My Training Space: 'Cycling is all about fun for me – enjoy it while you can!'

Sportive rider and Cancellara-beater Ian Beard shows us around his memorabilia-filled cabin

Ian Beard outside his training shed
(Image credit: Future)

Each month in this MY TRAINING SPACE series from Cycling Weekly’s print edition, a CW reader shows us around their training room, shed or garage, the part of their home or garden dedicated to all things cycling. They talk us through the equipment, as well as the motivating keepsakes and decorations that keep them training hard. If you’d like to show us around your training space, email a photo to david.bradford@futurenet.com. This time, it’s the turn of Ian Beard…

During lockdown we bought a wooden cabin for the garden. My wife had had enough of my turbo being set up in the front room. From Christmas 2020 onwards, it was ready to go – with enough space for all my bikes and kit. It’s been a great little space. 

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David Bradford
Features editor

David Bradford is features editor of Cycling Weekly (print edition). He has been writing and editing professionally for more than 15 years, and has published work in national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, the Irish Times, Vice.com and Runner’s World. Alongside his love of cycling, David is a long-distance runner with a marathon PB of two hours 28 minutes. Having been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in 2006, he also writes about sight loss and hosts the podcast Ways of Not Seeing.