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The Blind Racing Challenge – Will Two Brave Cyclists Find Their Way Back?

March 15, 2021 at 12:04 pm5 min watching

Road cycling

Some cyclists pride themselves on their impeccable sense of direction and not being dependent on GPS or Strava routes. But can two cycling influencers, who love GPS and Strava, Cameron Jeffers and Keira McVitty, find their way back to a starting point after being blindfolded…

Build Your Own Cycling Training Plan – VO2 Max Workouts

November 26, 2019 at 11:56 am5 min reading

Health & Training

Improving VO2 max or the ability to utilise oxygen in the muscles is something virtually every cyclist could benefit from. Whether it’s training for a goal event, or the push to the finish line, a hard section of a climb, or trying to hold off…

5 Tips to Ride Uphill Faster

October 24, 2019 at 8:56 am5 min reading

Road cycling

Hearing about the number of watts pros push out and seeing how lean they look, it can be very easy to think that riding uphill is all about power and body weight. While both of those are very important, there’s more to climbing. Let’s take…

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Škoda OCTAVIA SCOUT Will Take You All the Way to the Trail

December 6, 2018 at 12:23 pm7 min reading

Family

Even cyclists drive cars. Not all of them, obviously, but the majority do. Sometimes they cover long distances to enjoy a holiday in the Alps, other times it’s just a few kilometres to hit the trails after work without losing precious time cycling in traffic.…