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Wiggo Whaam shoes.png11 things we've learnt this week
1. Wiggo’s new shoes, designed by Jimbo Phillips, were inspired by a Paul Weller guitar that was inspired by a Roy Lichtenstein artwork that was inspired by a panel from a DC Comics publication.
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2. The 2018 Giro d’Italia is going to start in Japan, according to reports.
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3. The world’s loudest bike alarm is 150 decibels and its creator also holds the record for the world’s smallest caravan.
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4. Rapha’s pricing still sets the road.cc forum abuzz.
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5. Janet Street-Porter believes cyclists “won’t be happy until all other forms of transport are eradicated.”
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6. You can buy Bontrager shoes featuring Jens Voigt’s ‘Shut up legs’ signature phrase.
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7. French law bans media advertising of any drink with an alcohol content of more than 1.2% at a sporting event.
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8. Marcel Kittel has won four stages of the Giro d’Italia in his career, but none of them in Italy.
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9. Metal bands Slayer and Rammstein have both launched their own bike designs.
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10. Woody Allen isn’t a big fan of cycling.
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11. 588 tickets were handed out for cycling crimes in Ireland last year, 444 of them in Dublin.
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Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
This was a very good listing of bikes for under 1,000....
Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
Quite so, which is why our village 20mph zone covers the whole residential extent. Of course, enforcement is another thing..
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No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
What's wrong with dropping down on to the Millenium Bridge, or the swing bridge, then the brief, but satisfying climb back up the hill? #training....
The relatives might of course disagree, but in general I'd countenance a relatively light sentence* if only we could fix it so that those who...
Id forgotten that I got a second hand set of project two's for my getting to work bike over twenty years back.
My bet is that all these tires popping off are from people with bad pressure gauges or they're simply just putting too much air in on purpose. ...
David9694 - you were right! These new autonomous vehicles really are conspiring to run out of control!...