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Vuelta winner Luis Herrera reveals he has skin cancer (+ video)

Colombian who won stages and mountains jerseys at all three Grand Tours warns others to protect themselves from the sun

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Video: riding the world’s most expensive indoor trainer, the Tacx Magnum

Got £7,000 spare and plenty of space in the west wing? This might be the turbo trainer for you

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Cycling app of the week: Cycle Now

This handy app fixes you up with the nearest bike available to hire and also finds a drop-off location closest to where you're headed...

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Flexispot to launch Kickstarter for desk with built-in exercise bike

It's a part-exercise bike, part-standing desk that you can set up in a minute and even includes resistance levels for a cycling workout at work...

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Canadian cyclist charged with fraud after crowdfunding fake booby trap injuries

Stelianos Psaroudakis, 37, said he was garrotted while mountain biking

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Serious Tour drama, Britain goes hire bike-mad and more close-pass scrutiny - here are 11 things we've learned this week...

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Tour predictions, too may near misses and a glowing endorsement of the humble fiver. Here's 11 bike-themed things we've learned this week...

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Cycling App of the Week: First Aid for Cyclists by St John Ambulance

This free app from Britain's leading first aid charity gives you useful, cycle-specific medical advice

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Parents at Hackney school call for ban on cars due to air pollution fears

Petition launched urging council to make London Fields Primary part of borough's School Streets initiative

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Five cool products coming soon to road.cc

A preview of the coolest new gear we're testing right now from Bont, Shimano, Watteam, Efneo and Ashmei...

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Video: Katusha Alpecin staff dump septic tank on highway at Tour of California, get suspended

Two members of Swiss cycling team Katusha Alpecin have been suspended from the Tour of California after highway septic waste dump filmed

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Yerka ‘the unstealable bike’ now available to pre-order

The Yerka ‘unstealable bike’ is now available to pre-order, with the first bikes shipping out in September.

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Are you one of 38 million in the UK living in areas with illegal air pollution?

A new study shows that people living in Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield and many more local authorities live with NO2 levels above the legal limit

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Can pollution cut the health benefits of cycling to work?

A a study extols the cancer and heart benefits or a two wheeled commute, we explore whether heavy pollution can derail your aims

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Strava announces Club Events feature

Strava club event organisers can now organise group activities on the move, with the feature now available on the Strava mobile app.

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Cycling to work slashes risk of heart disease and cancer, major study finds

Five-year study looked at travel habits and health of more than 250,000 people across the UK

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20 million Brits physically inactive claims British Heart Foundation survey

Separate study finds that half of people who own a bike never ride it

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Researcher recommends cycling to work to try and match Amazon tribe’s unparalleled heart health

Tsimané people do around six hours’ exercise every day

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Ban cars on roads near schools says mayor of London

Sadiq Khan criticises the government for ignoring "unarguable evidence" and says we should be protecting our children from air pollution

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Six weeks to fitness – Week 4

It's another week of threshold work and the intensity goes up another notch

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GPs welcome plans to let them prescribe cycle lessons

But will waiting rooms be clogged up by those wanting to try?

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Sport England survey finds twice as many people cycle for leisure than for travel

200,000 adults aged 16 and over took part in huge survey

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Mini-Holland GPs to prescribe cycling to those who need to be more active

Cycling could reduce obesity and diabetes in the borough

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Study casts doubt on heat-dissipating benefits of compression garments

Recommends older cyclists in particular steer clear of such clothing in hot weather

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Madrid mayor plans to ban private cars from city’s main shopping street

Spanish capital follows cities including Barcelona and Paris in restricting vehicles to tackle air pollution

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Paris mayor: 2017 will be the year of the bicycle

Mayor Anne Hidalgo will bring forward measures to double cycle provision and halve motor traffic by 2020 to tackle the city's dangerous air pollution

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London road breaks annual pollution limits in just 5 days

Brixton Road a 'shameful' sign of how bad pollution in the capital has become

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Scarf that includes anti-air pollution mask and monitoring app comes to market

French start-up Wair will showcase product at CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week

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Exercising in polluted environments can lead to heart failure, study finds

Study suggests inhaling diesel fumes while exercising damages lungs and can potentially lead to heart failure

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Separating bikes from traffic can halve pollution exposure, study finds

Cycle routes away from motor traffic can halve pollution exposure, while parking protected cycle tracks can cut cyclists' pollution exposure by 20-30 per cent, according to recent study

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