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Sir Dave Brailsford (BBC via iPlayer).jpg11 things we've learnt this week
1. Sir Dave Brailsford has a whole raft of elaborate hand gestures in his armoury.
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2. It’s possible for a three-year-old to ride rollers.
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3. Pinarello claims that its new Dogma F10 is 6.3% lighter than the F8, 7% stiffer and aerodynamic drag as been reduced by up to 20%.
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4. Velocite Bikes is accusing Pinarello (with its F10, mentioned above) of infringing its patented design of a down tube that’s recess to minimise the drag caused by a water bottle
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5. Peter Sagan and his wife Katarina star in their own calendar.
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6. The Specialized S-Works Tarmac was ridden to the greatest level of success in the biggest professional races last year.
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7. Watching a bunch of riders attempting to untangle a fat bike from an electric fence is surprisingly entertaining.
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8. Since the introduction of Paris’s Velib bicycle sharing scheme in July 2007 motor traffic has fallen by 30 per cent.
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9. The Isle of Man will host this year’s UK National Road Championships.
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10. It’s apparently possible to build a bicycle built primarily from recycled paper.
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11. You can get a Brompton with reflective decals and lime green anodised cranks.
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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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