Simon Burney

Simon Burney spent three years racing the professional cyclo-cross circuit before an injury forced him into team management. For the past twenty years, Burney has been managing cyclo-cross and mountain bike teams.

As a manager and the creator of the Ace Racing Team along with professional mountain bike teams throughout the 1990s, Simon was privileged to work with the finest 'cross riders of that generation: world champions Dominique Arnould and Henrik Djernis, plus Beat Wabel, and Peter Van Den Abeele, among others. Simon served as manager of the Great Britain mountain bike team in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. In the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, he was manager of the English team. From 2000 to 2007, Simon worked for British Cycling as the performance manager of their mountain bike and cyclo-cross teams, and continued to manage the national team at the world championships until 2009. The 2011 World Championships at St Wendel, Germany was Simon's thirtieth consecutive year at Worlds as either a rider, mechanic, team manager, or spectator, and he vows to keep going until an English speaker (preferably a Brit!) wins the elite race. Since 2007 Simon has worked as a Technical Delegate for the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) and is currently the Sports coordinator for Cross County Mountain Bike. He has written a popular book which is on its 3rd Edition named Cyclocross: Training and Technique.