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Wiggo Whaam shoes.png11 things we've learnt this week
1. Wiggo’s new shoes, designed by Jimbo Phillips, were inspired by a Paul Weller guitar that was inspired by a Roy Lichtenstein artwork that was inspired by a panel from a DC Comics publication.
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2. The 2018 Giro d’Italia is going to start in Japan, according to reports.
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3. The world’s loudest bike alarm is 150 decibels and its creator also holds the record for the world’s smallest caravan.
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4. Rapha’s pricing still sets the road.cc forum abuzz.
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5. Janet Street-Porter believes cyclists “won’t be happy until all other forms of transport are eradicated.”
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6. You can buy Bontrager shoes featuring Jens Voigt’s ‘Shut up legs’ signature phrase.
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7. French law bans media advertising of any drink with an alcohol content of more than 1.2% at a sporting event.
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8. Marcel Kittel has won four stages of the Giro d’Italia in his career, but none of them in Italy.
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9. Metal bands Slayer and Rammstein have both launched their own bike designs.
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10. Woody Allen isn’t a big fan of cycling.
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11. 588 tickets were handed out for cycling crimes in Ireland last year, 444 of them in Dublin.
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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.
This risks turning me into a hanger and flogger....
This for me from cycling Santa this morning:
In SE London, psychopath riders are the majority of people on bicycles Oh dear! another festive stealth anti-cyclist ☃️
Well, you know the BMW drivers' saying: knock that house (hospital, social housing, care home, hospital...) down, could save 30 seconds on the trip!
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Could Siobhán paint it red and noone would notice it?
To paraphrase Field of Dreams, "Build it right and they will come: and use it!"
And a Happy Christmas to you, road.cc staff!
The odds of not being able to find a single pedestrian - just one, note, "any pedestrian" - in an area containing more than about ten of them who...