London Bike Show – Free Prize Draw Winners

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

The London Bike Show returned bigger and better than ever for its second year at the ExCel, London.

There was a much larger bike presence than the previous year, with the cycle’s area dominating a whole hall.

The ACT were at the show to promote WorkRiders, the new cycling to work programme, and ATG Training, ActSmart’s partner Cytech provider.

The ACT partnered with the London Bike Show to support the Cycling Stage which was host to Cytech demonstrations delivered by ATG Training, guest speakers and auctions throughout the four day show.

Cytech Technical Advice ActSmart’s runner up Partner of the Year 2011, and Cytech Training Providers, ATG Training were on hand at the Cycling Stage to offer technical advice and carry out demonstrations. The demos were a huge success with crowds gathering to learn about everything from preparing your bike for commuting to truing a wheel.

After watching Cytech demos, visitors were glad to learn that it has never been easier to get qualified as a cycle mechanic, with Cytech Technical One Theory now available completely online, and until the end of February, with 50% off the price.

The interest in Cytech courses was evident through ATG’s prize draw to win home mechanic gear, with over 1000 entries received.

Of all the completed entries received the first to be drawn by the independent adjudicator was:

Mr David Coxhead. Proprietor, Bristows Cycles

David wins the Wheel Truing stand

Park Tools Wheel truing stand

Next to be drawn was:

Mr Robin Warr
from Greenich – London
Robin wins the Advanced Park Tools mechanic kit

Park Tools Advanced Mechanic Tool Kit

Congratulations to both Messrs Coxhead and Warr.

If you have not won a prize don’t be sad, there is much to be gained from attending a Cytech course at one of ATG Training’s world class cycle workshops. Course dates and venues can be found here www.cycletraining.co

Thanks to all of you who entered.

Ian Harper at the London Bike Show 2012

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ATG Training were at the London Bike Show between 12th and 15th January 2012. CEO Ian Harper took a few moments out from speaking to some of the 1,000+ visitors to the Cycle stage we shared with The Association of Cycle Traders, to share his knowledge and experience of the event. This short video will give you a flavour of what happened at Excel in London Docklands.

The World’s your Oyster…

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Jules

Here’s an uplifting story for the Monday blues (if you have them that is!!)

A few months ago, Tony Pushman attended his Cytech Level 2 with us here at ATG-Training. He had come over from Jersey where he worked at Magnus Backstedts shop, Big Maggys.
Whilst out on one of our after work on road rides (I think we had stopped to swap a punctured Tubular at the time) Tony mentioned that he had been asked to work in a mechanical support capacity on Nigel Mansells epic tour of Britain (1200 miles in 13 days) for the charity UK youth.

Tony was lucky enough to ride some of the stages with Magnus and Nigel, although he was always kept busy fixing the mechanical gremlins (he now considers himself a dab hand with Shimano Di2!!) and cleaning the bikes to keep them ‘showroom’

It seems he had a great time and they even found time to visit Nigels old F1 team Williams for a trip down memory lane.

I caught up with Tony at the Cycle show and he’s off to Africa next week to ride a double century!! Sounds like the perfect tonic for the changing weather of the UK.