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worlds-coldest-bike-race.png11 things we’ve learnt this week
The world’s coldest bike race took place at a temperature of -43°C.
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Cycling while wearing earphones is illegal in California.
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Sunday 7 June was the most active day on Strava in the last year, and users clocked up a total of 4 billion kilometres.
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Mark Cavendish is targeting the Tour de France yellow jersey, and Olympic medal and the World Championships Road Race in 2016.
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There’s a new helmet out there that provides a collision avoidance alert.
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It’s possible to evade Australian police while riding a bicycle naked.
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World Champion Peter Sagan’s new bike features the names of all the previous World Champions.
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German athletes who test positive for banned performance-enhancing substances could face three years in prison.
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Head-up display could become more of a feature of cycling now that Garmin has got involved.
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People riding through a puddle – and finding other means of getting through/around it – constitutes entertainment to more people than you might have thought.
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Slower cyclists are apparently more likely to be involved in collisions than faster riders.
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The number of cyclists prosecuted for ignoring road signs has doubled in the past four years.
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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.
That lorry driver was taking no prisoners and I'd have reported the pickup.
Collateral damage of the ongoing war on motorists?
The TRO for this junction allows cycles through this "bus only" lane: https://tro.trafficpenaltytribunal.gov.uk/TRO/Oxfordshire/OX738.pdf. OCC have...
Yes. A lot of people in the media seem to be jumping on this bandwagon....
Just got the app to check it out. First impression is its easy to play and I have picked 3 riders for each of todays 3 ongoing stages
Have a couple of reusable cable ties (zip ties) handy. Tightly wrap around the tyre and rim to prevent the bead popping off the rim when the last...
Possibly they live in eg. Finland, where it's obviously impractical to cycle in winter and nobody would want to. Oh, wait......
You're making me all nostalgic for the India deal, the one that's going to make Brexit worthwhile. or am I mixing up my trolls?
I replied to him too, SRAM on a roadbike is a bad choice .It seems everyone who's building bikes thinks 2 cables that take 2 mins to fit is too...
Here in the UK this stuff is £42 a litre...