What are the key questions you should ask yourself before buying a bike?

There are many types of bicycles available for many different purposes; it's essential to get advice from an expert.  I would recommend visiting a local independent bicycle retailer for help and su...

Whilst you're stuck at home and (especially if you have young children!) potentially in a more stressful situation it's going to be easy to let the nutrition slip and indulge in some serious comfort eating. We're here to say, do it! Just not all the time! Here are a fe...

Our lives have changed. Rapidly and unexpectedly. Only a few weeks ago I was planning my racing season, ramping the training up and looking forward to seeing what would be roughly my 27th season of cycling would bring. And it was the same for most of the athletes I coa...

None of us were expecting the situation we currently find ourselves in, that’s for sure! With a good winter's training behind us and the excitement and anticipation of the season about to start, we are all good to go and then boom; Covid-19 brings it to a halt and chan...

MBPC coach and team rider Simon Beldon explains why you need to be able to put a number on your functional threshold power (FTP), why that number can help us to coach you to your best performances – and how you can still beat people with a higher FTP than yours.

What is...

As soon as it became clear just how quick the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak was becoming we got in touch with our riders with some practical  tips/things to think about. As it’s turned out we were spot on with the recent Government announcements!
 
Firstly, if you ca...

Team Bottrill launches strongest ever line-up

March 2020 – Matt Bottrill, multiple national champion and competition record breaker, has announced his strongest line-up to date, with three new signings to bolster the eight-strong sponsored team.

Team Bottrill is again su...

At Matt Bottrill Performance Coaching, We’re fortunate enough to get offers of wheel sponsorship quite regularly but, as everyone knows, I’m all about the numbers and if a wheel doesn’t offer any savings over what we’re already using, I’m not interested.

But when I saw...

Nutrition on the bike is a hugely personal thing, and what works for one athlete does not necessarily translate to also being another’s ‘magic formula’. But it is a hugely important component of a good training programme for cyclists, in the form of personal wellness a...

I had two fantastic days in the Boardman wind tunnel this January where we helped some of our top athletes get their CdAs down to… well, that would be giving the game away, wouldn’t it? Let’s just say we’ve made some very significant gains with them and I am really exc...