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16/10/2025

Next up, Tom Hassell joins our junior boys team for another year! 👏

15/10/2025

Next for our junior boys team, we welcome back Davey for the 2026 season!🙌

14/10/2025

Welcome back Charlie… we can’t wait to watch you progress in the 2026 season!

14/10/2025

While we have loads of news dripping through on the older teams and riders it is important we remember where it all starts with the kids.
Last weekend this lot hit the CX race organised by CSP in Burnley. Eliza, Isla, Bailey, William, Max and James all represented the next generation of riders really well. It's great to step back and see things like this that just happen week in week out.

13/10/2025

We are super excited to announce our men’s Junior Team. First up … Cameron Hounsell!

13/10/2025

Ok so first big announcement of the week.
Over the last 3 months we have been talking to a lot of experienced people about running our U23 men's development team in 2026.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to talk with us and offer advice.
We wanted something just a bit different:
1. Young Joe and Simon are ok and have their place, but we could see with Tom last year that young people can bring a real energy to projects.
2. Able to ride with the riders, a DS stood at the side of the road is not much use. We found this year having Tristan ride with the juniors in races really helped them develop.
3. Understand and have first hand experience of what makes a good and bad manager / DS.
4. Understand that some riders need development and that it's not just about who is best at 17.
5. Live local so they can work and meet with the riders early, doing drills with them.
6. Someone we (360), can help support and grow. Aiming to help them become the best DS in the UK over a period of time. That means being open to returning into education and pushing themselves just as much as the team and the project.
7. Someone that has our respect and trust.

It turned out that the perfect person for the role was right in front of us all the time.....so it gives us great pleasure to announce "Joshua Whitehead" as the U23 development team boss for 2026.

This is a bold move for 360, going with someone so young, but for us .....we couldn't be more happy.

Josh is someone we have known and ridden with since he was 16. Over that time it's been great watching him develop as a rider, self coached to win the Lancaster GP, move to the British UCI team, Sungod. Before moving to France. He became a serial winner in both top British and French races over the following years.
He started to work directly with riders for 360 in 2023. During that time, he put himself through various coaching courses and really progressed as a mentor. Worth saying you don't often see that in someone so young.

So, today marks day one in our new chapter and in Joe's words, "We got our man! When I made Josh the offer to take over the running of the team it was speculative, but I also felt it made perfect sense, we can provide a wage, support and much of the Hardwear needed is already in place. We have what looks like a conveyor belt of talent in the northwest and our vision is still to build something quite special over the coming two years that will help talented young riders from the region progress. People young and enthusiastic like Josh are key to making that journey sustainable"

So please join us in celebrating, "Joe, getting his man" by welcoming Josh into the primary role.

WELCOME JOSH! 😉

13/10/2025

https://www.360coached.co.uk/book-online.
18:00-19:00 kids or new to bike riders. 19:00-21:00 faster group. All welcome.

Tomorrow (Tuesday night) Tameside academy and tight chain sessions are running. Book on and join the fun.

11/10/2025

So pleasing to see such a good lad pushing himself, the article is a pretty good read for anyone that does not really know Tom Booth .
Tom also does some coaching for 360, in 2025 we hooked him up with Stephen an older gentleman from the Lancashire area. With the support of 360 Tom had an athlete he could train and develop, putting into practice the academic knowledge he acquired from two years at Burnley college and continued to work at while studying at Bath University in 2024-2025
While we find education in an academic form is crucial, we also know that building the social aspect of a coach - athlete relationship plays a massive part. Below are some words from the gentleman Tom works with "Stephen"

"Morning Joe,

He’s a fantastic lad and any improvement I’ve made is entirely down to him, his attention to detail in my aim to complete the half marathon next year has blown my mind. He has given the project a lot of thought and enthusiasm.
Tom is in contact with me daily, I have said that it’s not necessary when he’s got other things on but he insists on it,very commendable for a young man on the other side of the world.
Cracking lad and I hope he gets all the success he deserves!"

For 360 to be able to support young people like Tom is very rewarding however, Tom is also a massive support to the project. Of the fee Stephen pays Tom puts £40 of it back into the project to help support young riders and the team development. Tom does this without question, knowing he is gaining vital knowledge that is helping him grow life skills that will massively help him in the future.

Now in the USA for a year (please read the article) we wanted to give him something back, so we asked him to find a reasonable bike at the right price and let us help him purchase it, he is now loving the gravel riding and making new friends while sporting our new million dollar black shorts along side other kit we sent away with him.

Joe says " having coached and worked with Tom over the last 3 years I have got to know him pretty well, in 2023 we had a target to win a road race and together (despite Aidan trying to chase him down 🤣) he achieved his goal. Winning a road race I tell everyone is far less common than people think and never a easy thing to do!

But it was this year and the time I spent in the team car with him that really bought us super close together, he bought a level of enthusiasm and energy to car that I have not seen before, bringing the very best out of me.
That enthusiasm obviously rubbed off on the riders too as they all lifted their game. I am sure next year when back you will see him in the car again at both male and female races, the lad is infectious"

As we move forward with some very exciting plans in 2026 and beyond we know Tom will have a key role to play and we cannot wait. Look out for announcements next week!

Tom Booth moves to Stillwater, Oklahoma from England to work with the Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute.

10/10/2025

Pure chaos once again at CX training 🫣😂

10/10/2025

Last bit of housekeeping before we release 2026 very exciting plans.

Time to say goodbye to the coolest rider on the block Mr Jake Edwards!

Jake is a rider we had watched for years, he has always been a super strong racer but possibly lacked the depth for top level national racing on the road.

He worked and raced for fun, winning 3/4 races for fun in the south lakes area. As our own project progressed our boys like Patrick Casey loved racing against him, the way he rode his bike always commanded respect.

As a result in 2024 we did approach him about being part of our U23 team, but the timing was not right. We must have left a good impression though as by the end of 2024 he contacted us again to inquire about riding for us in 2025.

For us it was a very easy yes! But we did have some things to work through with him first.

From race one in 360 kit we loved what he brought to the team. In his first race the Clayton classic, Jake attacked with more than half the race to go opening up a 60s+ lead for much of the race, however with 7 miles left he cracked and ended up getting caught and spat.

But what everyone could see that day......"we have a front foot rider who rides to win". It's hard not to love that about Jake.

Race 2, the 2 peaks stage race, much the same from Jake. He hit every stage as though it was the last and on stage 3 with 10 miles to go.....(After 130 miles of racing) He was clear in a small break and virtual on the road race leader! At what is probably as hard a race as you will find in the UK.

Unfortunately Jake once again cracked in the last 10 miles, but once again he had shown that brilliant swashbuckling style that we have come to love.

Over the rest of the year Jake raced in Germany, France and the Pyrenees for 360, pushing hard day in day and out, he showed that he could mix it in the hardest non pro races in Europe and national and UCI level.

He came back to the UK to podium in National A races and support his team mates. At times with his team they blocked out podiums.

Jake has really helped the project move forward this year by simply being himself and that's a really big compliment to give. Being yourself and giving all you can for the team in his short time with us.

The project at 360 has been a perfect fit for Jake this year to develop as a rider, gain high quality experience and then try to go to the next level.

Jake alongside Max joins Zappi in 2026 and it will be a lot of fun seeing how these two 360 riders fair at one of Europe's top non professional teams.

Really wishing you the very best of luck Jake 2025 has been a blast!

09/10/2025

Time to say goodbye. This one was always going to come with mixed emotions.
Maxwell rides one last time for 360 this weekend in the national close circuit TT champs. But where did it start.

Max joined the project close to 4 years ago. A boy we met in McDonald's for a chat after he had taken part in the early season Rossendale TT near Bashall.

We did not know Max and he came across quite reserved and a little bit unsure of what he wanted or how he felt about his cycling.

Max had been a top draw youth Rider and enjoyed a lot of success with CSP, they had a quite brilliant squad of kids.

We quickly noticed the boy had potential but had lost a lot of time or missed a lot of time during the COVID period. Something that also affected his health.

The first year being coached by 360 was about getting him back racing and helping him build. we tried some racing and even at 3/4 level he was not yet ready, but the potential was clear to see. The rest of the year was really hard, training and looking to build. This is not something that's mentally easy for a young rider, the hits of getting dropped can really hit deep.
To his credit Max got his head around things and soon understood that his first year as a junior would be about becoming the best 2nd year he could be.

Year 2 he had legs and at times he showed real class racing against a bit of a golden generation.
Solo victories at the IOM and local crits came thick and fast. He put in a super rider at the junior tour of Wales and finished the season strong.

He played a key part in 360 starting a u23 team, with his mates they enjoyed a super first year, they represented 360 in our first ever UCI race and further national level racing in France.

The pathway created that year (2024) really moved 360 forward. Max played a key role in that process.

Over the winter months max really helped keep the project moving by supporting younger riders at tameside sessions, the time he spent pacing young riders like Harper around the track has proven invaluable. The project always encourages senior riders to support riders coming through and I know the work he has put into the kids is a contributing factor to their success.

We have some very happy memories of getting Max to events, even squeezed himself plus two others and 3 time trail bikes into a Tesla 🤣

At times he has proved a good sounding block to offer advice in all areas, but in particular young riders.

Joe
"The time I have spent working with Max has been exceptional, like all young people he has had his own issues, but like all old people I too have had mine. The journey we have been through together has played a massive part in my life and it's certainly enriched it greatly, at times it's hard not to treat him as a son".

After a solid 2025 the time has come for Max to really commit to his cycling and the best place to do that is to be living like a professional day in and day out, moving to Zappi will help him grow as a full time cyclist and give him greater day to day focus without distractions.

All the very very best Maxwell make us proud!!!!!