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Shanaze Reade rides Wall of Death (Channel 4 video still).JPG11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. The fastest speed ever recorded on a bicycle ridden around a Wall of Death is 26.8mph by Shanaze Reade.
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2. Middle-aged cycle commuters are typically 4-5kg lighter than those who drive to work.
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3. Here Come the Warm Casquettes is a track on the ambient album Taking Tourmalet Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Hinault. Maybe.
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4. You can use cow udder treatment as a substitute for chamois cream, according to one road.cc forumite.
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5. The total prize fund for the female racers in the Prudential RideLondon Classique is €100,000 (around £80,000), the same as that for the men in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic.
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6. Team Sky has been testing a prototype Pinarello K8 at the Spring Classics.
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7. A pro cyclist took a wrong turn on his WorldTour debut in Belgium and finished the race 15 hours later after taking a shower in the house of a member of the public.
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8. A drunk student who stole a bike has reunited it with its owner through a Gumtree advert and became firm friends with her.
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9. A pedal-powered coffee shop franchise has smashed its fundraising target on Indiegogo.
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10. SRAM has gone 12-speed, but only in mountain biking… for now!
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11. Freeing a cow with its head stuck in the fork of a tree is all in a day’s work for some cyclists.
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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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