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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 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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A full year since the last DerbyWheel news update
It gives Global Keirin no pleasure whatsoever to note that today marks exactly one year since the last ‘news‘ article was posted on the DerbyWheel website. Regular readers will know we watch closely for any signs of life. CEO James Pope posted a video message on the homepage last June, confirming that there would be…
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Newport test event seems unlikely to happen this year
Research by Global Keirin suggests that DerbyWheel’s test event will not be taking place at Newport before 2025. The DerbyWheel website’s Calendar still shows the intention of hosting its three-day dry-run at the Welsh track; but no date is offered, having previously announced and missed multiple dates in the past year. With details of public…
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DerbyWheel calendar update pushes launch back to 2025
Global Keirin‘s website monitoring bot delivered the goods today, spotting a tiny but significant update to the DerbyWheel website. The Calendar page now states that regular-season racing will happen every two weeks starting ‘from the 1st half of 2025’. That’s a change from the now practically impossible second half of 2024. The same date has…
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Counting the days since the last DerbyWheel news update
Every day for a number of months now, usually multiple times per day, your dedicated Global Keirin editorial team has been checking the DerbyWheel website for news of progress towards a test event, and eventual series launch. It has been a thankless, fruitless and joyless task: there hasn’t been any news published on the website…
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Standing start looms for DerbyWheel as Olympic momentum fades
Two months ago, we wrote that it had been two months since the last News update from DerbyWheel. Another two months have passed; and the last News update from DerbyWheel is still from April 2024. Things have happened since then, of course: but you probably wouldn’t know that (unless you’re following Global Keirin). James Pope’s…
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DerbyWheel set for September showdown after test event delay
DerbyWheel seems to be headed for a showdown with cycling’s world governing body in late August or September, following confirmation that its test event will follow the Paris Olympics. International track cycling is focused entirely on the four-year Olympic cycle; and riders will inevitably find themselves contemplating their futures when the final track gold is…
