Scarponi’s team bike being built with Campy EPS and a Custom Plasma bar.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.315902715114211.62806.100000834542964&type=1&l=3a45dafc13
February 6, 2012
February 1, 2012
Isle of Wight Sportive – clubs discount.
Club Call for Wight Riviera Sportive
Southern Sportive are celebrating their closed road Wight Riviera Sportive on May 20th, with a great offer to clubs. Enter a group of ten or more and get a 10% group discount, plus, if you notify Southern Sportive of your club entry, they’ll list your club on the event’s club call page. Participating clubs will also get to lead out the mass start on the 25km, closed road Avant loop.
January 30, 2012
April 1st – Joker Sportive route announced in association with Wilier.
April 1st Joker Sportive Route Details Released
Route details for southern Sportive’s new sportive, The Joker, have been released. The April 1st event features a slightly different format than usual to celebrate it’s distinctive date, but the end result is still going to involve a serious day’s riding!
There are two ‘core’ routes to choose from; the 97km Full or 80km Short. But on top of these a series of extra loops will be presented for you, including some climbs and challenges of note. If you take on everything, the maximum distance available rises to 122km, which sounds like a friendly, early season total, until you look at what stands in your way…
Wilier Toni Bevilaqua…105 years of cycling heritage in a modern fixie / SS.
Wilier Toni Bevilaqua SS / Fixed bike in Cycling Plus, a fixie with 105 years of race heritage and Italian style.
January 26, 2012
Discount Ferry Crossings For The Isle Wight Sportive In Association With Wilier.
Red Funnel back Wight Sportive with 20% off ferry travel
The new Wight Riviera Sportive is already selling fast, hardly surprising for a sportive with a road closure and a ticket price lower than some regular open road events! And the Wight Riviera is now adding even better value, Thanks to support from the Isle of Wight’s ferry operators. The event is supported by both Wightlink and Red Funnel ferries, and Red Funnel are the first to announce their discounted travel package for the event; 20% off for vehicles crossing on their Southampton to Cowes service…
Wilier Week…
All the latest from Wilier in the UK.
Is this the best looking bike in the Pro Peleton…
Wilier Twin Foil TT 60 second sell on Bike Radar…
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/
Alejet interview in Cycling Weekly.
January 24, 2012
Torq / Wilier Tri Team unveil their 2012 Wilier Twin Foil…
TORQ Twinfoil
Last week’s London Bike Show saw the unveiling of a unique project between TORQ and Wilier. As sponsors of TORQ’s Triathlon team, Wilier have supplied the athletes with frames for the 2012 season, but the livery is quite unique. There are only 8 of these baby’s in the world…
“The Italians have styled this slippery TT frame beautifully as you’d expect, but the attention to detail on the TORQ livery is second to none. There’s some ingenious science behind the design too, because in recent years bike manufacturers have worked incredibly hard to make their frames arrow-like and pointy at the front so that they cut through the air ‘apparently’ more efficiently, giving faster TT times. Wilier have turned this assertion on its head and state that the unusually wide front end of the Twinfoil actually channels air between the extended forks and head tube, making the air turbulent before it hits the rider (a much bigger aerodynamic concern). It’s the rider hitting turbulent ‘dirty air’ that Wilier say makes their frames faster than the others on the market. Our guys and gals on the team certainly can’t wait to find out”.
- Matt Hart, Torq.
We’ll get back to you when the full bike is built up, but we couldn’t wait to show you this box-fresh frameset. On the finished bike, expect to see Fast Forward wheels in custom black and orange, just like the frame, Ritchey aerobars, Schwalbe tyres, orange Jagwire cables and Shimano drivetrain.
For further information on the Wilier Twinfoil, take a look at either of the following recently published reports…
http://roadcyclinguk.com/news/london-bike-show-wilier-twin-foil.html
http://road.cc/content/review/50030-wilier-twinfoil-frameset
Read more @
http://www.torqfitness.co.uk/news/torq-twinfoil
January 23, 2012
Off -Road Sportive in Association with Wilier.
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It’s back! One year on, the instant hit of 2011, the Woodcote CX Sportive returns THIS SUNDAY January 29th! Featuring 80, 60 & 40k routes, this is a fast and firm circuit, perfect for the depths of winter! The rugged Chilterns lanes combine with metalled farm tracks and the choice of the areas best tracks and trails to produce an excellent and highly ride-able winter treat! The backbone of the ride is on tarmac and hardpack, with just enough rough stuff and technical spice to keep it interesting. The varied route never lingers too long on one surface; there’s always something around the next corner to liven up your ride! And as ever, the ride will feature full and comprehensive route marking, feed and support stations and electronic rider timing, and there will be hot and cold food, drinks and snacks, plus free SIS energy drink.
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January 19, 2012
CX Sportive returns this month!
CX Sportive returns to the Chilterns for January
A year on from it’s inaugural event, CX Sportive returns to Woodcote in the Chilterns on Sunday January 29th. An instant hit in 2011, this years Woodcote even is set to be even bigger, with places filling up fast.
CX Sportive is an exciting new format for the winter season, and the Woodcote in the Chilterns, north of Reading is an ideal combination of surfaces for the event. The course mixes winding back roads with byways, tracks and a few short tougher and more technical off road links that will certainly bring the heat! CX Sportive will suit the weapon of choice from your bike stable. It’s ideal for your cross bike, but equally suitable for your XC MTB, 29er or even road winter training bike, tweaked for a little rough stuff…
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January 17, 2012
Southern Sportive news in association with Wilier.
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury – the famous “Hovis Hill” from the TV advertisment – is to feature on the course of the Joker sportive on April 1st.
The iconic cobbled hill became one of the most famous streets in the country as the setting of the 1973 Hovis advert, which showed a young bakers boy pushing his bike up the hill to deliver bread. It will feature as one of four optional challenge loops on the Joker, a new sportive from the Southern Sportive organisers, that combines a serious sportive challenge with an April Fools Day twist.
http://pressitt.com/smnr/Hovis-Hill-to-feature-on-Joker-Sportive/9006/
Wight Riviera Sportive, 19-20th May:
New Isle of Wight Sportive features closed road format
New Isle of Wight Sportive features closed road format
The Wight Riviera Sportive covers the best of the Islands quiet roads and spectacular views, with options from 62km to 154km, racking up over 2200m of climbing across the Islands steep downland profile. The sportive is the headline event of a bigger Cycle Wight weekend, a festival of cycling on the 19th & 20th May, with rides for road and mountain bikers, and family and leisure cyclists.
Southern Sportive have launched a brand new Isle of Wight sportive, and confirmed that the event will feature an exciting new closed road format.
The Wight Riviera Sportive is the first in the UK to use the new Sportive Avantage format. Sportive Avantage is an exciting new cycling format devised by the Southern Sportive team, that combines a classic sportive route with a closed road lead out, a new event concept providing the perfect challenge for the widest possible range of cyclists…