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2025 Olmo track bike full Bike at Bedtime

We need to talk about that head tube! Check out this steel Olmo track bike from the 1980s

If you want something gloriously extreme, this skinny-tubed fixie could be for you

Sun, Aug 10, 2025 20:45
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Katy Marchant crashes into crowd during UCI Track Champions League

“Why did the barriers completely fail to do exactly what they were fitted for?” Horror crash into crowd sees Olympic champion Katy Marchant suffer broken arm – months after taller safety barriers fitted around track following similar crash

British Cycling says the sprinter is in “good spirits” after her shocking crash during the keirin event at the UCI Track Champions League in London on Saturday night, as fans label new Perspex fences an “abject failure”

Sun, Dec 08, 2024 15:55
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Scratch race crash, 2022 Commonwealth Games (Will Palmer, SWpix.com)

Horror crash that left track cycling spectator with “machete-like” injury prompts London velodrome to install Perspex barrier, two years after rider catapulted into crowd, “almost killing” children

The shocking collision at the 2022 Commonwealth Games led to calls from Chris Hoy and Laura Kenny to introduce a protective safety screen, which Lee Valley VeloPark now says is “a UK first for an existing velodrome”

Tue, Aug 13, 2024 10:26
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Omnium crash at 2023 UCI Junior Track World Championships

Video: Rider thrown across track after arm caught on barrier in high-speed velodrome crash – a year after Dame Laura Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy called on venues to be made safer

Incident at women’s omnium in Cali, Colombia takes out half the field at Junior Track World Championships

Mon, Aug 28, 2023 12:36
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Sir Bradley Wiggins UCI Hour Record 03 picture credit Harry Dowdney from Rapha

Check out Bradley Wiggins’ UCI Hour Record Pinarello Bolide HR

With Filippo Ganna set to take on the UCI Hour Record this weekend, let’s look at the bike Wiggo rode to a new world best back in 2015

Tue, Oct 04, 2022 20:45
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2022 Aerosensor – 1 (1).jpeg

Is Aerosensor the best system for reducing drag without a wind tunnel?

Check out the new British system that uses F1 tech to give your aero drag in real-time as you ride

Thu, Aug 04, 2022 10:01
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2020 Tokyo Olympics broken Australia bike

Aussie Olympic handlebar failure: inadequate spec and fatigue testing to blame

3D-printed titanium base bar was exposed to far greater forces than it was designed to handle, incident resulting in a crash in men's team pursuit qualification

Fri, Feb 25, 2022 11:41
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2020 Huub heated trousers 2

Hot pants! Huub launches £400 heated trousers for record-breaking velodrome performance

Cool kit, or hot air? Huub say these specially designed £400 trousers helped break records at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup recently

Thu, Mar 19, 2020 19:20
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Pinarello MAAT 2020 track bike – 2.jpg

Pinarello unveils new MAAT bike ahead of Olympics

Italian national team gets new design as tech wars hot up in the velodrome

Fri, Nov 29, 2019 20:19
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Velodrome interior (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Hugo Cardoso:Flickr)

Petition to build West Midlands velodrome attracts thousands of signatures

Brian Cookson among those backing the campaign

Sat, Mar 30, 2019 18:20
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