Now that all the boring desert racing is out of the way the Classics can begin. I don’t care if the great Eddy Merckx co-owns the Tour of Oman, it’s still a rubbish place for a bike race! There’s been a bit of a lull in any decent road racing since the Tour Down Under in January,…
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TdU and the Hour Record
Great to see three Aussies on the podium at the 2015 Tour Down Under! A big GC win for Rohan Dennis, taking first by 2 seconds from Team Sky’s Richie Porte, Rohan’s BMC teammate and all round good guy Cadel Evans finishing third. This all bodes well for Rohan’s attack on the hour record at the Velodrome Suisse in…
Bike cameras in pro cycling
In my opinion, on-board bike cameras are one of the best things to happen to pro cycling coverage in recent years. It’ll only get better as the technology moves forward and funding increases. Think real time footage from sprints with data overlays of rider speed, power or hill gradient. Here’s some footage from Stage 4…
Tour Down Under 2015
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been counting down the days until the start of the new pro cycling road season. It’s been a long and boring off-season, especially if you have no interest in that muddy cyclocross malarkey. Well the racing has finally kicked off with the Santos Tour Down Under in Adelaide! German…
What are you training for?
What are you training for? Or more to the point, what is your current training program setting out to achieve? Are you training to be race ready? Are you training to be RACE READY? I thought I’d share this article from Dig Deep Coaching about the importance of ensuring your training is in line with…
Two Wheels with TC 