendish to the track after more than 2 years. Mark’s last outing was at the World Championships in 2009 and as a former World Madison Champion it was great to see him back at the track reunited (if only for a manly hug) with his former partner... Read More