Gene Nacey, Chief Cycling Officer
412-708-3883
gene@cyclingfusion.com
http://indoorcyclingfusion.com
About Cycling Fusion
Cycling Fusion® is a company dedicated to bringing the best of indoor and outdoor cycling together through technology, education, and video content. We endeavor to provide everything you need indoors, to improve your riding outdoors.
In the local studio, gym, and health club we provide comprehensive Indoor Cycling programs, Instructor certification, teaching tools and education as well as sponsoring local racing teams and charity rides. On the national and international scene, we offer a full set of training resources to provide the continuity between the indoor training and the outdoor riding. Cycling Fusion™ aims to bring more outdoor cyclists inside to train, and encourages and equips indoor cyclists to experience the joys and adventure of riding outside.
History
Whether you are a student, an instructor, someone who loves to race, a Spinning® instructor, an outdoor coach, an unabashed indoor-only rider, a connoisseur of all things Rails To Trails, a Charity Ride addict (MS 150s, Tour de Cures, Team in Training) or just obsessed with vacationing on two wheels – you will find Cycling Fusion's method and approach a perfect fit for your indoor experience.
In other words, could this indoor activity be transformed into a real training program for cyclists, rather than just a good group cardio activity? We loved the energy and the fun of the typical class, but we needed more ‘meat’ on the bones. The result was the founding of Cycling Fusion, where the main objective was to bring the best of both worlds together.
This was also the rationale behind the name Cycling Fusion, and the idea was then documented in what I called the Cycling Fusion Manifesto. OK, so it was a little grandiose to call it that, but what I was asking or hoping for would take millions of dollars from the manufacturers in addition to changes in the behavior and mind-set of club owners. It provided a concrete way to describe, solidify and communicate a vision for what indoor cycling could become, and how the two disparate worlds of indoor and outdoor cycling could begin to help each other grow. Here is the first sentence, and you can read the rest by clicking on the link below:
“We believe that lives will be enriched in multiple ways when indoor riders discover cycling outside, and outdoor riders experience the fun and performance improvements that good indoor group cycling can deliver.”
Cycling Fusion In the Fitness Community
Despite the power of Indoor Cycling to impact outdoor riding, it's a well known fact that, by in large, cyclists are very poorly represented indoors. The vast majority of riders in Spinning® class do not ride outdoors; neither MTB nor Road riders. In fact, at many studios, gyms and commercial health clubs, not one of the instructors rides outside beyond an occasional trail on vacation or ride with the kids around the neighborhood.
Consequently, this group is left to find "alternatives" to training when faced with either bad weather, or a schedule too busy to accommodate such training. The solution may be as simple as having a couple instructors certified by the leading company to "fuse" (yes, we went there :-) both the indoor and the outdoor; Cycling Fusion!