Luca is one of ‘the lads’, a long-standing school friend, with whom (on numerous occasions) I’ve drunk silly amounts of beer, embarrassed myself in front of the fairer sex and of course cycled many miles. 

For those of you who’ve been reading and digesting the information on TORQ ribose, the new ingredient unique to TORQ bar, here’s a slightly less technical analysis of this staggering new supplement and how TORQ ribose and plenty of carbs work together to give you optimal muscle power…

For the more technically minded, search for the previous ‘performance issues’ article on ribose. 

The editorials and reviews on TORQ bar are now starting to roll in. 

OK, so it’s not Mountain Biking and why the hell have we got footy on the TORQ website? 

Well that’s Mountain Mayhem over and done with for another year. 

Despite having only recently linked up with TORQ, the much-improved Kirsty Wallis managed to storm home to second place in the recent Singlespeed European Championships

Here’s what she had to say:

“ It was a Le Mans start, but I couldn’t find my bike (would you believe it?), 

After 2 years of painstaking R&D, finally TORQ bar lands on planet earth. 

There’s an amazing new supplement on the market and it’s called ‘D-Ribose’. 

The 2nd Dyfi Enduro was held last weekend. 

Continuing on in our fast-food series, here’s fast-food number 3. 

Once again, two weeks before the 1st NPS in Thetford a bunch of the TORQ-tuned popped up to North Wales with their coach (I guess that’s me) for a weekend of hard physical training to put the proverbial icing on the cake after a hard winter’s graft in the saddle. 

Well, whoever it was that started speculating that Mountain Bike racing was dead in this country was quite obviously wrong if this Sunday’s Giant NRS National Points Series was anything to go by…

The start of the Pro-Elite race

I’ve not seen such a busy Mountain Bike race venue in 3 or 4 years!