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Swiss Side Wind tunnel 14.jpg11 things we’ve learnt this week
1 Wind tunnels aren’t necessarily tunnels, and the big fan at one end doesn’t blow, it sucks.
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2 There’s an official world record for the most steps climbed on a road bike.
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3 The government is backing a bid to bring the UCI Road World Championships to the UK.
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4 Lord Sugar owns a Pinarello Dogma K8-S in Union Jack colours.
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5 Team Sky’s Salvatore Puccio raced 13,441km (8,352 miles) last season.
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6 Rapha has a climate controlled chamber where you can try out clothing on a static bike before you buy.
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7 There’s such a thing as the European Bike Stealing Championships. Kind of.
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8 The Italian word for ‘icebreaker’ is ‘rompighiaccio’, and Adidas has used it as the name for a new cycling jacket.
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9 It’s possible to make a 90,000 lumen light.
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10 That Copenhagen cycling bridge in the sky that was in the news last week turned out to be pie in the sky.
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11 The furthest anyone has cycled underwater is 6,708m.
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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. 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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