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11 things we’ve learnt this week

Weird and wonderful stuff from the last seven days on road.cc

It’s possible to have a two-piece bicycle with entirely separate front and rear sections.
Read more here.
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The record for cycling from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa, is 38 days.`
Read more here.

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Knicker elastic and a walking stick can be vital pieces of equipment in a motor-paced cycle land speed record.
Read more here.

Copenhagen will have a bridge for cyclists and walkers more than 200ft above ground level.
Read more here.

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There’s such a thing as a protein-rich doughnut, called a pronut.
Read more here.

There’s a world championships for indoor cycling – the cycling version of synchronised swimming.
See the video here.

The longest retro cycling event in the world will take place in the Lake District next year. 
Read more here.
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You can play football on a bike.
Read more here.
Unscheduled detour into the Trent and Mersey (taken from Google Maps via Strava).jpg
Strava can record the evidence of you riding into a canal.
Read more here.
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You can ride on Zwift in a virtual road.cc jersey.
​Read more here.

The world could save up up $25 trillion in infrastructure costs by 2050 by going two-wheeled.
Read more here.
 

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. 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.

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