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Team Sky Ford.jpg11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. Team Sky is swapping its fleet of Jaguars for Ford vehicles, although possibly not the Capris suggested in this Tweet (above).
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2. Jeremy Corbyn’s dream bike is a £475 Raleigh Criterium, and a crowdfunding campaign to get him one has raised enough funds many times over.
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3. A law has been proposed in Missouri to make cyclists carry a 15ft high fluorescent flag. No, really.
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4. It’s possible to draft a bendy bus at 70km/h on a hybrid bike while wearing a rucksack, and there’s video evidence to prove it.
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5. Sir Chris Hoy reckons fellow knight Bradley Wiggins is Britain’s greatest ever cyclist, whether or not he wins a medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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6. Helmet-wearing cyclists are more likely to take risks and be sensation seekers than those wearing baseball caps, according to new research.
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7. Kask, the provider of Team Sky’s helmets, is getting into the eyewear market.
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8. A Plymouth man has been banned from going within four metres of a bike rack or having a bike unless he can prove ownership. Mind you, he is a convicted bike thief.
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9. US cyclist Kurt Searvogel has ridden 76,076 miles in the past year.
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10. Pro racer Nicolas has been bitten by spiders twice in the last few months.
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11. The number of fines issued by the Metropolitan police for pavement cycling has dropped to less than two a day.
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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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