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Confirmed: no DerbyWheel test event until after Olympics
A video message to prospective competitors has been posted on the DerbyWheel website homepage, in which CEO James Pope confirms that the test event will not be happening until after the Olympics – meaning mid-August at the very earliest. Global Keirin understands that the video was sent directly to riders a week or two ago.…
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Two months of silence casts doubt over test event
It’s now two full months since the last news update from DerbyWheel. The most recent news article posted on the website was April 12; and the revised ‘open message to cyclists around the world’ was dated April 17. The website continues to state in several places that the exhibition event will take place in ‘the…
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Riders await new date for test event
With DerbyWheel’s test event missing its proposed April 26-28 dates, organisers and riders now face a number of practical challenges in choosing a new date before the end of June, as promised. After a relatively quiet spring, there are a number of well-established UCI C1 and C2 events scheduled for May and June; and track…
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Irish champ Walsh changes plans after test event delay
With DerbyWheel’s April test event postponed, Irish sprint champion Orla Walsh has filled the sudden gap in her schedule with something from the opposite end of the scale. She revealed on Instagram that she will now be participating in the celebrated Mallorca 312 gran fondo event, riding the 167km circuit around the north of the…
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DerbyWheel confirms test event delay
Edits to the DerbyWheel website have confirmed Global Keirin‘s report that the test event proposed for Newport on 26-28 April has been postponed. References to the April dates on the Calendar page, and in DerbyWheel president DJ Hyun’s ‘open message to cyclists around the world’ were changed to ‘1st half of 2024’ – which we…
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One month to go… what do we know?
DerbyWheel’s exhibition event has been announced for 26-28 April 2024, in Newport, United Kingdom. But for an event just one month away, very little detail has been communicated. Where will the event take place? Newport is the home of the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome of Wales. Opened in 2003, it is an indoor 250 metre…
