Bike Science Bristol recently had a visit from none other than Gordon Smart, editor of The Sun Newspapers “Bizarre” entertainment column. Gordon’s heading up an intrepid team of ten wannabe triathletes from The Sun including “The Big Man” from Bolton, Radio 1 DJ Vernon Kay. There’s been some serious verbal sparring between the team members so expect to see, Vernon, Gordon and the rest of the team tearing up the tarmac during this years London Triathlon. Gordon and Vernon’s task master, personal trainer James Daly received his Planet X SL Pro Carbon and bike set up as he also prepares to show his understudies who’s the boss on the London course. For information on James’ personal training and coaching services, see HIS WEBSITE.

Follow the progress of the team on The Sun Triathlon Team blog pages.

Bike Science provide bike fit services to the team, Planet X supply bikes and Chicken Cycle Kit provide Time pedals and LAS helmets.

As a bike fitter, last Saturday was always going to be interesting and to be honest I’d fully expected that we’d take a set of Retul measurements from 9 times BBAR winner and one of the most experienced time trial riders in the UK and simply confirm his riding position was bang on and leave it at that. As it happens, after checking and re-checking Ian’s position we ended up making some pretty significant changes…

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