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11 things we've learnt this weekChris Froome Southampton ride (image by Team Sky)

11 things we've learnt this week

Interesting nuggets from the past seven days on road.cc
by Mat Brett
Sat, May 21, 2016 07:56
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1. Double Tour de France champion Chris Froome can get a 200-person bike ride together in two hours.
Find out more here. 

 

Barclays Bike turns up 18 months late (image courtesy of @BradTubbs)

2. A Boris Bike has just been returned a year and a half late.
Find out more here. 

 

alter cycles 2.jpg3. You can get a bike with a flexible down tube that’s designed to provide a smoother ride. 
Find out more here. 

 

4. road.cc forum users like a good sock length debate.
Find out more here. 

 

Still from Breaking the Cycle Greenland by Claudio von Planta

5. An Australian rider is aiming to be the first to cycle across Antarctica via the South Pole.
Find out more here. 

 

Jess Varnish and Becky James, Cali 2014 (copyright Britishcycling.org.uk)

6. Track sprinter Jess Varnish (above, left) still hopes to make the Rio Olympics.
Find out more here. 

 

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7. Cannondale’s new SuperSix Evo Disc has finally been spotted in the wild. 
Find out more here. 

 

Danny MacAskill Buchanan Street (source Facebook).JPG

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!)
Find out more here. 

 

Beers (CC CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Pingus|Flickr).jpg9. road.cc readers’ second favourite cycling drink is beer.
Find out more here. 

 

Leeds Bradford CC bus stop Credit Ken Spence

10. The Leeds-Bradford Cycle Superhighway is just 75cm wide in places.
Find out more here. 

 

11. Lotto-Soudal’s André Greipel has now won 20 Grand Tour stages.
Find out more here. 

Chris Froome
Boris Bike
Jess Varnish
André Greipel
Lotto Soudal
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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