News — Shutt Velo Rapide

Big Shutt Velo Rapide Race Team presence at The Bowl MK. With 3 races every week The Bowl is a good place to keep your form in between the bigger road races. With a week or two off a full 7 Shutt riders descended on MK. Ian Munday was first up in the 4th cat race. From the sidelines it was easy to tell that veteran Munday was sitting pretty in the wheels, staying calm and keeping his powder dry for the inevitable sprint finish. Into the final 2 laps of the short 600m inner loop Munday managed to position himself in...

I thought my season was over with October rolling in all too quickly until I spotted a Facebook post from local coaching outfit ‘Brivelo’. They have organised a ‘point grabbing‘ series at the MK Bowl which is a course suits me pretty well! I came into this season late due to myself and my partner buying our first house. It's been a good season too with a win (here at the Bowl) and a 10th place in Abingdon in a cat 2/3/4 race.The only slight down side is that we have a race team get together at Jool the night...

We recently added a new manufacturing facility in the Veneto region of Italy to complement our Leicester factory. Leicester will continue to make our Merino Perform range, with the premium Custom and Performance wear manufactured in Italy. So why here? Italy has a strong claim on being the spiritual home of cycling, in fact we’ve blogged about this in the past, and the Veneto region is its cycling products manufacturing capital with Campagnolo, Pinarello, Fi'z:k, Wilier, Sidi, Sportful, Castelli, Alè, Fondriest, Basso, Selle Italia, Selle San Marco and Miche among the 60+ factories based in the region. They produce top riders too....

For reasons too boring to share here I had to stop off in IKEA on the way to my 3rd Cat race at the MK Bowl tonight. As I emerged blinking into the daylight from the Maze of Dreams I noticed that the promised rain had arrived, in buckets. Literally. It was bouncing off the tarmac. This was good news. Crits at The Bowl usually consist of a half-hour round the non-technical inner loop and in the last 30 mins a more technical section is opened up. But due to the high-speed cornering and dodgy surfacing, rain usually means the race is...

Amongst the many road races I've ridden in the last couple of months (more on which later) I managed to squeeze in a couple of summertime crits at the MK Bowl. The first was on a sunny Saturday morning in mid-June and it was an all 3rd Cat affair which only used the inner bowl circuit. Luke Souter from SVR was in attendance and a small but experienced looking field with a few other familiar faces. With the course being so straightforward it was likely to be a sedate affair, so Luke and I cooked up a little plan. However,...