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DerbyWheel hints at an expanded exhibition event in South Korea
In the first substantial update to their website in quite some time, DerbyWheel organisers have indicated that they are considering moving their proposed exhibition event from the UK to Korea, with an increase in the number of invited riders. The website’s Calendar page was updated today (16 July), adding a proposed date for the test…
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DerbyWheel website returns after ominous outage
Access to DerbyWheel’s website was restored early on June 1st, following an outage lasting several days, which raised concerns among prospective participants that the project had finally expired. At some point on or around May 28th, the derbywheel.com website was replaced by an error message from its hosting provider Wix, declaring: ‘Looks like this domain…
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DerbyWheel calendar update pushes start date back to 2026
A further update to the DerbyWheel website points to a start date for the competition in 2026, with weekly racing some time in 2027. Plans for an exhibition event before the end of 2025 were becoming unrealistic as time marched on. But the update became inevitable following the apologetic message from DerbyWheel president DJ Hyun,…
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‘DerbyWheel will be implemented’: new launch plan promised for 2026
Series could also include races on a 400m indoor track in Asia
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DerbyWheel’s UK company now under full Korean control
The distancing of former CEO James Pope from DerbyWheel’s UK corporate entity, DerbyWheel Player Ltd has continued, with additional registration changes today. Global Keirin reported earlier this week that the company’s formal address had been moved to a City of London office block, having previously been an address associated directly with Pope himself. The company…
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DerbyWheel’s UK business changes its official address
DerbyWheel has cut a further connection to former CEO James Pope, in the latest update to the corporate registration of its UK operating company. Global Keirin reported last month that Pope had been removed from the company’s list of directors; but its registered office was still listed as an address with personal connection to Pope.…
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Corporate filing confirms Pope’s exit as director
An update to the UK company records for DerbyWheel Player Ltd confirms that CEO James Pope is severing ties with the project, as reported by Global Keirin a few weeks ago. Pope’s resignation as a director of the company was notified to Companies House, the UK’s corporate register on 23 July. The submission consists only…
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LinkedIn edit hints at CEO Pope’s exit from DerbyWheel
Has chief executive officer James Pope parted company with DerbyWheel? Pope’s profile on LinkedIn, which has recently been his platform of choice for professional communication, has been edited in recent days, adding an end date of May 2025 for his role as DerbyWheel CEO. Pope has made no announcement regarding the change; and there have…
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DerbyWheel pushes launch timeline back a further 6 months
Global Keirin’s website monitor has picked up another quiet update to the DerbyWheel website, once again delaying the launch of the proposed world keirin series. Edits to the derbywheel.com calendar page in the last 24 hours now propose a date of ‘2nd half of 2025 (TBC)’ for an exhibition race, still taking place at the…
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Management change at DerbyWheel corporate entity
DJ Hyun, President of DerbyWheel Incorporated, has been added as a Director of its UK-based company, DerbyWheel Player Limited, alongside DerbyWheel CEO James Pope. The appointment of Hyun as a Director was filed electronically on May 12, with the change reportedly made on May 9. The templated statement indicates only that ‘the person named has…
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Moving beyond DerbyWheel name and its baggage
When the figurehead of the DerbyWheel project to reinvent track cycling writes an article about reinventing track cycling, and doesn’t use the word DerbyWheel, that’s worth a closer look. For what it’s worth, we never liked the name DerbyWheel. Nobody would hear the name, and instantly associate it with bicycles or velodromes. Nobody searching online…
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DerbyWheel’s Pope outlines plan to save track cycling
DerbyWheel CEO James Pope has published an article on LinkedIn describing ‘the initial 5 steps (he) would take to try and fix track cycling’, presenting Pro Keirin as the foundation of a pyramid supporting UCI events. With track cycling in something of a crisis, with the termination of the Track Champions League, and the failure…
