Maas van Beek broke the hour record behind a derny on Monday in Moscow. The Dutchman reached 66.443 kilometers behind pacemaker Wilco van der Hoorn. The previous record holder was Matthé Pronk with 66.017 kilometers. Van Beek was pushing an […]
The line-up for this Saturday’s second leg of the new Revolution championship at the Manchester Velodrome has been announced. Star of the show will be Olympic champion and Tour de France fourth-place finisher Bradley Wiggins, putting on a show at […]
Top riders of international track racing have written a letter to Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The reason is the planned canceling of several track events for the 2012 Olympics, including the individual pursuit. The […]
The Danish duo of Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv are the surprise winners of the Gent Six Day race. The Danish duo beat the favored Iljo Keisse/Roger Kluge in an exciting final sprint, taking the overall by a mere three […]
Belgian Iljo Keisse and his German partner Roger Kluge took over the lead in the Gent Six Days at the half-way mark. They have a 22-point lead over Swiss team Bruno Risi/Franco Marvulli and are up by one lap over […]
The Maastricht Six Day is set to return to the calendar next year. According to the organization behind the Six Day the race has been confirmed on the calendar for the upcoming three years. The race will make its comeback […]
The Kuipke velodrome in Gent, Belgium began its Six Day race by paying tribute to the late Dimitri De Fauw. The Belgian tragically took his own life earlier this month after suffering years of depression following a horrific accident in […]
Bradley Wiggins will be making a return to the boards in the Revolution event on December 5th at the Manchester Velodrome. The organizers are expecting capacity crowds as Britain’s best endurance rider revisits his track roots after his revelation to finish […]
Cycling Australia has been pushing hard to get back up to speed against arch-rivals Britain. Its riders showed they mean business with a dominant performance at their home World Cup in Melbourne, where Australia won eight out of the seventeen […]
Southern hemisphere riders dominated the first day of round two of the Track World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, although they didn’t have everything go their way. Australian World champion Cameron Meyer took the gold in the men’s points race ahead […]
Triple Olympic medal winner Scott McGrory has warned of a bleak future for track cycling due to the pending elimination of key events from the Games programme. The former Australian rider, who took gold and silver medals in the Madison […]
Switzerland’s Bruno Risi and Franco Marvulli won the Munich Six Day last night. The Swiss duo held on to a slim three point lead over Denmark’s Alex Rasmussen and Michael Morkov. The win marks the ninth and final time that […]
German Six Day racing has been hit hard in recent times with one of its oldest races, the Dortmund Six Day, announcing earlier this year that it would be cancelled due to financial problems. The race that was scheduled for […]
Mickaël Bourgain, one third of France’s World team sprint championship winning team, is to undergo surgery on an injured shoulder, according to French sports daily l’Equipe. The sprinter, who was also the bronze medallist in the sprint at the Olympic […]
An already star-studded Revolution series starts this weekend with yet more names from the ProTor peloton added. The new recruits are named as Saxo Bank’s Matt Goss, Katusha’s Ben Swift and recent OmegaPharma-Lotto signing Adam Blythe. “I’m really looking forward […]
After dominating its home leg in Manchester earlier in the month, the Great Britain team has announced a much-reduced line-up for the next round in Melbourne Australia next week. Most of the riders named were present in the Manchester round, […]
Great Britain dominated on home soil when it took ten gold medals at the paracycling world championships over the weekend. The leading Olympic track nation showed once again that its paracycling riders are also a force to be reckoned with […]
With just two sessions down – and seven medals awarded – in the World Para-Cycling Track World Championships, two World records have already been broken. The Manchester Velodrome, which recently played host to the first round of the UCI Track […]
