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Chris Froome wins 2015 Tour de France (Eurosport TV still)11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. Twice Tour de France winner Chris Froome hasn’t tried disc brakes on a road bike yet.
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2. Not all police officers know the law on bike lights.
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3. You can buy a golden bike in the shape of a seahorse. If you have $25,000 spare, like.
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4. A pro racer can finish a stage on a bike borrowed from a fan and not be disqualified, in exceptional circumstances.
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5. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t clear which side of the road we ride/drive on in the UK.
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6. “People with bicycles… don’t respect any rules usually,” according to Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn.
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7. A 60-year-old Italian jazz musician has been banned from competitive cycling for four years for doping.
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8. You can buy a bike helmet made from wood.
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9. Motorcycle racer and TV presenter Guy Martin is racing the Tour Divide, a 2,745 mountain bike race in North America.
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10. You can use an app that takes data from a Strava activity and transforms it into music.
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11. 250 ‘Kung Fu Nuns’ have cycled 2,200km from Kathmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi, India, stopping along the way to educate people on environmental issues and gender equality.
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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.
You mean like those who resist any attempt to reduce their 'entitlement' to use the space for motor vehicles?
I can't tell if this is a joke or a serious question? Certainly most drivers believe they pay road tax but they actually pay vehicle excise duty....
Good point but... sometime ago I bought a 3d printed light mount, in order to use a Garmin Varia Radar light on the Specialized SWAT saddle...
Froome's "crash" had nothing to do with gearing. Maybe the real issue is money and where you finish at the end of the season. Teams need...
Any chance of (voluntarily or involuntarily) taking some of these inspectors on a bike ride where they have declared it safe?
Car ploughs into Stoke-on-Trent house as firefighters cut driver free...
Anyone remember the last new cycle crossing built over the Thames in London, me neither because they've never built one. We were told we couldn't...
I wonder how pleased they were with the company's decision to stop paying the "real living wage" in April last year? Being a real ale man myself I...
How about a new wardrobe of slightly looser garments. There are already some excellent alternatives to lycra jerseys from the likes of Torm, so how...
Thank you