Cycling-Inform are proud to continue its support to Shane Perkins who will be representing Australia in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Yesterday we released Shane’s new website. To check it out please go to http://www.shaneperkins.com

I have just been looking at the entries for the Geelong Tour which is also the Victorian Open Road Championships. Women's cycling is certainly getting the numbers at this event with 57 women entered, in comparision there are 11 men entered.

I think it is the first time I have seen the women's entries so high in comparission to the number of men.

Hopefully this will filter down to club level racing with more women's only grades offered.

I was reading an article the other day in the 'ride On' magazine that was rather interesting about the Australian road laws relating to accidents.

What I was not aware of is that the Australian road laws state its an office to open a vehicle door into oncoming traffic.

Therefore, if a cyclist is forced into traffic to avoid an opening door and are hit by a vehicle, the person opening the door will be held legally responsible.

If the cyclist hits an open car door then person opening the door is at fault.

If you are unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident, obtain all details of vehicles and people involved.
 

Here is the sneek preview of the new Pilates DVD for Cyclists featuring Marcus Speed from Perfect Pilates. We plan to have it ready for a Xmas 2010 release. I've just started cutting the video and this is the first warm up exercise....
 

It's been a while since I posted my last blog...

You may have noticed that the amount of new content posted on our website has slowed down a little. The reason. I’m spending a lot of my time working on new DVD’s that we’ll be releasing towards the end of this year.

The first two are a Stretching and a Pilates DVD for cyclists and tri-athletes. I’ve been working closely with David Hall and Marcus Speed to bring these DVD’s to life during the next few months. Meanwhile I’ve been working with two musicians;  Alexander Nettelbeck here in Australia and Danny Robertson in New Zealand, who are developing the great backing sound tracks to these DVD’s and our up and coming cycling indoor workout DVD’s.

These brand new cycling indoor workout DVD’s are based on the fantastic workouts that we are running down at BikePark and that are being dished out to people on our remote coaching program. I'm hoping to have one or two of these new cycling indoor workout DVD’s out early next year.

Also, I’m doing a heap of research on a major overall of our Cycling-Inform website. I don’t expect to start work on this until early next year. It will involve revising the format and adding a whole lot more functionality.

During all of this Jodie has been doing a fantastic job updating our online store. We now have a full range of indoor training workouts DVD’s, books and other products so check it out next time you have a spare moment.

Don’t worry though. While this is happening you’ll still be receiving your weekly cycling tips via e-mail fix. And... in a few weeks you also also start to get our new revised store promotional e-mail as well.

Also the remote coaching is full steam ahead. We have five coaches (including myself) working with cyclist all around Australia, the UK and Singapore.

Finally. We have the Cycling-Inform Race team up and running. This group of five elite riders are training hard right now. I'm looking forward to seeing these boy's performances later on in the season ....

All the best and I wish you a safe riding.

Here in Australia SBS One will be providing coverage of each stage in this years Tour de France live from 10pm with highlights also at 7.30am and again at 6pm AEST. Please check your local guides.

Hope everyone is getting through the cold mornings, its certainly nice having the choice to go out a but later when its warmed up and little and the fog has lifted.
This morning I went out on the bike about 9.15am and headed to the velodrome and Carnegie. The sun was out and by the time I got there had to remove the wind vest and long gloves. I was there for another moto-pacing session and was joined by Jane and Steph. Both these girls are pretty new to moto-pacing and with some brief instructions now like seasoned pro's behind the bike. The wind was strong through 1/2 the track but the sun was out which made a pleasant mornings session.

Just watch Tour de Suisse highlights for stage 4. Interesting that the commentators were talking about the retirement of Robbie McEwen the great Australian sprinter post the World Champs later this year. There was also a big crash in the final sprint - watch.

I have just found out that One HD is showing highlights of the Tour de Suisse.
The times are a bit variable so check your guide. But by my source (the reliable Keith from EVCC) - normally is spot on!

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 5.00 pm until 6.30 pm
Saturday 4.30 pm until 6.00 pm
Sunday 6.45 pm until 8.00 pm
Monday 3.30 pm until 5.00 pm
Tuesday 12.30 am until 2.00 am (this is obviously live).

As I have been adding additional products to our store I have come across a couple of great titles that really inspire me to follow my dreams. I know a couple of my friends at the moment are also following their dreams. I really hope they succeed. But they wont wonder 'what if'' in years to come. If you are looking for inspiration check out 'Road to Paris' and a MTB DVD 'Off Road to Athens'. Even the trailers of these movies inspire me. I love the comment from Lance in Road to Paris 'who says a can't'.