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Alex Bowden

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Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn’t especially like cake.  
HSBC UK National Cycling Centre (picture copyright British Cycling)

GB men’s endurance coach allegedly escorted from Manchester velodrome amid rumours of sacking

Talk of ‘rider revolt’
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London cyclists (CC licensed by Ambernectar 13:Flickr)

City planning report recommends squeezing out London motor traffic

Suggests reclaiming roadside car parking space and extending Oyster card system to include bike hire schemes

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Olympic road race 2012

‘We need to microchip athletes to prevent doping’ says World Olympians Association chief exec

Says current system only records data at a particular moment in time
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Cambridgeshire police

Police and Crime Commissioner fails to address concerns over Cambridge police’s position on close passes

Casualty reduction officer’s comments appeared to imply that close passes of cyclists are acceptable
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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)

Police hunting Birmingham driver who twice mounted kerb in pursuit of cyclist before eventually running him over

Victim left with broken collarbone and tyre marks on his body
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Phil Deeker (Jered and Ashley Gruber).jpg

Phil Deeker rides 1,000 cols in 100 days

British endurance rider marks his 60th birthday with rather a lot of climbing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-NiWjp9bY

Near miss of the day 38: HGV pulls out on cyclist who then has to accelerate to make himself visible

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s London

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Lance Armstrong Photo by Maryse Alberti, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Lance Armstrong sticks boot into David Walsh over character reference for paedophile

Walsh says he ‘could not abandon’ friend who has pleaded guilty to six offences
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Tour de France logo.jpg

Gravel roads in 2018 Tour de France and L’Etape du Tour

Summit finish atop Alpe d’Huez and cobbles on stage between Compiegne and Roubaix
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Laurens de Plus crash (via Twitter).jpg

Video: Belgian pro escapes without serious injury after going over barrier in Tour of Lombardy

2015 winner Vincenzo Nibali again wins the final Monument of the season
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