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Colin Furze HoverBike YouTube still.JPG11 things that we've learnt this week
1. The HoverBike is an actual thing. It flies but it has no steering.
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2. You can buy sexy padded underwear for cycling.
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3. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary believes, “We should take the cyclists out and shoot them." At least, that’s what he has been quoted as saying.
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4. The health benefits of cycling outweigh the negative effects of air pollution even in cities with very poor air quality, unless you’re a bike messenger.
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5. There’s an app for sorting your saddle position.
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6. Disc brakes weren’t allowed in the pro peloton, then they were, then they weren’t again, and they’re about to be permitted for the second time soon. Apparently. Are you keeping up with this?
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7. The British and Commonwealth cycle speed record is 114.19mph, the bike paced by a 1998 VW Passat.
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8. It’s possible to ride up Alpe d’Huez on a Boris Bike.
Find out more here.
9. Tour de Yorkshire winner Thomas Voeckler felt bad because he was cheered more than some British riders.
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10. Stalling a motorcycle while leading out a bike race can result in a really, really spectacular crash.
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11. You can cycle on footpaths in all but two Australian states.
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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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Hell yeah!
Fortunately this time it was only a short 'feel good' piece with a happy ending about a cyclist in a race finishing using a spectators rather nice vintage MTB but the story writer may have got a trivial detail incorrect.
But next time it could be something important like leaving the Rice Krispies off the shopping list.
Bloody journos! It's the kids I feel sorry for.
Hell yeah!
Fortunately this time it was only a short 'feel good' piece with a happy ending about a cyclist in a race finishing using a spectators rather nice vintage MTB but the story writer may have got a trivial detail incorrect.
But next time it could be something important like leaving the Rice Krispies off the shopping list.
Bloody journos! It's the kids I feel sorry for.