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road.cc podcastCan an e-bike get you fit? Plus disc brakes and Tour de France chat on episode 2 of the road.cc Podcast
It's time for episode 2 of the road.cc Podcast! It will be coming at you every fortnight from now on, and this week we're talking e-bikes, Tour tech and disc brakes.
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After a recent video and feature of ours caused a bit of a storm, we revisit the endless squabbling that seems to happen all over the internet and beyond when the subject of disc brakes is broached... are the potential for problems really so bad that they're not worth bothering with, or is the extra braking power a no-brainer? Dave Atkinson and Mat Brett offer their thoughts.
STILL think e-bikes are cheating? The road.cc team (including tech writer Anna-Marie Hughes, a serious racer who is probably faster than you) debunk that myth further as we discuss using e-bikes for serious training. Will we all be ditching our 'acoustic' bikes for e-road bikes in the future?
Finally, we give you a bit of insight into what the road.cc team gets up to during the Tour de France Grand Départ when there isn't a pandemic on. In short, it involves a lot of driving to hotels, patries and begging mechanics if we can borrow some bikes to take pictures of…
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What do you think of the road.cc Podcast so far, and what would you like us to discuss in future episodes? Comment below and/or drop us a line at podcast [at] road.cc
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
surely the police can do better that this? A woman almost died ffs...
I've taken to playing chicken on zebra crossings on the basis that drivers should be aware of me approaching the crossing, not just on it. Having...
He'll be out in nine years, or less with good behaviour. That won't bring back the two kids he killed. My condolences to their families.
Or check out the NHS in Scotland, run by the SNP
Doesn't look like it'd keep mud/water out very well, I'll stick to my saddle bag with a plastic bag inside to keep my stuff together and dry.
A smartphone set to handsfree is always fully legal, especially when held in the hand.
No. Monty Python? Not interested.
The blessings from drivers take so very many forms - over to no-so-sleepy Haverhill... ...
The motorist was clearly distracted by an invisible cyclist behaving dangerously on the pavement without hi-viz and helmet therefore had to take...
Cheers Jack, thanks for addressing it so quickly.