News // Archive: February 2004

  • Matt Hart
    (09/02/2004)

    Last weekend saw Gorrick run what us Southerners have long considered the ‘season opener’. February is very early season of course and a winter of tempo riding leads inevitably to lack of speed and race condition - leaving riders mumbling and grumbling about their non-existent early season form. The heavy winter training load didn’t appear to disrupt TORQ-tuned Marcos Schier’s flow through the singletrack though. Marcos romped home to victory in the Expert/Elite category off the back of a 5-hour training ride the previous day.

  • Matt Hart
    (05/02/2004)

    Better late than never! Just giving you a tiny bit of advanced warning that TORQ will be on Stand D4 at the Triathlon Cycling Running show down at Sandown Exhibition Centre on Valantines weekend.

    Event Update
  • Matt Hart
    (05/02/2004)

    Kirsty Wallis was one of the TORQ-tuned when she wrote this last summer and now I coach her other half Nick, whilst Kirsty returns to her first love ‘horse riding’ (first love after Nick of course). Anyway, until now (when I actually got round to reading the account of her trip), I was confused at why such an enthusiastic rider would trade-in Mountain Biking for horse riding – all that mucking out has to be harder work than putting hose over your olde faithful jalopy at the end of a ride? Read on and you’ll see why Kirsty packed it in. That’s far too much riding in one day Kirsty, for heaven’s sake girl…

    I think it might have been my idea, I can’t really remember as I was the best part of the way through a bottle of wine at the time. Anyway, in a slightly drunken haze me and Nick obviously thought it would be clever. We phoned our mate John (at a barbecue in Bristol, also a little inebriated) and the plan was set…

    5 Welsh Mountain Bike Centres

    3 Riders

    1 Speed

    We were going to do Wales in a day. On single speeds. We must be stupid!

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