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xHamster Just Bike, No BS.jpeg11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. The world’s third biggest porn site is sponsoring an Italian cycling team.
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2. Riding without a bell on your bike can cost you $117 in Queensland, Australia.
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3. Riding up Mont Ventoux in Provence, France, via the three main roads from Bédoin, Malaucène, and Sault demands 136km of cycling and 4,443m of cumulative height gain.
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4. Former UCI president Pat McQuaid thinks that allowing disc brakes in the professional peloton is “totally ridiculous”.
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5. Bruce Berkeley rode 6,514 miles in January before abandoning his attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the distance cycled in a year.
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6. There’s a plan to launch a pop-up doughnut shop that’ll be transported around Paris by a cargo trike.
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7. Mark Cavendish gets upset if he can’t complete a Rubik’s Cube in under two minutes.
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8. You can now buy a power meter for as little as $295 (£211).
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9. Running a red light in Australia’s New South Wales is set to cost A$425 (£219).
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10. In Belgium you can buy a bottle of beer with a picture of Tom Boonen on the label.
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11. Olympic champion cyclist Victoria Pendleton was unseated on her National Hunt horse racing debut.
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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.
1. In my ride-like-the-wind-tunnel, mofo 2. It's obviously safer, man 3. Ha ha ha ha ha
Reality - I expect most first year lectures have more than 80 students at them; So 80 bicycle spaces is a rounding error on potential demand....
In Norway at least, only the Govt roads authority are allowed to make car plates. Trailers also have their own reg and officially issued plates....
Not untrue - they "represent" the public, but what does that mean? The public are rather varied and may have quite different interests!...
Especially that it is a traffic light controlled junction so he must have been completely blinded not to see the red on his left hand side and a...
Send the details to UK network rail and Transport for Wales as well!
So that Pulsium from Lapierre has a 415mm wheelbase? I assume it's on 20 inch wheels then!
It's been one hell of a ride Cav, thanks for letting us share some of it. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/09/mark-cavendish-final-race-...
Much sooth counsel here....
How can a cycling ban possibly be the answer to illegal power bikes? They're already illegal to use in public spaces, so what purpose does...