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Chris Froome – Tour de France 2021
In a terrible summer of lock-downs and very little Bike Racing, it has been announced that that Chris Froome (36) will ride for the Israel Start Up Team in the 2021 edition of the Tour de France. (26th June – 18th July). He will ride as Road Captain, supporting their...
Hot Weather Cycling
For the last few weeks, here in the UK it has been very sunny. We have been having our annual “summer”. The time of year when we have a few weeks of very hot weather and the headline in the newspapers is ‘What a Scorcher…!’ It lasts about 3 weeks and then we are back...
Tokyo Olympics 2020
It has been confirmed that the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be held between 24th July to the 9th August 2021. Originally scheduled to take place from 24th July to 9th August 2020, the event was postponed in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is the...
Fitwins Virtual Challenge
Fitwins Virtual Challenges: FITWINS means winning physically, winning mentally, taking on a challenge and smashing your goals. Throughout 2020, as well as my usual riding on Zwift, I was also taking on a number of Virtual Challenges. These included, Lands End to John...
Zwift – Level 50
Zwift is a popular multiplayer online, cycling and running, physical training programme that enables users to interact, train and compete in a number of virtual worlds. It was founded in 2014 and the first ‘beta’ version was available in Sept 2014. A fully-fledged...
Santos Tour Down Under 2021
The Santos Tour Down Under is a professional cycling race held in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is usually the first event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 World Tour Teams. It also incorporates a UCI Women’s Pro Series event and a one day circuit...
Covid-19 Pandemic
My first report on what has become known as the “Covid-19 Pandemic” was in February 2020 with my article – “A funny start to the year”. The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK is part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019, which causes severe acute...
CADEsport 2020
I came across CADEsport in mid-2020, it looked a good possible alternative to Zwift. Originally the Beta programme was released under the brand CVRcade, which was changed to CADEsport shortly afterwards. Although the reviews weren’t brilliant, in fact some were pretty...
5 Rules #2
Moving on from my original article in September 2017, I thought we would revisit “The Rules – The Way of the Cycling Disciple.” As a reminder, there are 95 Rules contained in the book, that all cycling enthusiasts are encouraged to follow. However, many of the Rules...
Tour de France 2020
The Tour de France was scheduled to run from the 27th June – 19th July 2021. It was the 107th edition of the race. However, due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, it was postponed to the 29th August 2021and it finished in Paris on the 20th September. It was a strange...
Laurent Fignon
August 2020 represents 60 years since the birth of Laurent Patrick Fignon and a short 10 years since his death. Fignon (Le Professeur – The Professor), 12 August 1960 – 31 August 2010; was a French Professional Road Cycle Racer, who won the Tour de France in 1984 and...
Wiggo’s Money Troubles
Money woes continue for Olympian and Tour de France winner Sir Bradly Wiggins. At the end of 2019 he wound up two of his companies with debts of more than £1m after the failure of his Team Wiggins cycling team. A report has revealed that Wiggins Rights Ltd, the...
Chris Froome to leave Team Ineos
It has been announced that one of Britain’s most successful rod cyclists, Chris Froome (35) is leaving Team Ineos at the end of the 2020 season, after they have decided not to renew his contract. With 10 years and 7 Grand Tour wins (4 x Tour de France; 2016,15,16 and...
Networking Beyond the Basics
Once you have mastered the basics of Networking, what else can you do? Start to move further out of your comfort zone. Try writing an article for a relevant magazine or the relevant section in your local paper. You are then a published author and you can refer to it...
Kickstarter Unsuccessful Projects
3 Unsuccessful Kickstarter Projects: Only approx 35% of projects are successfully funded, and go on to full delivery. Here are three projects that I backed, but they did not reach the amount required to go forward. Fortunately, if the amount pledged does not reach the...
Pro-Cycling 2020
The 2020 Pro-Cycling Season, has well and truly started. With the Tour Down Under (21st – 26th Jan) won by Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), all those fans are looking forward to a great year of cycling. Out to the UAE in February, then the Classics from March… With the...
A Funny Start to the Year
It has been a very funny start to the New Year - 2020 There is something in the air, it’s not quite right! It didn’t have a great start – my wife in hospital for a pretty serious operation, then a month of assorted hospital visits, and when I was back talking with...
Marco Pantani – 50th Birthday
Today we celebrate a special 50th Birthday of one of the most charismatic riders of the Professional Peloton. Marco Pantani (13th Jan 1970 – 14th Feb 2004) was an Italian Road Racing Cyclist, who was regarded as the greatest climber in the history of professional...
Building Relationships for more Business
Once you start to network on a regular basis, people will get to know you and will learn to trust you, and then they will refer business to you. But it is up to you to build those relationships. If you have promised to do something - do it! Very few people make good...
Cold Weather Cycling
October has rolled around again, and here in the UK, we are having one of those ‘early winter’ freezing weeks. The wind in coming down from the Arctic, and to say that it is ‘cold’ is an understatement. I accept that we don’t have anything like the winters in Canada...
Tour of Britain 2019
I’m a great fan of the Tour of Britain, and have followed it from the early days of The Milk Race. The 2019 Ovo Energy Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men's professional road cycling race. It was the sixteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of Britain...