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Your chance to join legendary bike tester, rider, and proud Yorkshireman, Guy Kestevan on a one off, on bike recce of the 14km finishing loop of this year's Road Worlds, round the lumpy (not bumpy) roads of Harrogate. The start/finish goes the wrong way up/down a one way road so the only way for Guy to get the recce vid was to jump on to the course (he got the nod to do so) ahead of the Women's Tour de Yorkshire - which also used the same loop. Guy's always entertaining an enlightening company and he is in this vid too. He's also a strong rider - at the very top end of 'mere mortal', so you get a good impression of how hard that finishing lap is going to be even for the pros.

Gardai investigating.

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It’s “part of the brand’s commitment to advanced comfort” apparently.

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Loughborough Design School project led to the introduction of the Direct Vision Standard.

If you think that lorry drivers actually being able to see pedestrians and cyclists is a good thing, maybe you'd like to vote for them.

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Weighing 175g for the 100mm version, this snazzy new 7050 aluminium stem has aero in mind with hidden bolts and a smooth external shape, and an angle of 80°. Price in euros is quoted at €109.95, and it's already for sale online at Depor Village. 

This is quite the sentence. A Kiwi motorist who deliberately hit a cyclist and broke his leg has basically been grounded.

Sean Woollgar, a cyclist from Carterton just outside Wellington, was riding home from the supermarket in 2017 when Joshua Rowland started beeping his horn at him.

Woollgar said he turned and said, “Hey, what's up?” and the motorist then started tailgating him and driving alongside “really close.”

"At that point I got a bit angry, and I went up onto the pavement and swore," said Woollgar.

He tried to ride away, but Rowland followed him. Stuff reports that he eventually turned round, mounted the pavement and drove into Woollgar.

As the cyclist lay on the ground with a broken leg, Rowland walked up to him and said, "serves you right".

Woollgar’s leg was so badly broken he will likely never have full use of it again.

In court this week, Rowland's lawyer said his client’s head "was not in a good space" when the incident took place.

Rowland pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm and also admitted driving in breach of his limited licence terms, unaccompanied and without displaying an L plate.

He was sentenced to 10 months' home detention, 200 hours of community work, disqualified from driving for a year, and was ordered to pay $5000 emotional harm reparation to Woollgar. He also has to take treatment programmes and counselling as directed.

Woollgar said he never wanted Rowlands to go to prison. "He has got anger issues. He needs to deal with it and prison is not the place for that."

He did say that he would have liked him to be banned from driving for more than 12 months though. "Hopefully he will appreciate how lightly he got off," he said.