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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Owain Doull forced to miss Team Sky WorldTour debut due to ruptured appendix

Shortened stage of Tour Down Under was won by Orica-Scott's Caleb Ewan
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Video: Joaquim Rodriguez posts footage of spectacular crash – but it’s not him

Retired pro's social media post sparks alarm among followers - but there are clues all is not as it seems
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Michael Knudsen’s Bkool set up for his Seven Summits challenge (source Facebook).jpg

“I’ll see your Everesting, and I’ll raise you the Seven Summits … on a turbo trainer”

Danish cyclist Michael Knudsen is 'climbing' 45,000 metres - equivalent to combined height of highest peak on each continent
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Video: Mike Cotty takes on Gran Canaria’s 44km monster climb

Col Collective's first video of 2017 was shot on Atlantic island's Pico de las Nieves
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Video: Amazing skills as BMX ace Bas Keep rides down walls

Brighton and Croydon among the locations - and there's also a 'making-of' documentary
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Video: Cyclist stops mid ride to save cow’s life – by delivering her calf

Incident happened in Galicia, northwest Spain over the weekend
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France makes cycle helmets compulsory for children aged 11 and under

New law will come into effect from 22 March
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French MP’s call to criminalise mechanical doping rejected

Secretary of state for sport says government will produce report on the issue by the end of the year
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg9-axPBw1g

Man who was Damien child actor in The Omen sentenced for assaulting cyclists

An unhappy Friday The 13th for star of cult 1970s horror movie as he is sentenced

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Gritting of London Cycle Superhighways – a case of hit or miss?

TfL prepares Red Routes for winter weather, but much of CS1 missing from Hackney's gritter lorry route
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