Miscellaneous

Enter your club in Decathlon’s Cycling Club of the Year contest

£500 in gear up for grabs for best club

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We're looking for a talented web developer to join our team. Are you one?

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Serie A side Cesena go pink for Marco Pantani this weekend

Il Pirata's local club to wear away kit in home match to mark late cyclist's 45th birthday

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Tributes paid to Olympic TT rider Gary Dighton, who has died at age of 46

Dorset-based cyclist who rode for GB at Barcelona Games in 1992 is believed to have taken his own life

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Video round-up: A parrot, a dog, and a Jaguar

Wildlife-themed video round-up sees a bunch of animals riding, or escorting cyclists + a frightened Boris biker

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Simon Richardson aims to get back on bike – but needs another operation

Former Paralympic champion continues his slow recovery from 2011 crash caused by drunk driver

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U2 frontman Bono may never play guitar again due to New York City bike smash

U2 frontman also lays to rest urban myth he rode bike disguised as Hasidic Jew

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Cycling New Year’s Resolutions 2015 – here’s ours, what’s yours?

What could you do in 2015 to make your cycling life even better? The road.cc team have their say, now it's your turn

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Student leaves university on bike and 11,000km later safely arrives home

Badrul Hisham Burhanuddin raises money for orphanages and the Palestinians in Gaza

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Video: How to make an offset unicycle

Tinkerer takes angle grinder to old bike to give it new purpose

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Laura Trott announces engagement to Jason Kenny

Christmas engagement for British Cycling's golden couple

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Jens Voigt appointed Trek’s ‘Ambassador of Awesome’

Recently-retired German also takes up role as 'interim VP of corporate geocaching' at US bike brand

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2014 News Review – the year’s biggest, and some of its quirkiest cycling stories

Conspiracy theories, helmet debate, a lucky escape and Grand Tour selfies feature in our round-up

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Cyclists are… How others see us (according to Google)

User searches show less-than-flattering terms for cyclists, mixed news for runners and triathletes - though there's a positive result for Lance Armstrong

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Big jump in sales and profits at Brompton

Production ramped up to meet soaring demand, particularly in overseas markets

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London urban cycle clothing brand looking for backers via Kickstarter

Twentyeightco looking to create clothing and accessories for the fashion-conscious urban cyclist

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England cricketer co-founds ONE Pro Cycling team

Cycling team is only the latest example of wicketkeeper Matt Prior’s love of cycling

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A fifth of drivers get behind the wheel the morning after, survey finds

Ineffective 'cures' include water, running, aspirin—and Irn Bru

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Amazon trials bike messengers for super-quick deliveries

Mail order mega-corp experiments with dispatching parcels the old-fashioned way

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As seen on TV: Ned Boulting’s Boardman bike up for auction

"Uniquely abused" bike being sold to raise money for SE London primary school

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MP credits her “strong, solid bike” with protecting her in van collision

Anne Milton followed SMIDSY incident with "large bottomed man" Twitter kerfuffle

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It’s official – MAMILs get Oxford Dictionaries seal of approval as list of new words published

Acronym for 'Middle-aged men in Lycra' joins lolcat, Obamacare and tomoz in list of new inclusions

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Travel writer completes 43,000 mile trip on a second-hand bike

Charlie Walker travels through 61 countries, camping along the way

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Canadian cyclists win Dragons’ Den backing for mobile repair business (+ video)

Velofix founders growing business through franchising - and say no reason it couldn't come to the UK

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Tributes paid to aerodynamics pioneer Steve Hed, dead at 59

Top cyclists and triathletes hail carbon wheel wizard

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103-year-old Robert Marchand celebrates birthday by climbing the col that bears his name

Col Robert Marchand is 10km long and rises 450m - wonder if it's on Strava?

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Tell us what you think of road.cc and you could win a £1,000 bike

… you can choose from Trek, Cube, Giant, Specialized, GT, Wilier, Focus, Felt or Bianchi courtesy of JE James

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Drivers don’t know cycling road rules, quiz results show

Law firm's quiz reveals cyclists know road rules better than drivers

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“Quintessential” cyclist is middle-aged male Guardian reader – who’s also a Top Gear fan

Profiles app from market research firm YouGov highlights specific characteristics of bike riders

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Wiggle claims it has become the UK’s largest online cycle retailer

Reports 19 per cent rise in sales compared to previous year

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