Ya podemos anunciarlo, el día 17 de Junio volvemos a la carretera!!! Esta vez nuestro reto será Madrid- Oporto, con unos desniveles positivos de 9500m y más de 600 km!!! “We can already announce, on June 17 return to the road !!! This time our challenge will be to Madrid Oporto, with positive slopes of […]
Inspired by Isadore Apparel’s #ThisIsMyClimb I got to thinking about my favourite hill. At 82 kg (on a good day) or a shade under 13 stone (181 lbs for our US friends) the words ‘hill’ and ‘favourite’ are not terms you will usually find me using in the same sentence. If Conquista had a hashtag […]
We love ricecakes. Inspired by Brad and the boys, we made them for our ever-so-epic ride of Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Issue 7). Ricecakes are cool. Ubercool. We eat ricecakes. But are they as good as corndogs? You be the judge….
Second in our series of Team Velocio-SRAM rider playlists is Italian Sprinter “Baby” Barbara Guarischi. Some “eyebrow-raising” selections on this list which we are guessing does not get much airtime in Kristy’s car either… Thanks to the team for this insight into what is currently rocking their world when training or getting psyched to race. You […]
Two years ago to the day, we’d just arrived in our Roubaix hotel, raided a nearby supermarket for anything vaguely edible, and were nervously contemplating our ‘assault’ on the monster pavé of the Hell of the North. From our debut Issue 0 – here is the piece in its entirety. Enjoy…. (full text below)… Like […]
New for 2015 we bring to you our Conquista Q&A. In partnership with Scott and John at Velocast, we will regularly interview a prominent character from the world of professional cycling and place the audio content under our “audio” tab in the menu for you to listen to. Each month we will pose questions from a similar list of teasers, […]
We regularly update our instagram gallery with images from races and other events we attend from time to time – or just we stuff we see while out on our bikes. Send us your photos @Conquistacc. If you hashtag your own uploads to twitter @Conquistacc with #Conquistargram they will appear in our dedicated facebook gallery […]
Kicking-off the first in a new series of regular monthly features we spoke to Velocia-SRAM’s Canadian “Pocket-Rocket” Karol-Ann Canuel to find out what she’s listening to at the moment. What motivates her training on the rollers or turbo trainer, or how she warm’s up for a Time Trial. Team Boss Kristy Scrymgeour is not over-impressed […]
We had a lot of fun reading your short stories – submitted for our inaugural Fiction Competition. So much so that we printed two of the entries in Issue 6 instead of the planned 1. Thanks to Kathryn @MiniBearTravels and Colin @MoonrakerVelo for their great contributions. We also decided to run the competition again for Issue […]
Apple Newsstand and Android App are live Click here for Newsstand and here for Android Thanks to Magzter, we are now able to offer readers the ability to read Conquista magazine in Apple’s Newsstand and Android on Google Play. Our Music Playlist for Issue 6 can be viewed here. The audio of the interview with BORA – Argon 18, Team Manager, Ralph Denk, can be accessed here.