On the road, you can coast, change gears, or roll down hills \u2014 but on the track, it\u2019s all about smooth, constant power. No gears. No freewheeling. This forces you to focus almost entirely on the rate of force production throughout each pedal stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That means track cycling helps you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
✅ Improve pedalling technique<\/p>\n\n\n\n
✅ Build smoother power delivery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
✅ Hold steady efforts for longer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Riding track will help you become much faster and more consistent once you take these habits back to your road bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
👉 Join one of our free taster sessions each Thursday in October and see what a few laps on the track can do for your pedalling! And once you\u2019ve caught the bug, track bike hire is available for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Register for a session at https:\/\/www.webscorer.com\/cyclingotago<\/a> or learn more at https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/?page_id=3211<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the road, you can coast, change gears, or roll down hills \u2014 but on the track, it\u2019s all about smooth, constant power. No gears. No freewheeling. This forces you to focus almost entirely on the rate of force production throughout each pedal stroke. That means track cycling helps you: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/465611732_17910211944023298_140643963508274321_n-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}