An audio slide show featured on the BBC Radio 4 website takes a look at the lessons that can be learned from British Cycling – the most successful team at the World Championships and Olympic Games. During the slide show the BBC Interviewer Adam Shaw met with Sir Chris Hoy who explained how the British Cycling team of coaches, athletes and support staff all aim for excellence in everything that they do. Over the last eight years we have worked very closely with British Cycling in the development of the Wattbike and have been impressed at every stage with the professionalism and focus on what it is that they are trying to acheive. British Cycling talk about the ‘aggregation of marginal gains’, they try and think of everything, and once they have thought of it, improve it. We have been able to benefit from that philosophy as we returned to them time after time with their previous tick list of requirements completed only to be presented with a new list. It was in that environment that the Wattbike was born and continues to develop. We are currently working on a number of developments to the software that should be available for download shortly.

Towards the end of the Audio Slide show Sir Chris also takes the opportunity to put Adam through the peak power test on the Wattbike to give him an idea of what it takes to be an Olympic Sprint Cyclist. Adam produces 992 Watts, compared to over 2300 Watts that Chris is able to produce. That can be a target for 2009!

Listen to the full Audio Slide show at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7796000/7796283.stm