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Chris Froome Southampton ride (image by Team Sky)11 things we've learnt this week
1. Double Tour de France champion Chris Froome can get a 200-person bike ride together in two hours.
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2. A Boris Bike has just been returned a year and a half late.
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3. You can get a bike with a flexible down tube that’s designed to provide a smoother ride.
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4. road.cc forum users like a good sock length debate.
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5. An Australian rider is aiming to be the first to cycle across Antarctica via the South Pole.
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6. Track sprinter Jess Varnish (above, left) still hopes to make the Rio Olympics.
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7. Cannondale’s new SuperSix Evo Disc has finally been spotted in the wild.
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8. If trials ace Danny MacAskill puts in some more practice he might be as good as trials ace Danny MacAskill. (Huh? Check out the video and it'll make sense!)
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9. road.cc readers’ second favourite cycling drink is beer.
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10. The Leeds-Bradford Cycle Superhighway is just 75cm wide in places.
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11. Lotto-Soudal’s André Greipel has now won 20 Grand Tour stages.
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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.
"the cost to rebuild the M25 junction 10/A3 Wisley interchange is £317 million. The project is expected to be completed in 2025. "
I think they did, from memory back in the 70s/80s... haven't seen one for years though, our current milkman uses a standard van, albeit hybrid.
3) gaining experience using the roads at minimal risk to third parties. It's an excellent opportunity to practice hazard perception in a real world...
I believe that straight forks that are used on carbon frames are more dangerous than the old steel forks because they are more rigid, the old steel...
That was my thought exactly, surely a business opportunity for someone to set up fitting centres in major city centre bike shops and just sell the...
Yes, sleep apnea produces more CO... I'm not aware of any doping effect but what do I know....
That's true enough. But doesn't address my point that the chainset you get as a replacement will not physically fit chainrings from the chain set...
In all fairness, it almost certainly NEVER happened…
1) I'd love to see anyone tell an EV driver that they shouldn't be on the road or move out of the way because they pay less VED....
Many of my fellow Tories sincerely hate bike schemes, and our friends sincerely hate these schemes, and road changes create enormous noise on...