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Cyclefit Sports Science Series

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Cyclefit launches the ‘Cyclefit Sports Science Series’: a programme of presentations designed to help cyclists and triathletes improve their performance through cutting edge insights from the worlds of professional sport, high-performance coaching and analytics.


Nibali: The Training & Cycling Nutrition Behind A Winning Performance

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In part 1 of this series, learn how:

  • There are few absolutes in nutrition
  • Training & nutrition could have underpinned Nibali's Tour de France stage winning performance
  • Training and nutrition provide the signals and building blocks to improve performance and enhance adaptations to training
  • Why we must understand the demands of an event
  • How Team Sky use a ‘performance question model’ to structure their nutritional strategy
  • Why professional cyclists may be the ultimate all-rounders
  • What is means to create a ‘Metabolic Performance Environment’

5 Questions To Ask Before Buying A Titanium Bike

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Q: What has buying a titanium bike got to do with the mystical charms of eating the Fugu (Japanese Puffer Fish)?


A: The answer is neither should be rationally contemplated on a budget or without knowing the precise provenance of the raw material and more especially the chef/welder who will ultimately prepare it for you. 


How To Choose The Right Crank Length To Improve Triathlon Performance

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Shorter crank lengths are all the rage at the sharp end of triathlon and are increasingly being adopted by ambitious age group athletes.

Do a few millimeters really matter? Sports Scientist Garth Fox investigates and shares some triathlon training tips...

Training Roads Of The Pros: Riding The BMC SLR01 On The Albula Pass

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“After a 1-hour warm-up, we met on the Albula Pass at 1800m of altitude: [He] rode a stretch of 100m of total difference in height several times, at increasing intensities, checking the times, the heart rates and the lactic acid concentrations".

Cyclefit-GPM10 Girona Training Weekend

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KICK START YOUR WINTER TRAINING WITH A WEEKEND OF STRUCTURED RIDES & PERFORMANCE TESTING

 

On November 15th & 16th 2014, GPM10 and Cyclefit are providing the opportunity to kick-start your winter training and improve cycling performance in a weekend of structured riding on the training roads of some of the world’s top professional cycling teams.

Destination Cross: The Disc-Brake Trek Boone

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Bike manufacturers are always eager to list the features and benefits of their latest model. Trek really went to town with the Boone, detailing twenty features and related benefits. Some (such as “11 speed”) are clearly making up the numbers, but a couple have the potential to positively and tangibly improve performance.

 

I am lucky enough to have a Boone 9 Disc to race cyclocross on this season, and having completed one and a half races so far, I am beginning to feel the benefits of those features.

SRM PC8: Pre-Order Now

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After a number of false-starts, SRM are finally accepting pre-orders for the SRM PC8 head-unit.

Register here to pre-order your SRM PC8. Expected delivery in late January 2015. Prices are yet to be confirmed, but expect to pay £700 inc. VAT.

Favoured by pro-teams for it’s simple, clear read-out and robust performance, the PC7 became the gold-standard display device to accompany the SRM power-meter. SRM has been unashamed in it’s focus on the needs of the pro-peloton; a characteristic which has attracted similarly exacting amateurs and enthusiasts who eschewed the complexities of Garmins and the like in favour of precision and reliability.


Is UCI Weight-Limit Redundant With Modern Lightweight Carbon Bikes?

How Much Time Could A Lightweight Carbon Bike Save You?

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A photo montage of a man out of his depth on a very pretty pink steel bike

Weight is for Green-Grocers and The History Man 

Superlight Carbon Technology - Stock or Custom Bike Geometry?

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Custom Bikes at Cyclefit - Twelve Years in Twelve Lines

Back in 2002 we were the first and therefore only company viewing bikes through the tight prism of fit. This inevitably meant that 95% of the bikes that we built were full custom where the frame was designed by us in-house and then made in the USA generally by Serotta. The primary driver was that almost all big bike companies in the world utilised geometry platforms that compromised the performance, comfort or efficiency of a new generation recreational racers. How could they have got it so wrong?

Etape du Tour 2014 a rider's view

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Back in July I rode the Etape du Tour from the town of Pau in the Pyrenees to the top of the Hautacam it was first tackled by Phil and I in 2008. Surprisingly, given my condition and the weather I put in a fairly respectable time which was quite possibly helped by knowing that Jimmy and Morgan my younger Cyclefit colleagues were in a holding pen 20 minutes behind me.

Etape du Tour 2015 route

Vulpine Cycle Clothing new Central London Dealer

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We’re very pleased to let you know that we are now one of Vulpine Cycle Clothing London Dealers. It’s something of a departure for Cyclefit as we always focus on performance but clothing has to perform well on the bike even if you aren’t racing.

Cyclefit V's Retul Bike Fitting

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December 2014 - Phil and Morgan work with Christina Siggaard from Matrix Vulpine. Photography by Huw Williams

 

Cyclefit v's Retul - FAQ's


The Science Of What To Wear For Winter Cyling

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This article was written by genius ex-Cyclfit sports scientist James Hewitt. James left us a few weeks ago to run NASA but you can stay abreast of his prodigious cycling science output right here

 

THE SCIENCE OF STAYING WARM  - JAMES HEWITT

Find out how can to regulate your body temperature, ride in more comfort and improve cycling performance this winter.

Through the year and even within a single ride, riders can be exposed to a wide range of environmental conditions. Temperature and moisture levels can fluctuate significantly between seasons and even within rides, due to changing weather conditions or through the impact of altitude. Also, whilst we often think about staying warm in winter, with many riders spending increasing amounts of time on the turbo-trainer and with the abundance of winter clothing available, it’s also important to avoid getting too hot!

In this feature, we explore how environmental conditions can influence cycling performance, health, comfort, explain how to minimise potential negative effects and even use the environment to your advantage!

The Frame is Nothing But The Chainstay Seven Cycles

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The Frame is Nothing But The Chainstay

Cervelo R5 v's Trek Emonda SLR v's Phil's Back

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This One Hurts.
It is three years since I hit a pothole and spun over the bars. I have tried everything to recover.
I tell you this because I am almost entirely over not being able to ride a proper superbike up and down proper mountains. Almost over until I see a 2015 R5 pop up in the 2014 Tour being ridden 13k in the rain for a beautiful win by Ramunas Navardauskas on a bike that whose sole intention was to taunt me. Or that is how it feels.


BMC Team Machine SLR01 Review

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In November I had the opportunity to attend GPM10’s Girona Training Camp, two days of riding and power tests to prepare eager riders for their winter training and also the opportunity to get some sunshine and away from the greyness of the UK’s winter. To make the weekend in to something even more special BMC asked if I would like to try one of their Team Machine SLR01 bikes. It’s not often I get the opportunity to ride a test bike as I ride a 50 cm frame so I jumped at the chance.

 

Trek Factory Racing - Cyclefit Blog

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When you have to leave you just want to go back, to be part of the boy’s journeys through and over continents in extreme weather in sickness and in health. I feel I can call them boys - even Fabian - as I’m old enough to have fathered them; although if they were my offspring I doubt they would have become twenty seven of the world’s very best cyclists, maybe my namesake could have been, but there’s no way my genes would have produced such plump and full-fruited mahogany coloured Vastus Medialis. I’m not alone in how I feel at Cyclefit we all care about the riders, Uncle Phil and Morgan (who’s only twenty six) worry about their welfare, seeing or hearing about a crash is like seeing your own child fall in the playground; Matthew’s repeated crashes in the Tour de France hurt us too, we wanted to be there for him, to nurse him and put him back on his bike and make sure he was OK before he went to bed, answer his questions before he turned out his light. We gather around the TV at HQ and watch the younger riders make their suicidal attacks on the decisive climb sent out as bait but deep down they hope they can stay away and so do we, we cheer them on as the gap to the peloton inevitably closes before the big boys ride past without a sideways look of recognition.

 

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