Seven Year Sponsorship of Cycling Sheffield

Today our partnership with Cycling Sheffield entered its 7th year! To mark the occasion VeloViewer’s Ben and Rachel joined the team for the new season launch at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), at Sheffield Hallam University.

The host, Professor Rob Copeland, now Team Manager for Santa Cruz Syndicate, welcomed the Cycling Sheffield team and its supporters. Team Manager, Dave Coulson, introduced the new Under 23 team who are supported and progressed through the British and European cycling scene. The team of eight riders includes two rookies, Josh Horsfield and Oliver Sergeant, who are excited about their debut season. They are all hoping for an injury free season and, for some, are particularly keen to impress when they ride in France and Belgium later in the year in the hope they may attract a contract from a European team for next season. Continue reading

AIOCC General Assembly – Inside Track

Following VeloViewer’s first year of partnership with AIOCC, we were delighted to attend the General Assembly in Copenhagen last week to meet with partners and race organisers. The event was a culmination of the 2025 cycling season, reviewing the successes of the year and challenges of 2026.

VeloViewer Office Manager Rachel attended alongside Director Ben, and journaled her time in Copenhagen highlighting the success of the collaboration with AIOCC. Continue reading

Cycling Safety and Risk Management with Dr Cormac Bryce

Dr Cormac Bryce headshotLast year we linked up with Dr Cormac Bryce of City St George’s, University of London, to discuss safety in cycling after reading his academic work on the subject. His study included in-depth analysis of factors that contributed to a high-profile safety incident on the track in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and the learnings to be taken from this. We were particularly interested in the parallels with other sports including Formula 1. The analysis sought to look broadly at contributing factors and relevant conceptual frameworks that help us to appreciate the complex nature of cycling safety.

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VeloViewer From a Race Organisers Perspective

WaymarkersAs the 2025 season gets underway, VeloViewer’s role of working with Race Organisers is more prevalent than ever, and is integral to improving race safety. From single day classics to Grand Tours, VeloViewer technology is playing a crucial role in race planning courtesy of the new contract with The Association Internationale des Organisateurs de Courses Cyclistes (AIOCC).

VeloViewer’s partnership with AIOCC means all members will now have access to the WorldTour App including all three Grand Tours, 34 UCI WorldTour events and 22 women’s races. The VeloViewer tools within the WorldTour package are designed to ensure a safer season, improving logistics and coordination for Race Organisers. 

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Intro to Tile Hunting Series – Sweet Treats

Photo credit: Jason Burns

Explorer tile hunting has been in the spotlight recently and becoming an increasingly popular pastime with VeloViewer users. If it’s new to you, discover how others are using the VeloViewer platform to collect tiles and give a new focus to their riding, which isn’t all about chasing KOMs/QOMs.

In our Intro to Tile Hunting Series find out from everyday riders their motivation to claim tiles, equipment they use, and the adventures along the way.

For British cyclist Jeffrey Ott tile hunting has helped to give him focus in the British winter, and when faced challenges claiming squares he’s resorted to offering home-baked goods to try and ‘sweet talk’ residents to let him gain access – unfortunately yet to be successful!

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Effects of the 2024 Strava Segment Declutter in VeloViewer

On 26th September 2024, Strava announced “Segment Updates: Verified Segments, Decluttering and Leaderboard FAQ’s“.  The goals are to remove duplicated as well as messy (bad GPS data) segments, tidy up the leaderboards (removing dodgy times) and to introduce “verified” segments.  The result should be tidier segment lists for your Strava activities.  Some of you will remember that in Jan 2021 almost all Zwift Virtual Ride segments were deleted (apart from Zwift-Insider’s segments used in the ZI leaderboard in VeloViewer ) which was a welcome relief to my API rate limits, given how many segments there used to be!

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