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Chris Froome Ventoux.PNG11 things we've learnt this week
1. Chris Froome can run in cycling shoes.
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2. It’s possible to propose via Strava.
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3. Dan Martin’s bike has a panda painted on the frame, a reference to an incident when a guy dressed as a panda chased him up the final hill in Liege-Bastogne-Liege a couple of years ago.
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4. The new Pinarello Dogma F8 Xlight has a rider weight limit of 69.8kg.
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5. You can use a bike to fend off a rabid groundhog.
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6. The new Garmin Edge 820 weighs 67.7g
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7. Pro rider Romain Bardet apparently likes his handlebars set at a very odd angle.
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8. The Eddy Merckx Sallanches64 gets its name from the fact that Eddy Merckx, the rider, became the amateur world champion in Sallanches, France, in 1964.
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9. Trek-Segafredo riders decorated Jasper Stuyvens’ shoes with King of the Mountains polka dots using marker pens.
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10. It wasn’t a punch, it was a “hand off”, according to Chris Froome.
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11. Shimano has its sights set on the urban bike clothing market.
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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. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. 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.
Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
Quite so, which is why our village 20mph zone covers the whole residential extent. Of course, enforcement is another thing..
£4.
No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
In that £1000 exactly scenario, beginners should probably be made aware that pedals will be extra.
What's wrong with dropping down on to the Millenium Bridge, or the swing bridge, then the brief, but satisfying climb back up the hill? #training....
The relatives might of course disagree, but in general I'd countenance a relatively light sentence* if only we could fix it so that those who...
Id forgotten that I got a second hand set of project two's for my getting to work bike over twenty years back.
My bet is that all these tires popping off are from people with bad pressure gauges or they're simply just putting too much air in on purpose. ...
David9694 - you were right! These new autonomous vehicles really are conspiring to run out of control!...