Brian
Smith - Marathon Man!
Tuesday 18th November, 2008
Former British pro champion Brian
Smith a dad and running marathons? - we needed to find out more! Congratulations,
I believe you're a dad now, Brian? "Yeah, Ethan
is eight months now, it's cool being a dad, I'm enjoying the experience.
He had me up three times last night though – that's not handy,
especially if you're training for a marathon!" More...
Ross
Creber - Scotland's Newest Professional Cyclist!
Monday 17th November, 2008
We all dream about it (or have dreamt
about it) but 20 year-old South Queensferry man, Ross Creber has done
it – put pen to paper on a pro contract, with Plowman Craven.
VeloResults were on the phone, before the
ink was dry. More...
Pros
& Their PowerCranks: Part II
Saturday 15th November, 2008
In Part
I on Tuesday, we learnt how recent Tour of Britain winner Marco
Pinotti, one of Cadel’s lieutenants at Silence-Lotto Dario Cioni,
and English Pro winning in Belgium Matt Brammeier, discovered PowerCranks
and how they got in with them during their first rides. Here in Part
II, the Pros let us in on how they integrate the cranks into their
daily routines, and how the cranks can greatly help with rehabilitation
after an accident. More...
Pros
& Their PowerCranks: Part I
Tuesday 11th November, 2008
In a sport where Grand Tours are won or lost by
mere seconds, every advantage counts. It’s no secret that many
top pros use PowerCranks as part of their training program, but most
prefer to keep that secret. But we found three pros - Marco Pinotti,
Dario Cioni, and Matt Brammeier who not only use the cranks, but were
happy to talk to us about them. In today’s Part 1, we ask each
rider about how they got turned on to PowerCranks, and their experiences
getting started. More...
Alex
Coutts - Tour of Thailand Winner
Friday 24th October, 2008
In winning the Tour of Thailand, Alex Coutts joined
an elite club - British riders who have won an overseas national tour.
A couple from the memory banks are: in 1965 Vin Denson won the Tour
of Luxembourg and in 1988 the hugely under-rated Cayn Theakston won
an epic 19 stage Tour of Portugal - but there aren't many more. We
caught up with Alex, just after the Scottish hill climb championship.
More...
Scottish
Hill Climb Championships
Sunday 12th October, 2008
On a mild but blustery day on the north side of
the Ochil Hills, Ben Abrahams (equipe Velo Ecosse - Montpeliers )
finally realised some of his potential and gave new team sponsors
Harley Haddow engineering and Warners solicitors value for money with
a surprise 17 second win in the Scottish Hill Climb Championship.
More...
Chris
Hoy - Performances and Plans
Saturday 11th October, 2008
We've been stalking him since Beijing; and at last,
we've cracked him - Chris Hoy, Olympic gold medallist in the team
sprint, keirin and individual sprint. We've heard that he now retains
Max Clifford, "PR guru to the stars," as his agent, so we
decided we'd better check out the financial aspect of the interview,
first... More...
Tour
de Trossachs (incorporating
the Scottish Olympic Time Trial Championships)
Sunday 5th October, 2008
On a picture postcard perfect Autumn
Sunday, hospital consultant Arthur Doyle (Dooleys Cycles) gave a lesson
in how to ride a technical time trial with a two minute plus beating
of the field in the classic Tour of the Trossachs. Ever consistent
Jim Cusick (Glasgow Couriers) was second with Plowman Craven professional
and Scottish road race champion, Evan Oliphant taking bronze. Doyle's
recent training regime of riding 55 miles to work each way, prepared
him perfectly for the climbs, descents, corners and gnarly surfaces
of the "Bristly Country" as the Trossachs translates from
the Gaelic language. More...
Hamish
Haynes on Nutrition
Saturday 20th September, 2008
Hamish Haynes is one of British cycling's 'forgotten
men.' Whilst Cycling Weekly tells us about the successes of the U23
Academy riders in Italy, ex-British Elite Champion Hamish just gets
on with the job, competing against some of the best riders in Belgium
week in and week out. His recent win in the prestigous Reningelst
event went unrecorded. Pete Slater at SIS
has been helping Hamish with nutrition this year - no 'freebees' though,
even Daniel Bennati pays for his 'Go bars' - we thought it would be
a good topic to discuss with a man who regularly pushes his body to
it's limits. More...
Ed
Hood's La Vuelta a España Diary
Thursday 11th - Monday 15th September, 2008
Day 5 -- the last day for
us, but the sun was out, Asturias was looking at it's best and Bill
Medley and Jennifer Warne were on Kiss FM; "I've had, the time
of my life," - damn right! Cudillero is a nice spot, not
unlike one of the 'smugglers villages' in Cornwall, piled high into
a steep cleft in the cliffs. We were there before the teams and had
time for a wander, a coffee and to buy an Asturias T-shirt, I'm 53,
it's sad, I know. More...
