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11 things we've learnt this week

Interesting, surprising and/or strange facts from the past seven days on road.cc
by Mat Brett
Sat, May 28, 2016 07:56
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1. World Champion Peter Sagan could be in line for an annual salary of €4 million.
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2. Around 1,200 cyclists per hour use London’s brand new East-West Cycle Superhighway in the morning and evening peaks.
Find out more here. 

3. Mobile phones play a part in 20 per cent of bike accidents involving under-25s in the Netherlands.
Find out more here. 

 

4. The Taga 2.0 cargo trike, designed to carry children, attracted more than $1 million of crowdfunding within 24 hours of the project going live on Kickstarter.
Find out more here. 

 

GIGN personnel during a training exercise (source - Gendarmerie Nationale, Ministere de l'Interieure).jpg5. 23,000 police and paramilitary personnel will be present at this year’s Tour de France.
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Mario Cipollini6. Retired pro racer Mario Cipollini has been fined €165 for riding through a red traffic signal.
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7. You can get a bike that runs on solar power alone.
Find out more here. 

8. Heathrow Airport has a Cycling Officer.
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9. Things can be pretty dramatic when a carbon fibre wheel fails.
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Lance Armstrong Photo by Maryse Alberti, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics10. Lance Armstrong can still provoke strong debate on the road.cc forum.
Find out more here. 

 

11. A top level speed skater on rollerblades an keep pace with a group of cyclists. 
Find out more here. 

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Mat Brett

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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madcarew | 8 years ago
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We have a top level speed skater in our cycling lub in NZ. Their race speeds around a circuit similar to the one we hold our club crits on are on par with our race times (25mph+ av). 

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