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11 things we've learnt this week
1. Lance Armstrong loves a McDonald's breakfast
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2. A deer can take out a mountain biker quite easily.
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3. As can a bear, not surprisingly.
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4. And a 75-year-old Danish woman can take down a moped riding thief.
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5. A well known sketch of a bicycle alleged to have been drawn by a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci was actually forged some time between 1967 and 1974.
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6. You can get a bike helmet with brake lights.
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7. Lael Wilcox has become the first woman to win the nearly 5,000 mile Trans Am Bike Race.
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8. EPO appeared to have no effect on well-trained cyclists in a race on Mont Ventoux, according to researchers from the Netherlands.
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9. Sir Chris Hoy finished 17th at the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race.
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10. You can’t cycle on Bournemouth seafront between 10am and 6pm during July and August.
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11. You can buy pedals that “sway”, the idea being to improve leg alignment and pedalling efficiency.
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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. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. 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 pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
I don't fully understand what happened....
"Rules are for other people, I use my instincts and common sense." It's the Dominic Cummings approach to life.
If you're pushing 25mph aero should be your major consideration so - https://www.swissside.com/collections/hadron-classic-front-wheels/produc......
Can anyone explain to me why cyclists are more culpable than the gangs of youths who are piling into one car and racing around the countryside?
Some people like them for keeping the pad in place whilst not restricting by needing a wasteband. Choice eh?
grr, Ajax!
It's well known that 'irony' is so often a cover for saying something offensive, or something which you really do think, then saying 'oh I was...
The policy makers work 9-5 surely everyone else works the same times ?
I have also complained to the Sunday Times, as I assume hundreds have. This is what I said....
+1 for VoltX. especially the bifocals.