Oct 19, 2021 | Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Road Racing, Sportive, Tour de France
As we come to the end of another cycling year, here in the Northern Hemisphere, the only thing you can say is that it has been an odd sort of a year. Better than 2020, but nowhere near a full calendar of events. Many of the iconic Events and Races were cancelled,...
Aug 4, 2021 | Fitwins Virtual Challenge, Road Cycling, Tour of Great Britain
The Grand Tour of Great Britain started on 1st May 2021 and continued for two months, through May and June. It is a 3,000 km, 7 Stage Virtual Road Cycling Tour through the United Kingdom including a 500km stage through Northern Ireland. On completion you receive a...
Mar 5, 2021 | Fitwins Virtual Challenge, Road Cycling
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...
Feb 11, 2021 | Road Cycling, Zwift
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...
Nov 16, 2020 | CADEsport, Road Cycling, Road Racing, Virtual Cycling
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...
Oct 24, 2020 | Cycling, Road Cycling, Road Racing, The Rules, Velominati
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...
