Ally & Bob Campbell

Campbell Coaching

Discipline: MTB

 

 

Favourite Fibrax Product:
Brake pads have always been a favorite organic and sintered.

 

 

Why did you get into cycling? What do you enjoy about it?

We offer MTB coaching & coached rides, we're based mainly in Afan South Wales & North Wales. We have 'private' coaching venues designed especially to progress our clients skills.

 

To develop your skills and confidence efficiently & quickly we use a modern formula of ignition, (thats your desire to improve) Master coaching (thats our bit!) Deep practice (some of this will be on the course but most of it will follow the course when your out riding) this all leads to enhanced skills & confidence in the shortest time possible.

 

Our coaching style is professional but always friendly & relaxed. We keep ratios small for high quality Skills coaching & we use video analysis on our sessions to ensure you get the most out of it.

 

 

Interesting fact about you:

Ally was still MTBing 7 days before she gave birth to Fin.

Steve Day aka Machine aka Wolverine

Travers - E3Coach

Discipline: Mountain Bike - singlespeed

 

 

Awards/Titles/Wins 2016:

• WEMBO Singlespeed 24hr solo world champion 2016
• Mountain Mayhem 2016 solo winner – overall and singlespeed categories
• Torq12 2016 Vets & Singlespeed winner
• 2016 UK singlespeed championships winner

 

 

Favourite Fibrax Product:
Carbon Tyre Lever – light, stiff, strong, just does the job really well

 

 

Why did you get into cycling? What do you enjoy about it?

I’ve always had bikes. After getting bored of BMX, downhill & short course XC, I found my home in endurance mountain biking. This turned to singlespeed when I broke my thumb playing hockey & couldn’t use shifters – and I never looked back. Over the past 5 years this has gone from strength to strength, culminating in taking the 24hr singlespeed title in New Zealand in February 2016, whilst also finishing 6th overall. Singlespeeding makes you think a little more while riding – line choice & conservation of momentum, and there’s nothing better than passing the geared boys on the climbs!

 

 

Interesting fact about you:

I actually have better sideburns than both Guy Martin & Wolverine, both of whom have modelled their appearance on me…

Matt “Taz” Wadie

Back of the Pack Racing

Discipline: Single speed rigid

 

 

Awards/Titles/Wins 2016/7:

I’ve won all sorts of prizes at single speed events.

 

 

Favourite Fibrax Product:
I love the brake pads & frame protectors.

 

 

Why did you get into cycling? What do you enjoy about it?

Been riding/playing/racing/bumbling about on mountain bikes since the 80’s with a period off to do the, rock n roll thing before falling back in love with all things bike. Found single speeding purely as a means to not destroy XTR kit on my nice bikes every autumn, winter, spring in Cannock Chase filth. It was cheaper to build a beater SS than replace expensive kit. Then found a perverse pleasure in getting inappropriate bikes in silly places and hooning through windy singletrack in a quiet non-chainslappy way. Sold all my expensive bouncy geared niche and replaced it with bendy tubed exotic niche with one gear instead.

 

 

Interesting fact about you:

• I’ve somehow gained a reputation for destroying bike components though brute force and ignorance.
• I know how to get arsenic from a stuffed duck.

rotor race team

Discipline: MTB XC, Cyclocross

 

 

The ROTOR Race Team is a new MTB XC and Cyclocross team built on the principles of team spirit, mutual support and great camaraderie in all races in which we are involved. Velotech Services supports three of the UK’s biggest XC series (Midlands, Southern and Eastern) and we have riders competing at national level across several age groups. The men and women in this exciting team are proud to represent all our sponsors.

MARKUS STITZ

BIKEPACKING SCOTLAND

Discipline: Bikepacking, Singlespeed, and whatever has adventure written on it

 

 

Favourite Fibrax Product:
I love the brake pads, and recently discovered the joys of lowering the weight of my gravel bike with lightweight rotors.

 

 

Why did you get into cycling? What do you enjoy about it?

I started cycling as a child, but then mostly stayed away from it growing up. It was at university that I re-discovered the joys of exercise, and after a short stint running long distances, I finally started cycling long distances, as that was way more exciting. In 2006 I did my first backpacking trip on the bike through the Scottish Highlands, and then moved to New Zealand to discover as much as I could of the country with a mountain bike. This is what really got me into adventure cycling, and I haven’t lost the passion for it. Cycling is the ultimate form of freedom to me, and moving to Scotland in 2009 I got into more serious distances, mostly on the road bike, cycling 424km from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye at the most. 2010 marked the start of my singlespeed career, cycling various times home for Christmas, and in 2 days to the London Olympics from Edinburgh. In 2014 I discovered my love for off-road bikepacking, and finished the Highland Trail. In 2015 I again finished the Highland Trail, one day faster this time, and came fifth at the Capital Trail. And then went off to do a long lap, cycling 34,000km around the planet. Cycling has given me a lot of great memories, and enabled me to meet some great people, and that’s why I am now running Bikepacking Scotland, to encourage more people discovering their adventurous side.

 

 

Interesting fact about you:

I worked as DJ for 12 years and ran a music festival for 5 years. Normally I connect great adventures with a particular song. Although I couldn’t take any music with me on the round the world trip, as I needed the space on my phone for filming, so for a year I was forced to listen to the Strathpuffer song and ‘Don’t dream it’s over’ from Crowded House.

 

fibrax Wrexham Roads Club

Discipline: Road & Circuit, Time Trial, Cyclo-Cross, Mountain & XC

 

 

Why did you get into cycling? What do you enjoy about it?

Wrexham Roads Club is a long-established, friendly cycling club based in Wrexham, North Wales.

 

We have a broad membership of both men and women - from youngsters, to those who consider themselves more 'mature', and from experienced racers competing at national level in time trials to novice riders who ride just for fitness and fun.

 

The club runs a series of time trials in the summer evenings to which guests and novice riders are welcome, as well as two classic 'open' events - the Mountain Time trial and the Horseshoe Pass Hill Climb. The club also promotes a series of mass start circuit races on the new Marsh Tracks facility near Rhyl.

 

In addition club members organise regular club runs and training rides as well as a range of other activities and social events to which all members are welcome.

 

 

Interesting fact about you:

We have been associated with Fibrax since 1979, adopting our name in 1994