Cycling retailer and manufacturer Ribble Cycles has taken a look at the various velodromes around the country and put together an infographic. The map allows aspiring cyclists to easily see what facilities are nearby and also where the most notable British cyclists have trained.
The map features everything from Preston Park, the UK’s oldest velodrome, to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, the home of British Cycling.
Matthew Lawson, Chief Marketing Officer, at Ribble Cycles said:
“With the buzz around British cycling still circulating from the Rio Olympics, we think it’s important to show just how much the UK has to offer in terms of training space for cyclists.
“Whether it’s your first time on the track or you’ve been using your local velodrome for years, we hope this research encourages Brits to visit some of the UK’s finest velodromes where so many cycling stars have been in the past.”
13 thoughts on “Map of Britain’s velodromes – where and who trained there?”
Sean Yates at Preston Park
Sean Yates at Preston Park
2 is correctly shown as
2 is correctly shown as Meadowbank with Chris Hoy having trained there, but list of velodromes has it and the Sir Chros Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow transposed
No.13 is in the park next to
No.13 is in the park next to my parents house. When I was I kid I loved going in there. Then the football club came along put up stands and kept the gates locked, only allowing access to the velodrome at limited times.
Just in a hotel room trying
Just in a hotel room trying to sleep…. at newport velodrome tomorrow!
I blame my lack of cycling
I blame my lack of cycling talent on the fact that my house isn’t even on the map, let alone near a velodrome!
thought Laura Kenny got her
thought Laura Kenny got her start at Gosling Park (Welwyn)? Good map, though perhaps showing indoor and outdoor in a different colour would be smart.
I wonder what the populaation
I wonder what the populaation density and travel time to a decent velo looks like when overlayed on it? Seems to be a dearth of facilities in areas Birmingham south and east and from there across England where I think there are reasonable populations a long way from anything.
equally I am not sure the north east has got too much.
i realise there are other blank areas such as mid and north wales but I think there is a small population in them, whereas the blanks I am describing are not.
Dont get me started if you try and consider what areas are outside of an hours travel time to a covered velodrome! That would be most of the south east, south west, West Midlands, east England, north east.
I would love to see a major programme to build velodromes in say reading, Cambridge, at the NEC Birmingham somewhere in the southwest, Newcastle and so on
FatBoyW wrote:
I’ve ben quietly lobbying politicians up here in the North East to build a covered velodrome but Newcastle is that last place I’d put it. The idea in the south appears to be that there’s this huge place called Newcastle and not a lot else, when in fact Newcastle isn’t that large, or populous. The idea that there’ssomething called the Newcastle city region is an invention of policy wonks at second rate think tanks looking for a hand out fromthe city council’s PR budget.
You could have better accessibility by putting a covered velodrome in somewhere like Hexham, Cramlington or Blyth, sparing users the horrors of having to travel into Newcastle. If you were really ambitious you’d add a couple of smaller satellite outdoor velodromes so that you could have greater accessibility – it might seem odd to people from outside the region, but getting from, say, Haltwhistle or Berwick to Newcastle involves hugely unsafe roads with desperately bad bus services, or trains that are infrequent and expensive….
The other north east political problem is that if you try to put something in Newcastle Sunderland will object, and vice versa.
Not many (any) in East Anglia
Not many (any) in East Anglia!
If you live in Essex it’s not too long a journey to London but say if you live in Norfolk it’s a long way to any of them.
Spent 4 hours in the van to
Spent 4 hours in the van to get to Newport! An hour is nothing to winge at.
Am I right that 17 in
Am I right that 17 in Carmarthen isn’t currently functional?
dottigirl wrote:
The localcouncil have been taling about plans to resurface it, put anew fence up and bring it back into use- and of course it’s still a rugby pitch which may make warming up on the infield a challenge….
2 and 3 are the wrong way
2 and 3 are the wrong way round. Meadowbank is in Edinburgh, Sir Chris Hoy is in Glasgow.