The new road racing entrepreneurs: Elliott Colyer and the rise of rider-led initiatives
Graduating in the summer and already juggling a hill climb on ZigZag Hill, the launch of Aero CLCTV, and the dream of a new Nat B in Dorset, Elliott Colyer is part of a new generation of riders who aren’t waiting for British Cycling or veteran organisers to act — they’re taking matters into their own hands, reshaping the domestic scene with a mix of DIY spirit, business nous and Instagram savvy.
On a Sunday in early October, ZigZag Hill in Dorset will echo to the clatter of cowbells. Not just any hill climb — this one comes with family-friendly ZigZag Bingo cards for kids, a coffee stall, and a £1,000 prize pot. It’s the sort of inventive twist you don’t normally find at a club-run CTT event. But then again, 21-year-old Elliott Colyer isn’t trying to run just another hill climb.
Fresh from graduating university, Colyer is part of a new wave of riders who aren’t content to simply pin on a number and race. He’s launching his own Hampshire-based team, Aero CLCTV, plotting a new Nat B road race for Dorset, and reinventing what a grassroots event might look like. If the old guard of British road racing was built by seasoned club stalwarts, this is something different: a new generation of rider-organisers thinking like entrepreneurs, looking to build the sport’s future from the ground up.
The British Continental caught up with the young Dorset-based rider to find out about his plans.
Image: Paceline Media
British road racing has always leaned heavily on the devotion of long-standing volunteers. But with more events vanishing from the calendar and participation numbers low — “there was a period where I had… the Diss CC Summer road race, the Hackney CC road race … cancelled, and then the Clive Tiley stage race only had 34 people on the start list” recalls Colyer, part of a new generation is starting to step into the breach.
These are riders who aren’t waiting for governing bodies or clubs to fix things. They’re experimenting, hustling, and, crucially, creating. Colyer is one, but he’s not alone. The Yomp Bonk Crew has shown how to package a Nat B with personality. Seb Ottley has turned Goodwood into a fixture. In Scotland, Elijah Kwon’s Edinburgh Bike Fitting Race Team team is a student-led squad, while Ewan Mackie has built Ad Hoc Racing into a rider-driven project that takes British riders abroad on a shoestring. And more recently, Max Silifant’s Riders Collective project has stepped in to save the domestic road season’s finale.
We can’t all just sit around complaining because then nothing gets done. We have to go out and make the events we want to race ourselves
Colyer sees the trend clearly: “You can’t really hide from the fact that the scene’s not in a great way… We can’t all just sit around complaining because then nothing gets done. We have to go out and make the events we want to race ourselves.”
Where once the baton was passed down within clubs, these new entrepreneurs are making up their own playbooks — part organiser, part racer, part content creator. For Colyer, the answer has been to reach out, improvise, and learn by doing.
From hill climbs to first cat
Colyer didn’t grow up dreaming of running teams or races. His path into the sport was a late one, born out of lockdown. “I properly got started into training in COVID,” he explains. “After I finished sixth form, when I had a bit more time, I focused more seriously.”
His gateway was the hill climb scene — short, sharp, low-risk, and addictive. “It’s so simple. You just turn up, do five or so minutes, and you’re done. Low barrier to entry, low cost, and there’s no risk of crashing.” It suited a young rider still wary of the chaos of bunch racing.
Colyer (right) at the 2025 Mennocks Pass stage race with Matti Dobbins. Image: Corin Halliday
Guided by a coach, Colyer dipped into circuit races at Goodwood and Fraxton, where his father’s own passion for cycling provided a quiet backdrop of inspiration. “My dad was always a big cyclist when he was younger, so I think I was inspired by that, somewhat indirectly.”
From there he climbed the categories quickly — from fourth cat to second, then to first cat this year. Along the way, there were flashes of promise, most notably at the Mennocks Pass stage race in Scotland, where Colyer finished second overall. But by late summer, the stress of university and the sheer grind of the calendar began to bite. “The legs never fully came back around… my legs kind of left me and the motivation left me late August, so I decided to call it in slightly earlier than I had planned.”
If 2025 was his first proper road season, it also taught him something more valuable: that racing is fragile. Events cancel at short notice, the calendar thins out, and the sport needs people to step forward. That realisation is what set him on the path to becoming not just a rider, but an organiser and a builder.
The ZigZag experiment
“I was looking at the CTT [Cycling Time Trials] map,” Colyer says, “and I saw this massive gap in the Dorset–Hampshire area. You had some in Bristol, you had some the other side of Portsmouth, but this whole area had nothing.”
Then came a training ride up ZigZag Hill. “I thought, why isn’t there something here? This is a pretty iconic climb. Why isn’t there an event there?” His solution was typically straightforward: find a local club, ask the question, and make it happen. “I contacted a person at Poole Wheelers in a group chat and just said, ‘I need a promoting club for running it via CTT. Would you be happy for me to do it under your club?’ And they were.”
I wanted from the outset to make it bigger than just the bread and butter hill climb. Obviously, the competitive and logistical side has to be there, but I wanted cowbell atmosphere
From there, the project snowballed. “I wanted from the outset to make it bigger than just the bread and butter hill climb. Obviously, the competitive and logistical side has to be there, but I wanted cowbell atmosphere. I wanted a charity community aspect with the New Forest Bike Project, so there’ll be cowbells available for donation at HQ, and a bit of a kit drop too. It was like: what else can we add to make this more than just five minutes up a hill?”
Colyer’s approach was to cast the net wide. “I just reached out to anyone and everyone from the local scene that I thought would be interested. So I’ve got coffee from The Coffee Guys, who I’d seen at Thruxton and Goodwood, photography from PelotonPix — I’ve probably bought a lot of photos from him at this point — and then Alta Via Bicycle Components came on board after Luke Barfoot reached out and said, ‘This looks really cool. We’re trying to shake up the scene too.’ They ended up sponsoring the event with a £1,000 prize pot. That’s really, really great.”
Not that it was without challenges. “It was a fair amount to get your head round at first. Just a lot of learning. What boxes do I need to tick on the CTT side? How do I do a risk assessment? How do I do a traffic count? Police notification forms? None of the individual aspects are necessarily difficult, it’s just there’s not a how-to guide. It’s kind of known by a few people in a club who’ve done it for years, and it’s passed down. Coming from the outside, it was just finding my way through all the components.”
None of the individual aspects are necessarily difficult, it’s just there’s not a how-to guide … Coming from the outside, it was just finding my way through all the components
Even the buzz of support hasn’t erased the anxiety of entries. “Alta Via are also sponsoring another hill climb — Rumble on the Tumble — and we both have similar numbers, like low to mid-teens entries at the moment. It carries over from road racing as well: entries are slow, everyone seems to do it at the last moment.”
Still, Colyer’s focus has been on removing barriers and adding value. When one rider mentioned family commitments might stop him entering, Colyer came up with a simple solution: “I thought about it and mocked up a kids’ ZigZag Bingo spotter challenge. Instead of trying to convince your family to let you go, you bring them. We get more people cheering on the hill, it’s a better atmosphere, the kids are entertained, and the rider still gets to race.”
Building Aero CLCTV
If the hill climb is Colyer’s first venture into race promotion, the creation of Aero CLCTV is his parallel leap into team-building. It began, like so many of these projects, with frustration and a group of friends.
“We both were in teams,” he says of himself and co-founder Alex Stanley. “Alex was in Le Col Race Team and I was in TAAP. But it was just a case of… we hadn’t really raced with teammates. Especially with TAAP — a lot of their riders are up in Yorkshire, and if I’m down in Hampshire, I ended up not riding with teammates a whole bunch last year.”
So they started to ask: what if? “I thought, I have a strong group of mates I ride with down here, and we’re really strong. So let’s set up a strong local core of riders and see where we can take it.”
Image: PaceLine Media
The rider roster already reflects that mix of ambition and locality: Colyer, Stanley, Oscar Hoult (Defined Cycling), Archie Wright (Wolfox-CAMS-Le Col), and Charlie Palmer (Reflex Nopinz), with a sixth spot still open. The emphasis is on quality over quantity. “We’re keeping it small,” Colyer says. “The full launch is planned for 31 October, but we’ve already got that Hampshire core.”
We want to run it as a business, making sure we’re not super dependent on the whim of someone external to determine the success or financial stability of the team
The team’s ethos is clear: rider-led, collaborative, and disciplined. “We want to run it as a business, making sure we’re not super dependent on the whim of someone external to determine the success or financial stability of the team. We want to provide a platform for younger local talent to come through and hopefully move on to bigger and better teams in the future.”
Colyer is quick to clarify that this isn’t about running a company on the side — it’s about principles. “There’s no grand massive business plan, but it’s about financial strictness. We can scale ourselves to the finances we have. Potentially we can think about ways of monetising things, like selling a bit of club kit. Tekkerz do a brilliant job with Rapha — obviously we’re not going to do something at that scale, but taking those sorts of ideas.”
They also have a head start: Aero CLCTV already has an Instagram following of around 5,000, thanks to content Colyer, Stanley and Sam Shepherd have been putting out — training tips, race power data, rider spotlights. “It was just an account we set up because, kind of, why not? Then it turned into something a bit bigger than we thought. We realised we could use the audience to help kick-start the team.”
Early partnerships have come more quickly than expected. Alta Via Bicycle Components, already behind the ZigZag Hill Climb, extended their support to the team. “They’ve been incredibly generous and have given all of us a set of wheels to ride and race on next year. That was a very pleasant, great surprise.”
The goals for 2026 are pragmatic: Nat B podiums, racing aggressively, building a genuine team identity. “We asked the riders: what are your ambitions? Quite a few said things like: ‘get a cat 1 licence, podium in a Nat B, focus on the U23 Series’, but also, ‘be on a team where I can contribute to results’. Whether that’s working for others or taking success. Success next year is about being aggressive racers as a unit and leaving a mark on the UK scene.”
Any prize money gets shared between everyone who contributed to that win and that success. If we win as a team, we win together, not as individuals
To reinforce that ethos, Aero CLCTV will pool winnings. “Any prize money gets shared between everyone who contributed to that win and that success. If we win as a team, we win together, not as individuals.”
Longer term, Colyer has one eye on the Elite Development Team pathway. “The plan is to align with the Elite Development pathway, and in a couple of years become a recognised Elite Development Team. 2026 would be brilliant, but realistically it’s probably a little ambitious for the first year. 2027 feels achievable.”
For now, the priority is to get off the ground. “This year is about getting to that minimum viable product, then next year really giving it a kick start with sponsors and injections of support to see where we can take it.”
The Nat B ambition
For Colyer, though, the hill climb and the team are only stepping stones towards a bigger goal: putting on a National B road race in Dorset. And not just anywhere in Dorset — he wants it to centre on the very climb that inspired his first event.
“The thinking was… the hill climb is kind of like a toe in the water,” he explains. “A road race is a massive undertaking. Let’s get some experience running a smaller event first, then take those learnings.”
ZigZag Hill looms large in his plans, even if the logistics are daunting. “I’m not sure how you’d get down ZigZag Hill safely in a way that you could do in a road race, but the area has potential. There aren’t many road races there.”
Image: PelotonPix
The advice he’s gathered so far has been pragmatic: secure a course first, then go through British Cycling approvals. “Realistically, taking it on as a new organiser on my own would probably be foolhardy,” he admits. “So I’d be looking to get interest and help from other people.” He mentions riders like Gabe Dellar as potential allies in spirit. “Gabe said, ‘I also acknowledge that these events don’t just happen on their own. If we want the events we want to ride, someone has to put them on.’”
Colyer knows the importance of learning from others who’ve gone before. “If and when I take it on, I’d reach out to someone like Tom Hutchinson from Yomp Bonk Crew. They put on a great event — that’s an example of what you can create in a race weekend. Or to Seb Ottley, who obviously puts on tonnes of events at Goodwood. It’s about getting their help and guidance: what are the steps, what boxes do you need to tick?”
Timing is another factor. “Later in the season makes sense. It gives me more time to get it set up, and you’re not competing with as many events. The early season is full of big Nat Bs, but then it feels like the season peters out in August, July, August. If you can fill a spot in the calendar around that point, you’re not clashing unnecessarily.”
It’s an ambitious vision for someone only just out of university, but Colyer is realistic. “I’d love it to go ahead next year. But if there’s not enough time, or I don’t have the experience to get it through properly, at least I’ll be further down the path for 2027.”
The entrepreneur’s instinct
What marks Colyer out is that his entrepreneurial streak isn’t confined to cycling. Fresh from graduation, he’s already working on a business idea — an AI-powered learning system for students. “Universities are burying their heads in the sand when it comes to AI and learning,” he says. “Here’s a full system that’s backed by science and integrates AI mindfully to help you learn.”
The pattern is clear: whether it’s a hill climb, a racing team or a tech start-up, Colyer looks for gaps and builds something new. He’s not just preserving what’s already there; he’s trying to reimagine it.
If we want the events we want to ride, someone has to put them on
On 5 October, as riders grind their way up ZigZag Hill to the clang of cowbells and the cheers of families waving bingo cards, the scene will capture more than a local hill climb. It will be a glimpse of how a new generation is reshaping British road racing: rider-led, imaginative, entrepreneurial.
Colyer is modest about it all. “If we want the events we want to ride, someone has to put them on,” he says. But in combining a hill climb, a new team, and the seeds of a Nat B, he’s already proving that riders can do more than just race — they can be architects of the sport’s future.
The British calendar may look fragile, but with figures like Colyer — and his peers across the country — it also looks inventive. ZigZag might only be a short climb, but it’s the sort of launchpad from which something bigger could grow.
Aero CLCTV has one rider slot open, and Colyer says the team is keen to hear from local Hampshire or Dorset riders who might be interested in joining. Enquiries can be made via Instagram @AeroClctv or by email at aeroclctv@gmail.com.
On a Sunday in early October, ZigZag Hill in Dorset will echo to the clatter of cowbells. Not just any hill climb — this one comes with family-friendly ZigZag Bingo cards for kids, a coffee stall, and a £1,000 prize pot. It’s the sort of inventive twist you don’t normally find at a club-run CTT event. But then again, 21-year-old Elliott Colyer isn’t trying to run just another hill climb.
Fresh from graduating university, Colyer is part of a new wave of riders who aren’t content to simply pin on a number and race. He’s launching his own Hampshire-based team, Aero CLCTV, plotting a new Nat B road race for Dorset, and reinventing what a grassroots event might look like. If the old guard of British road racing was built by seasoned club stalwarts, this is something different: a new generation of rider-organisers thinking like entrepreneurs, looking to build the sport’s future from the ground up.
The British Continental caught up with the young Dorset-based rider to find out about his plans.
British road racing has always leaned heavily on the devotion of long-standing volunteers. But with more events vanishing from the calendar and participation numbers low — “there was a period where I had… the Diss CC Summer road race, the Hackney CC road race … cancelled, and then the Clive Tiley stage race only had 34 people on the start list” recalls Colyer, part of a new generation is starting to step into the breach.
These are riders who aren’t waiting for governing bodies or clubs to fix things. They’re experimenting, hustling, and, crucially, creating. Colyer is one, but he’s not alone. The Yomp Bonk Crew has shown how to package a Nat B with personality. Seb Ottley has turned Goodwood into a fixture. In Scotland, Elijah Kwon’s Edinburgh Bike Fitting Race Team team is a student-led squad, while Ewan Mackie has built Ad Hoc Racing into a rider-driven project that takes British riders abroad on a shoestring. And more recently, Max Silifant’s Riders Collective project has stepped in to save the domestic road season’s finale.
Colyer sees the trend clearly: “You can’t really hide from the fact that the scene’s not in a great way… We can’t all just sit around complaining because then nothing gets done. We have to go out and make the events we want to race ourselves.”
Where once the baton was passed down within clubs, these new entrepreneurs are making up their own playbooks — part organiser, part racer, part content creator. For Colyer, the answer has been to reach out, improvise, and learn by doing.
From hill climbs to first cat
Colyer didn’t grow up dreaming of running teams or races. His path into the sport was a late one, born out of lockdown. “I properly got started into training in COVID,” he explains. “After I finished sixth form, when I had a bit more time, I focused more seriously.”
His gateway was the hill climb scene — short, sharp, low-risk, and addictive. “It’s so simple. You just turn up, do five or so minutes, and you’re done. Low barrier to entry, low cost, and there’s no risk of crashing.” It suited a young rider still wary of the chaos of bunch racing.
Guided by a coach, Colyer dipped into circuit races at Goodwood and Fraxton, where his father’s own passion for cycling provided a quiet backdrop of inspiration. “My dad was always a big cyclist when he was younger, so I think I was inspired by that, somewhat indirectly.”
From there he climbed the categories quickly — from fourth cat to second, then to first cat this year. Along the way, there were flashes of promise, most notably at the Mennocks Pass stage race in Scotland, where Colyer finished second overall. But by late summer, the stress of university and the sheer grind of the calendar began to bite. “The legs never fully came back around… my legs kind of left me and the motivation left me late August, so I decided to call it in slightly earlier than I had planned.”
If 2025 was his first proper road season, it also taught him something more valuable: that racing is fragile. Events cancel at short notice, the calendar thins out, and the sport needs people to step forward. That realisation is what set him on the path to becoming not just a rider, but an organiser and a builder.
The ZigZag experiment
“I was looking at the CTT [Cycling Time Trials] map,” Colyer says, “and I saw this massive gap in the Dorset–Hampshire area. You had some in Bristol, you had some the other side of Portsmouth, but this whole area had nothing.”
Then came a training ride up ZigZag Hill. “I thought, why isn’t there something here? This is a pretty iconic climb. Why isn’t there an event there?” His solution was typically straightforward: find a local club, ask the question, and make it happen. “I contacted a person at Poole Wheelers in a group chat and just said, ‘I need a promoting club for running it via CTT. Would you be happy for me to do it under your club?’ And they were.”
From there, the project snowballed. “I wanted from the outset to make it bigger than just the bread and butter hill climb. Obviously, the competitive and logistical side has to be there, but I wanted cowbell atmosphere. I wanted a charity community aspect with the New Forest Bike Project, so there’ll be cowbells available for donation at HQ, and a bit of a kit drop too. It was like: what else can we add to make this more than just five minutes up a hill?”
Colyer’s approach was to cast the net wide. “I just reached out to anyone and everyone from the local scene that I thought would be interested. So I’ve got coffee from The Coffee Guys, who I’d seen at Thruxton and Goodwood, photography from PelotonPix — I’ve probably bought a lot of photos from him at this point — and then Alta Via Bicycle Components came on board after Luke Barfoot reached out and said, ‘This looks really cool. We’re trying to shake up the scene too.’ They ended up sponsoring the event with a £1,000 prize pot. That’s really, really great.”
Not that it was without challenges. “It was a fair amount to get your head round at first. Just a lot of learning. What boxes do I need to tick on the CTT side? How do I do a risk assessment? How do I do a traffic count? Police notification forms? None of the individual aspects are necessarily difficult, it’s just there’s not a how-to guide. It’s kind of known by a few people in a club who’ve done it for years, and it’s passed down. Coming from the outside, it was just finding my way through all the components.”
Even the buzz of support hasn’t erased the anxiety of entries. “Alta Via are also sponsoring another hill climb — Rumble on the Tumble — and we both have similar numbers, like low to mid-teens entries at the moment. It carries over from road racing as well: entries are slow, everyone seems to do it at the last moment.”
Still, Colyer’s focus has been on removing barriers and adding value. When one rider mentioned family commitments might stop him entering, Colyer came up with a simple solution: “I thought about it and mocked up a kids’ ZigZag Bingo spotter challenge. Instead of trying to convince your family to let you go, you bring them. We get more people cheering on the hill, it’s a better atmosphere, the kids are entertained, and the rider still gets to race.”
Building Aero CLCTV
If the hill climb is Colyer’s first venture into race promotion, the creation of Aero CLCTV is his parallel leap into team-building. It began, like so many of these projects, with frustration and a group of friends.
“We both were in teams,” he says of himself and co-founder Alex Stanley. “Alex was in Le Col Race Team and I was in TAAP. But it was just a case of… we hadn’t really raced with teammates. Especially with TAAP — a lot of their riders are up in Yorkshire, and if I’m down in Hampshire, I ended up not riding with teammates a whole bunch last year.”
So they started to ask: what if? “I thought, I have a strong group of mates I ride with down here, and we’re really strong. So let’s set up a strong local core of riders and see where we can take it.”
The rider roster already reflects that mix of ambition and locality: Colyer, Stanley, Oscar Hoult (Defined Cycling), Archie Wright (Wolfox-CAMS-Le Col), and Charlie Palmer (Reflex Nopinz), with a sixth spot still open. The emphasis is on quality over quantity. “We’re keeping it small,” Colyer says. “The full launch is planned for 31 October, but we’ve already got that Hampshire core.”
The team’s ethos is clear: rider-led, collaborative, and disciplined. “We want to run it as a business, making sure we’re not super dependent on the whim of someone external to determine the success or financial stability of the team. We want to provide a platform for younger local talent to come through and hopefully move on to bigger and better teams in the future.”
Colyer is quick to clarify that this isn’t about running a company on the side — it’s about principles. “There’s no grand massive business plan, but it’s about financial strictness. We can scale ourselves to the finances we have. Potentially we can think about ways of monetising things, like selling a bit of club kit. Tekkerz do a brilliant job with Rapha — obviously we’re not going to do something at that scale, but taking those sorts of ideas.”
They also have a head start: Aero CLCTV already has an Instagram following of around 5,000, thanks to content Colyer, Stanley and Sam Shepherd have been putting out — training tips, race power data, rider spotlights. “It was just an account we set up because, kind of, why not? Then it turned into something a bit bigger than we thought. We realised we could use the audience to help kick-start the team.”
Early partnerships have come more quickly than expected. Alta Via Bicycle Components, already behind the ZigZag Hill Climb, extended their support to the team. “They’ve been incredibly generous and have given all of us a set of wheels to ride and race on next year. That was a very pleasant, great surprise.”
The goals for 2026 are pragmatic: Nat B podiums, racing aggressively, building a genuine team identity. “We asked the riders: what are your ambitions? Quite a few said things like: ‘get a cat 1 licence, podium in a Nat B, focus on the U23 Series’, but also, ‘be on a team where I can contribute to results’. Whether that’s working for others or taking success. Success next year is about being aggressive racers as a unit and leaving a mark on the UK scene.”
To reinforce that ethos, Aero CLCTV will pool winnings. “Any prize money gets shared between everyone who contributed to that win and that success. If we win as a team, we win together, not as individuals.”
Longer term, Colyer has one eye on the Elite Development Team pathway. “The plan is to align with the Elite Development pathway, and in a couple of years become a recognised Elite Development Team. 2026 would be brilliant, but realistically it’s probably a little ambitious for the first year. 2027 feels achievable.”
For now, the priority is to get off the ground. “This year is about getting to that minimum viable product, then next year really giving it a kick start with sponsors and injections of support to see where we can take it.”
The Nat B ambition
For Colyer, though, the hill climb and the team are only stepping stones towards a bigger goal: putting on a National B road race in Dorset. And not just anywhere in Dorset — he wants it to centre on the very climb that inspired his first event.
“The thinking was… the hill climb is kind of like a toe in the water,” he explains. “A road race is a massive undertaking. Let’s get some experience running a smaller event first, then take those learnings.”
ZigZag Hill looms large in his plans, even if the logistics are daunting. “I’m not sure how you’d get down ZigZag Hill safely in a way that you could do in a road race, but the area has potential. There aren’t many road races there.”
The advice he’s gathered so far has been pragmatic: secure a course first, then go through British Cycling approvals. “Realistically, taking it on as a new organiser on my own would probably be foolhardy,” he admits. “So I’d be looking to get interest and help from other people.” He mentions riders like Gabe Dellar as potential allies in spirit. “Gabe said, ‘I also acknowledge that these events don’t just happen on their own. If we want the events we want to ride, someone has to put them on.’”
Colyer knows the importance of learning from others who’ve gone before. “If and when I take it on, I’d reach out to someone like Tom Hutchinson from Yomp Bonk Crew. They put on a great event — that’s an example of what you can create in a race weekend. Or to Seb Ottley, who obviously puts on tonnes of events at Goodwood. It’s about getting their help and guidance: what are the steps, what boxes do you need to tick?”
Timing is another factor. “Later in the season makes sense. It gives me more time to get it set up, and you’re not competing with as many events. The early season is full of big Nat Bs, but then it feels like the season peters out in August, July, August. If you can fill a spot in the calendar around that point, you’re not clashing unnecessarily.”
It’s an ambitious vision for someone only just out of university, but Colyer is realistic. “I’d love it to go ahead next year. But if there’s not enough time, or I don’t have the experience to get it through properly, at least I’ll be further down the path for 2027.”
The entrepreneur’s instinct
What marks Colyer out is that his entrepreneurial streak isn’t confined to cycling. Fresh from graduation, he’s already working on a business idea — an AI-powered learning system for students. “Universities are burying their heads in the sand when it comes to AI and learning,” he says. “Here’s a full system that’s backed by science and integrates AI mindfully to help you learn.”
The pattern is clear: whether it’s a hill climb, a racing team or a tech start-up, Colyer looks for gaps and builds something new. He’s not just preserving what’s already there; he’s trying to reimagine it.
On 5 October, as riders grind their way up ZigZag Hill to the clang of cowbells and the cheers of families waving bingo cards, the scene will capture more than a local hill climb. It will be a glimpse of how a new generation is reshaping British road racing: rider-led, imaginative, entrepreneurial.
Colyer is modest about it all. “If we want the events we want to ride, someone has to put them on,” he says. But in combining a hill climb, a new team, and the seeds of a Nat B, he’s already proving that riders can do more than just race — they can be architects of the sport’s future.
The British calendar may look fragile, but with figures like Colyer — and his peers across the country — it also looks inventive. ZigZag might only be a short climb, but it’s the sort of launchpad from which something bigger could grow.
Aero CLCTV has one rider slot open, and Colyer says the team is keen to hear from local Hampshire or Dorset riders who might be interested in joining. Enquiries can be made via Instagram @AeroClctv or by email at aeroclctv@gmail.com.
Featured image: McCart Media
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