Travel Won features in short film

10/04/12

Our Travel Won features in this short film: http://www.rapha.cc/knock-for-knock

All change for the team formally known as qoroz

15/12/11

The Under 23 team run by South West Bike Academy, formally Team qoroz, is undergoing major changes for 2012.

After being sponsored by Qoroz Titanium bikes for three years, major changes will take effect from the end of the year. The Under 23 team, that had such a successful and high profile 2011 season, has formed a partnership with Elite French-American based squad, Equipe CMI. This partnership forms a strong pan European set-up that will undertake an extensive and exciting race calendar that includes UCI stage races, as well as a full UK programme.

Team manager David Walters commented "The partnership with CMI will allow the young riders from the UK to develop their skills and understanding of what it takes to succeed in the sport alongside experienced and high quality European teammates, in a wide-ranging race calendar."

Chris Davies of qoroz commented; "The relationship between the Academy and qoroz has been incredibly beneficial for both parties, and their input has helped bring the qoroz race product up to the high level it is now. The youngsters on the squad have represented us professionally and with commitment, and have achieved great things with our considerable support, notably winning Perfs Pedal last season. Onwards and upwards for all."

qoroz would like to thank the team for their commitment, support and feedback over the last three years, having played a fundamental part in the development and testing of the Race Won.

Words: Velo UK

Dean Downing trains on a qoroz Mountain Won over the winter

08/12/11

Dean Downing went to Morocco with Alistair Cope of Velo Ventures in October. He borrowed a qoroz Mountain Won for his 7-day traverse across the edge of the High Atlas Mountains. During that time, he tested it on all sorts of terrain from rocky single track, fast dirt roads and tricky sandy paths. Added to that, he forded rivers, climbed up to 3000m and encountered cacti at close quarters! Alistair said: "It was without doubt one of our best tours, a fantastic bunch of riders that all just loved biking. Deano quickly became one of the gang, and we all had so much fun!"

Dean loved it so much that, on his return, he asked Chris Davies of qoroz if he could use the same MTB to train on throughout the winter. "Mountain Biking" said Dean, "is always great fun in the winter and pretty good for my fitness, I had a great time out in Morocco back in October with Alistair of Velo Ventures and the qoroz bike was great at handling the tough mountain terrain. Thanks to the guys at qoroz I can now use it through the winter and put it through its paces again."

Looking at the state of the Mountain Won when it came back from Morocco (covered in red dirt and shredded rear tyre), Chris knew Dean would put the MTB through its paces over the Christmas break. Chris said: "Alistair is one of our qoroz ambassadors and we were delighted to offer Dean our Mountain Won for his trip to Morocco. When I got the bike back I could see Dean had had a great time. Dean got in contact and explained he was looking for a MTB to train on over the winter. Having someone like Dean use our Mountain Won will prove if it's as strong as we believe it to be. It'll be interesting to see what's left of our Mountain Won when I get it back at the end of February."

Associated links:
http://twitter.com/dean0downing
www.deandowning.com
www.veloventures.co.uk

qoroz ambassador Martin Morgan plans world record attempt

26/10/11

The newest qoroz ambassador, Martin Morgan, will in 2012 be attempting to enter the Guinness Book of Records as he plans to break the Land's End to John O'Groat's return record.

Aiming to beat the current record of just under six days, Martin is already preparing himself and will be training hard over the coming months. Something this young, ambitious multiple British Tae Kwon Do Champion is used to!

Martin from Whimple, near Exeter will be donating sponsorship money raised to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Donation page: http://www.justgiving.com/LEJOGLE

Follow Martin on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TKDMartin

Further reading:
http://goo.gl/QgNam
http://goo.gl/tFzxN
http://goo.gl/m329j

Maria, riding a qoroz Race Won, beats James Cracknell's team

30/08/11

"When we rolled up at the start line of day 2, James Cracknell almost fell off his bike when he saw what I was riding. At the end of the day he knew he was in serious trouble as he'd only managed to take 20 seconds from us on the morning road bike section! Thanks qoroz, we couldn't have done it without your support!"

The Adidas Terrex Coast to Coast Adventure Race finished yesterday, Bank Holiday Monday, and the Team event was won by Team Accelerate which comprised on brothers Dan & Matt Halliday and Maria Leijerstam.

It involved running, cycling, kayaking and swimming the width of the UK and Team Accelerate did so in an impressive 19hrs and 20 minutes, winning by almost an hour. Second place were previous Adventure Racing World Champions Team Adidas Terrex including Olympic Gold Medalist turned adventure racer James Cracknell.

The rules of the race meant that two people from each team of three would race at any one time and Team Accelerate, captained by Dan Halliday, took some very smart decisions around this. The Halliday brothers are amongst the best mountain runners in the country and hence they always took on the mountain running sections whilst Maria Leijerstam was able to offer her strength in the kayaking and road biking sections. "At no point did we hold each other back as we had planned the race and bike choice perfectly" said Team Accelerate.

The race starting in the sea at Whitehaven in the Lake District and finished at Robin Hood Bay in the North East on foot. The route followed the traditional Wainwright C2C, but instead of walking it over a leisurely 7 days, these athletes did it in 4 days. Each day was broken up into 4 or 5 phases with some very fast transitions between each phase. Each Team has a support crew who would transport all of their kit from transition to transition and get food, gels, drinks, kit and clothes ready for the next leg.

For further information visit http://www.adidas-ar.com/2011/ . A full documentary will be aired on Channel 4 and Transworld sport at the end of the year.

Success for team qoroz at nurburgring 24hrs

30/08/11

"British team, qoroz, paid a visit to the 24hrs of Nurburgring race in Germany recently and came with a win! qoroz sent riders Ben and Tom Stockdale, Matt Ullmer plus the founder of the company, Marcus Eales, to take on thousands of Germans in one of their biggest and most prestigious events."

Read the full article at Velo UK.

James Bowthorpe cycles 670km in 24 hours!

17/06/11

Following up from our previously announced news item, James Bowthorpe rode 670km in 24 hours non-stop - allowing himself just a 10 min break every 4 hours!

You can read an article and view video footage from the event over at Bike Radar:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/james-bowthorpe-cycling-300-miles-in-london-shop-window-30630

James Bowthorpe rides again!

07/06/11

Round the world man becomes window dressing for 24 hours!

Have you ever seen someone give a talk after they've been cycling for 24 hours non-stop? Here's your chance.

James Bowthorpe will be cycling for 24 hours straight in the window of Look Mum No Hands! on Old Street, starting at 7.30pm on Wednesday 15th of June and finishing at 7.30pm on Thursday 16th June. He is aiming to ride 300 miles in the 24 hour period. James will be riding a qoroz road bike on a specially adapted training platform provided by Rollapaluza; a giant LED display in the window will show time and distance elapsed... can he manage it in time?

The start date is no coincidence - in one year's time James will be starting the Race Across America, a non-stop 3000 mile race with a time limit of 12 days. He'll need to be able to repeat this 24 hour feat 10 times with 1 hour sleep each day.

Please come along to cheer him on and countdown the final 30 minutes from 7pm on Thursday 16th June. Afterwards, James will give a brief and breathless presentation of his plans for the next 12 months, including a non-stop race across America, several non-stop mountain bike adventures in the UK and a multi-stop adventure down the Hudson River.

Since his record breaking 'round the world ride in 2009 James has been busy. Busy building things, making a short film with a Mogwai soundtrack, guiding 25 cyclists from John O'Groats to Land's End whilst feasting on local food, training for Paris-Brest-Paris and the Race Across America, writing articles for The Rig Out, Boneshaker Magazine and The Ride, and catching up with correspondence. He hasn't done a talk for a while and after this one... well, who knows when the next will be?

Weds 15th June 7.30pm 24 hour static cycle starts
Thurs 16th June 7pm the countdown!
7.30pm the dismount and presentation

Look Mum No Hands! 49 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HX

http://www.lookmumnohands.com/
http://www.rollapaluza.com/

For more info contact:
0776 042 1966
jb@jamesbowthorpe.com
http://www.jamesbowthorpe.com/

The Halfords Tour Series invites Team qoroz as a guest team

11/05/11

The Halfords Tour Series invites Felt Colbournes Team, Team Herbalife Wheelbase, Team Corley Cycles and Team qoroz as guest teams. South West Team qoroz, run by the South West Bike Academy will be the first of the four teams to take part in this year's Series as they make their bow at the Series' first ever Welsh round in Aberystwyth on Thursday 26th May. The Halfords Tour Series kicks off at Durham on Tuesday 24th May, with highlights on ITV4 the following evening, Wednesday 25th May, at 20:00. To read the entire British Cycling news release visit: www.britishcycling.org.uk/road/article/roa20110510-Guest-Teams-for-Tour-Series-0

James Bowthorpe announces his move from Santos to qoroz

21/03/11

qoroz are delighted to announce that we are now sponsoring James Bowthorpe! There's a whole host of stuff we're doing with James so watch this space.

Read James' initial statement

Watch a short timelapse video of James and Chris from qoroz building the road won and race won cycles in preparation for James' RAAM attempt.

The Great Tour Concludes

06/09/10

With the inaugral Great Tour at an end, qoroz would like to extend our congratulations and admiration to Alistair Cope and all the other riders who participated. Well done on what can only be described as an truly epic journey!!

To read back on any of the stages from the Great Tour which saw Alistair cycle the UK's coastline for 64 days straight on a qoroz Road Won, go to http://tour.qoroz.co.uk

qoroz support Alistair Cope for the Great Tour 2010

15/06/10

In just over two weeks time, the inaugural Great Tour will be commencing and amongst the riders is, Alistair Cope. qoroz have provided Alistair with a Road Won bike for this mammoth cycling venture in aid of the Prostate Cancer Charity.

You can read more about Alistair and his forthcoming journey, donate and more at the tour microsite: http://tour.qoroz.co.uk/