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Chris Froome Southampton ride (image by Team Sky)11 things we've learnt this week
1. Double Tour de France champion Chris Froome can get a 200-person bike ride together in two hours.
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2. A Boris Bike has just been returned a year and a half late.
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3. You can get a bike with a flexible down tube that’s designed to provide a smoother ride.
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4. road.cc forum users like a good sock length debate.
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5. An Australian rider is aiming to be the first to cycle across Antarctica via the South Pole.
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6. Track sprinter Jess Varnish (above, left) still hopes to make the Rio Olympics.
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7. Cannondale’s new SuperSix Evo Disc has finally been spotted in the wild.
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8. If trials ace Danny MacAskill puts in some more practice he might be as good as trials ace Danny MacAskill. (Huh? Check out the video and it'll make sense!)
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9. road.cc readers’ second favourite cycling drink is beer.
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10. The Leeds-Bradford Cycle Superhighway is just 75cm wide in places.
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11. Lotto-Soudal’s André Greipel has now won 20 Grand Tour stages.
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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.
I'll tell you one thing, he's not building a playhouse for the children......
? Last I heard, last week, he said he would make a choice between the Giro and the Vuelta once he'd seen the routes, have I missed something?
This is not just a cycling issue. As a dog owner I am regularly 'close passed' by ignorant car drivers who think its ok to mount the pavement at...
So they are very quick to remove potentially illegal caltrops (which is good), but try and tell them that some random Chinese factory is using...
I've not tried that one myself but have enjoyed others in that vein. Tart rhubarb in sweet buns - that is certainly a favourite, and on the more...
Just make that gate a modal filter (people can cycle through) and you're done....
Other cycle-delics are available of course. Available in appliable patches.
Fair point(s) - although I don't suppose they're likely choices in this scenario!
Mistakes happen in articles. Maybe people should just drop the writer a note instead of trying to win imaginary internet points.
Being easy to fit isn't the sole criterion for a good tyre. Easy to fit tyres also tend to be easy to remove tyres, which is fine if you're trying...