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MacAskill hay bale - 1.jpg11 things we've learnt this week
1. Danny MacAskill can ride on top of a rolling hay bale.
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2. Lance Armstrong still has seven Tour de France winner’s yellow jerseys on display in his home.
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3. The late comedian and actor Robin Williams owned a Schwinn Apple Picker Krate Stingray child’s bike, among dozens of others.
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4. The edges of rotors will have to be rounded off to minimise the risk of cuts when the trial of disc brakes in UCI road events recommences in January.
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5. A Saudi Arabian cycling fan rode 560km across the desert to get to the World Championships.
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6. Buy Rapha’s new Peace Race jersey and you also have the option of buying a board game based on the 1952 edition of the race.
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7. A cyclist has been chased by a pack of creepy clowns in a Ford Fiesta.
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8. Oakley Radar Pace smart glasses allow you to receive real-time performance-based data without taking your eyes off the road.
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9. There’s such as thing as a bike light that doubles as a 140 decibel alarm.
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10. A picnic bench in Usk has been painted gold to mark the fact that Sir Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull and Mark Cavendish had tea and cake there.
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11. There’s a glow-in-the-dark cycle path in Poland.
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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 over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Has anyone actually said that or are you just humourously misrepresenting those pointing out that a bicycle helmet doesn't magically prevent every...
Classic use of the meaningless "aerospace grade" on that Silca thing - "Yes, this is the metal we use for the seat armrests"
congrtulations Toby and thanks for the great story.....so many of those tips will work well at much less intensive/long rides
That endless line of vehicles - in both directions - is a typical morning in all urban environments. It's such a ridiculous waste of space, time,...
Ah yes, victory for the hard-pressed but plucky motorist, prepared to go to court if necessary. ...
You must commute in Birmingham too, I feel your pain.
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Would he still have been hit if his bike had lights, reflectors and he'd been wearing high Viz reflective clothing? We can't say. What we can say...
If they don't want other dogs running up to their dog, it's probably because it is reactive. So they don't want to be walking it on the street...
Just flag those rides if they're obviously wrong. It's easy to do and they mostly disappear if you do, assuming you're correct in your assessment.