Team Jeep South Africa
Team Jeep South Africa is based in Pietermaritzburg in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands and are one of the most recognised teams in South Africa…
Minimising The Risk of Taking Contaminated Supplements
Many athletes have blamed ‘supplement contamination’ for testing positive over recent years. With an abundance of products now available, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that each and every one is free from banned substances. We recently received an email from Informed Sport asking us to publish an article on the subject to help athletes understand the possible risks involved with taking such substances and how they ensure that certain products are safe.
Bike Pure Launch Ethical Sport Poster Campaign
Bike Pure have launched a major poster campaign to promote sporting ethics and integrity. The poster campaign entitled ‘Put Your Hands Up For Fair Honest Sport’ is launched in eight languages and will be available for download on the organisations website and displayed in cycle stores worldwide.
Partnership with the Taylor Hooton Foundation
We are pleased to announce partnership links with the Taylor Hooton Foundation in the USA. We have long since sanctioned against the use of illegal performance enhancing steroids in sport. Sometimes, though, steroid use goes beyond sports and ethics and becomes a matter of life and death. The median age for beginning steroid use is [...]
LE TOUR de LANGKAWI ENTERS ITS THIRD YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH BIKE PURE
Cycling fans worldwide deserve heroes they can believe in and Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) supports the fight against using illegal performance enhancing drugs to compete in cycle sport
Study Confirms Education is a Key Factor in the Fight Against Doping
Some months ago we were approached by Lisa Whitaker, a PhD Student at Leeds Metroploitan University UK, to assist in the promotion of a study she was compiling about attitudes towards doping…
Stretching
We hooked up with UK based Professional cycle coaching Forme Coaching to get the lowdown on stretching. Would you agree that the majority of cyclists don’t stretch regularly enough? Should we? Yes you should, it helps prevent injury and helps the body adapt better to training. It is also a nice time to relax and [...]
Coaching: Winter Break?!
When in the northern half of the planet suffers the ‘off’ season, and bad weather means less kilometers being racked up: We hope to hook up with a few coaches over the next few weeks to keep us keen and motivated. We had a brief chat with former professional and Tour de France rider Adrian [...]
Train in Spain with Team Raleigh Professional Liam Holohan
Bike Pure role model and Team Raleigh pro Liam Holohan has teamed up with cycling training camp specialists ‘Train in Spain‘ to enable you to take advantage of his wealth of experience and tuition during the early part of 2012. Train in Spain was established in 2009 and has grown to become one of the [...]
One club’s secret ingredient to success? By Thomas Evans
Former Irish international and Elite endurance coach, Thomas Evans offers a retrospective article on the benefits of Fixed wheel training. For over thirty years one of Ireland’s biggest and most traditional cycling clubs, Banbridge CC has continued to produce and develop Irish champions, International and Nationally successful riders at all levels, including Olympians. This success [...]
