Latest addition to ‘Can you carry it by bike?’: Mattresses (you might need a cycling mate); Vingegaard will “decide for himself” if he’s going to Tour de France, says Visma-Lease a Bike DS; Why cyclists don’t use the cycle lane + more on the live blog

Leave it to the Dutch to find the most innovative ways to transport seemingly impossible things by this wonderful thing called the bike. And just like that, we have a new addition to our series of ‘Can you carry it by bike?’.

This video shared shared by Sikkom, a Twitter account based in the Dutch city of Groningen, shows two cyclists — apparently students — finding a superb way of carrying a mattress back home by resting it over their heads and holding it from the edges.

💚Groningen en het studentenleven

Eem een matrasje vervoeren op z'n Gronings. Inclusief stukje tegen het verkeer in. Kan alleen in Stad. pic.twitter.com/zNYjD7vFUO

— Sikkom (@Sikkom050) June 3, 2024

“Groningen and student life… Transport a mattress the Groningen way,” the account wrote.

A person replied under the video saying that they saw two cyclists carry a sofa in a similar way as well, maybe there’s something to learn over here?

This adds mattress to a long list of objects that you’d consider almost impossible to carry on a bike, including a fridge, a television set, gas cannister, watermelon, wachine machine, even a Specialized MTB! Or if you’d take a page out of Simon’s book, you can hire a cargo bike and get a big old chest of drawer all the way across London.

In fact, ferrying big loads using cargo bikes — something we are big fans of here at road.cc — has already become something of a common occurrence in the capital, and has even received backing from Transport for London (TfL).

> “But tradespeople can’t carry their stuff around by bike” – oh yes they can! How cargo bikes are changing the way people work

“Cargo bikes support the Mayor’s ambition for London to reach net zero carbon by 2030 and contribute to the wider ambitions of having healthier, safer streets as set out in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy,” TfL said in its Cargo Bike Action Plan published in March last year.

Major companies including Amazon and DHL now use cargo bikes for last-mile fulfilment in the city, but independent traders are also increasingly turning to them as a means of transporting themselves and the tools of their trade around the capital, with Cargo Revolution highlighting several case studies.

So, have you carried something unusual on a bike that’s drawn a look or two from passerby? And if yes, then feel free to share with us what was the object in the comments.

Japan 1935, koloriert: #carryshitolympics

Quelle: https://t.co/mNBHLEeAGy pic.twitter.com/9mQdCb0ySG

— Jota Pluralis (@Llusafin) April 12, 2023

But you can't move a two seater sofa on a bike.... #tern #gsd #terngsd #betterbybike #leavethecarathome #bikelife #ebike #cargobike #cargobikesofinstagram #bosch #cargoline #deepcar #sheffield pic.twitter.com/myjjKXFZ3a

— Wanton and furious cycling (@Twisted_Fish90) April 14, 2023

You can’t carry a washing machine on a bicycl… Oh.

Spotted in #Oxford #quaxing #carryshitolympics pic.twitter.com/4YS5A9hWPP

— Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 (@EmilyKerr36) September 13, 2023

A British professional cyclist set to compete at the Tour of Britain Women which begins this week will not be racing after suffering injuries when she was hit by an impatient driver who tried to overtake at "high speed" on a blind bend in a narrow country lane.

Kate Richardson, who rides for Lifeplus Wahoo and won last month's Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix, shared the news on Instagram where she recalled the incident that is now being investigated by the police. According to her Strava, she had been training near Holmfirth in Yorkshire yesterday morning when she was hit by the motorist and suffered a refractured scapula, road rash and an "incredibly bruised and swollen right hip".

Read more: > British cyclist to miss Tour of Britain after being hit by driver who tried to "squeeze huge 4x4 past at high speed" on country lane blind bend before returning to "verbally abuse and threaten" female rider

Trek is set to launch a new road bike that was ridden to victory on its debut outing by Lidl-Trek’s Mads Petersen in the Dauphiné yesterday, but what is this new bike that appears to say both 'Madone' and 'Emonda' on the top tube, and what do we know about it so far? And let us know your predictions for what the bike will be eventually called!

> Trek’s new road bike: what is it and what do we know so far?

I mean, it’s only fair isn’t it? Ineos has been relying on the Dogma F line from Pinarello since 2014, back in its Sky days, and as is the case with many manufacturers, the Italian bike brand likes to keep its latest and greatest models hush and under the wraps.

However, our role as cycling journalists is to bring you any sneak peeks we can get under those wraps, and when Jamie did manage to get a cheeky look at the new Pinarello Dogma F, sat atop one of Ineos’ team cars, he was privy to a very interesting encounter with the Ineos staff, who told him and the rest of our video team to immediately stop recording — not just the new model, but also the old one!

> Ineos Grenadiers race new Pinarello Dogma at Dauphiné

Which has brought together a collection of some very pressing questions in our YouTube comments. “Ridiculous. Why would you put the secret uncovered bike on the roof rack and ALSO ride it in a filmed race!?! What a shit show,” wrote one person, while another said: “Don’t get what the fuss is about with the filming, you're in a public space so nothing wrong with that. Tell the team to tell the tv cameras not to film any Ineos rider throughout the race then.”

Indeed, as another person mentioned, I don’t think they can stop anyone from filming on a public road? Meanwhile, pointing out at the heftier, bulkier bottom bracket that can be seen in the new Dogma F, one person wrote: “Maybe there's a hidden motor in that bulging bottom bracket hence no cameras allowed…”

I guess we can rule that out as the team hasn’t been anywhere near winning many races recently…

So if you want to check out Jamie's video and the new Pinarello Dogma F in detail, well, as much we were allowed, you can watch it here.

"Why cyclists don't use cycle lanes", reason number 362 🤦 https://t.co/TFmlPKIGPn

— Shez (@Sh3zz4) June 3, 2024

When cyclists tell you someone is an arsehole, believe them. https://t.co/icSWJVp3vJ

— Harry (@Harry_is_human) June 3, 2024