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BikeRadar Live teams up with CycleActive Future – the special interest media group - has announced one of its first commercial partnerships for its forthcoming cycling festival, BikeRadar Live, with free cycle skills training from CycleActive. BikeRadar Live is teaming up with a host of leading names for the UK’s biggest cycling festival, taking place on the weekend of 11-12 July 2010 at Brands Hatch in Kent. The first of these partnerships is with CycleActive, with the UK’s leading cycle instructors returning to the event to deliver their unique brand of skills training to experts, novices and kids. CycleActive attended the inaugural BikeRadar Live show last year, and will be expanding on their offering for 2010 with a new ‘Pump and Jump’ area, as well as the successful junior skills area and skills clinic for mountain bikers. The Pump and Jump free sessions will teach mountain bikers all about flying off lips, small jumps, kickers and tabletops. The hour-long sessions will take place on a custom built pump-n-jump coaching track, and are guaranteed to transform the skills of mountain bikers, enabling them to put them to the test at the rest of BikeRadar Live. In the spirit of getting the whole family cycling, CycleActive will again be running the ‘Junior Skills with Islabikes’ sessions. The 20-minute skills sessions will cover all kinds of biking skills, and at the same time children will be able to try out some of the latest machines from the Islabikes range. The skilled, motivated and relaxed style of coaching from the CycleActive experts is ideal for building confidence in young cyclists. Developing those skills further, CycleActive founder Chris Ford will also be running a one-to-one skills clinic, where he will help mountain bikers to identify any problems or issues that riders can’t get to grips with. The individual sessions will run throughout the weekend, and will be free of charge. Grant Norris, Event Manager for BikeRadar Live said: “We’re delighted that CycleActive are returning to BikeRadar Live again, the feedback that we got for the skills sessions last year from cyclists and families was great. Encouraging children to ride better, smoother, safer and with greater confidence is really key to BikeRadar Live, as we equip the cyclists of the future with the skills that they need. The Pump and Jump area should be really fantastic, mountain bikers are sure to pick up loads of exciting skills and tips and it’ll certainly be great to watch!”  |
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Leaders in Leadership The governing body for mountain bike leader training – the SMBLA – has appointed a national team of their most exceptionally talented tutors to act as best practice advisors and mentors. Chris Ford of CycleActive was the only tutor to be selected from the Northwest of England. Along with the other four successful tutors – based in the South East, Wales, the North-west and Scotland – Chris will be working on the development and refinement of each leadership course delivered by the SMBLA. “The selection process was rigorous, they wanted to be certain that the people on this team could deliver to a high standard and they looked at everything I’ve done as a cyclist, leader and tutor in the last 15 years – it was intense!” explained Chris. A significant part of the mentor role will be to deliver leader education courses (such as the hugely popular Trail Cycle Leader course) to consistently high standards, and to use these as a blueprint for new tutors. Having a national mentor team also creates a forum for pooling ideas and resources – something mountain bike leadership needs as the demand for leaders in schools, clubs, outdoor centres etc. grows every year. Chris’ is probably one of the most in-demand leadership educators and coaches right now. His CycleActive courses bring in clients from major national organisations like Sustrans, Outward Bound, the police and the armed forces. He has also created bespoke educational programmes for PGL – the UK’s largest supplier of outdoor education to young people. |
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Trek 2010 Selection for CycleActive Lance Armstrong, Liam Killeen, Tracey Moseley….some of the most famous international and national names in cycling and mountain biking are linked to Trek bikes. For 2010, for the third year running, CycleActive will join the list of riders and teams supported by one of the most progressive cycle companies in the world. Trek’s support for CycleActive instructors and leaders is a real credit to our team – it’s a true badge of quality to be recognised by, and associated with, such a well known and respected brand. Working with the UK’s largest Trek dealership, Wheelbase of Staveley, our team were able to analyse each bike in detail and make the perfect selections for the riding and guiding they do. These are the bikes we’ll be riding this season: Remedy 8 Selected by Jon and Rich for trail centre jumps courses and big mountain coaching, as well as the technical trails of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains. Lighter and quicker than last year’s model the Remedy 8 is a serious workhorse that can handle a year of intense guiding use and abuse without complaint. View the Remedy 8 Top Fuel 8 A superbly flexible bike that’s at home on smooth trails as in the mountains, touring with clients, coaching with kids or running leadership courses across the country. This is the machine chosen by Chris for everything but the most extreme terrain, when he switches to his Remedy. View the Top Fuel 8 Fuel EX 8 This is the bike that James goes for every time. His super smooth technique in technical terrain (he trains downhill with the best in the world), combined with his incredible power in the hills (he also used to race xc - against the best in the country!), require a formidable bike for all occasions. View the Fuel EX8 6700 Fit it with slick tyres and it’s a great bike for Cuba or Malawi, fit it with chunky tyres and it’s a perfect fast singletrack machine for days when your clients are riding hardtails. Every component is good, reliable and can be trusted to keep us spinning for thousands of miles. We’ve got a few of these! View the 6700 LINKS Trek bikes Tracey Moseley Lance Armstrong and Livestrong Wheelbase |
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New Manchester to Marrakech Route The low cost, cycle friendly airline - Easyjet – has announced a new route flying direct from Manchester to Marrakech, starting this spring. Easyjet flights from Gatwick to Marrakech have been a popular option for mountain bikers joining our High Atlas Singletrack tour. The new route makes Morocco even more accessible from the north of England thanks to well timed, and very well priced, flights direct from Manchester. With easy access by road and rail the Manchester hub has been growing in popularity year on year. Currently flight prices from Manchester are under £200 return with all taxes included for the most popular upcoming mountain bike tour dates. With the airport at Marrakech being so close to the city, hotel transfers are also very easy and cheap to organise for tour groups coming in on mixed flights. |
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