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11 things we've learnt this week

Our latest round-up of the weird, the wonderful, the wacky and the worrying

1. The new Shimano Dura-Ace Groupset features Synchronized Shift

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2. Andre Greipel fancies himself as a bit of a singer.

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3. Under the Licensing Act, pubs in England and Wales must provide free tap water.

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4. If Nacer Bouhanni’s in the next-door hotel room, you should probably keep the noise down.

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5. There are two sides to every story.

Car keys and drain (copyright John Stevenson)

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6. Sir Bradley Wiggins may still be riding come Tokyo 2020 – and he thinks Shane Sutton is the best coach in the world.

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7. The French government is planning on making it a criminal offence to race on a bike with a concealed motor.

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8. Half Man Half Biscuit seem to have penned more songs referencing cycling than anyone else.

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9. London cyclist casualties fell by 10 per cent last year according to the latest figures from Transport for London.

Cyclist and bus in London (copyright Simon MacMichael)

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10. In this most tumultuous of weeks, some parts of government are still actually working – the Competition & Markets Authority has cleared the merger of Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles.

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11. But bikes may become more expensive in the UK post-Brexit.

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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Leviathan | 7 years ago
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Or Three sides to every story.

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