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Cyclist with millstone on head video still.JPG11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. It’s possible to ride a bike with a 34kg millstone balanced on your head.
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2. A bicycle can be used as a musical instrument.
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3. Lots of people think Tinkoff-Saxo’s new La Datcha training kit is pretty cool, actually.
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4. If you’re very lucky, you can get hit by a 140km/h train and escape with bruises, and we have the video evidence.
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5. Disc brakes on road bikes really, really divide opinion. Check out the comments!
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6. Giant-Alpecin’s Marcel Kittel has hair stylists in the wind tunnel.
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7. The Dutch have a National Headwind Cycling Championships. It’s what it sounds like!
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8. A Brazilian cyclist who rode in the slipstream of a lorry at 124km/h is now aiming for 200km/h.
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9. Lance Armstrong believes everyone would dope if they thought they could get away with it.
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10. Cyclists in Denmark can have a tag that turns a red light green… but only at one intersection.
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11. Most cyclists back compulsory cycle training, according to a survey.
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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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- chrisonabike 10 sec ago
Yeah ... but remember: e.g. not speeding is (presumably still) taught to learners, then having passed the test a very high percentage leave that...
- quiff 10 min 44 sec ago
I take the point, but road.cc periodically surveys its readership on income, bike spend etc. I suspect the answers indicate there is an audience...
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£12 million for 6km, crikey.
- Miller 1 hour 3 min ago
Got to love Pogacar, always diplomatic and sensible. Not in his racing style though.
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That's true enough. But doesn't address my point that the chainset you get as a replacement will not physically fit chainrings from the chain set...
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No.9 is redundant.
Nobody cares what he thinks.
I've lost track- does "dope" mean good or bad at the moment? (Likewise, "sick", and, indeed, "bad"?)
That Tinkoff Datcha kit is dope.