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Great riding, climbs, weather

Deciding on stock of the amazing new Fizik R1 Uomo and R3 Uomo cycling shoes from Fizik. Full range of shoes and saddles including the new Kurve range of saddles available to try now!

First day training around Kailua-Kona

Probably the best all round racing bike we have built

The super-cool Team Sky replica helmets have now arrived in the top end Sky Vertigo and cheaper K10 Team version and in stock as well as all colours of the Kask C50Vertigo top-of-the-line helmet (white with red/blue/silver/lime highlights) which has been receiving fantastic reviews in various magazines and online.

Also received new stock of the ever-popular Kask Time Trial helmet in carbon black and silver with clear, mirror and red visor options available and a special offer on our most popular carbon/white Race version from 2009 (a few left in stock).

Range is up here to order online currently with 10% off promotion.

Just back from a fantastic training camp in Lanzarote with “Guru Coach” Filipe along for the first week of technique and long swim sessions in the pool as well as really structured cycling and running sessions.

The most interesting and useful sessions were lactate testing sessions on the time trial bike to work out wattage for Ironman pace and similar on the running track to work out Ironman marathon run pace. Individual write ups on those in due course as they were really interesting. Fantastic to be able to transfer lab results into “real world” advice to use in racing.

Thanks to Filipe for the best structured training camp I’ve done so far in my athletic career – every session had a purpose and done properly and sensibly; no “junk miles” or sessions done just for the sake of mileage (even having done nearly 35 hours on the bike, 10 in the pool and 10 running). There was lots of relevant technical advice especially in the pool (massive difference even in a week) as well as invaluable advice for pacing on the bike and run transferring lab testing and data into the real world am privileged to have have been able to use the facility whcih of course is only of benefit with Filipe’s knowledge and expertise to interpret the results. Most of all we had a really enjoyable time!

A selection of photos from the week below! Link to Sophie Whitworth’s blog write up on the training camp here (one of our sponsored athletes).

Our first delivery of “BikeBoxAlan” boxes arrived today. Exciting to have 5 new boxes turn up which will be available to rent out from Henley and Shiplake (soon to spread across the country I imagine!).

We chose BikeBoxAlan since they have a fantastic reputation for really good build quality which will hopefully pay off in the long run. Customers want the most effective way of protecting their precious cargo and these seem to be the best around. Importantly for a lot of people bikes with integrated seat posts will fit in the boxes too (most time trial bikes and high end road bikes have these nowadays). Also nice to be supporting a leading British company developing great products.

First test is four of the boxes off to Lanzarote for their first trip then some to South Africa to start their worldwide adventures!

Visit www.bikeboxrental.co.uk for our rental services page and www.bikeboxalan.co.uk for details of the boxes.

We built our own Ceepo Katana custom bike which was on display this year at the Triathlon Cycling Running Show at Sandown Park. Alongside the black Ceepo Katana were a white Ceepo Katana and a white Ceepo Mamba which we were also asked to build for the show to put on display. A few photos shown below.