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11 things we've learnt this week
1. World champion Peter Sagan does an impressive hair throw!
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2. Using your bike on a turbo trainer could void the warranty, depending on the brand.
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3. Sir Bradley Wiggins once turned down the chance of a walk-on part in EastEnders.
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4. You can mount a Bluetooth button on your handlebar that will ring a ‘bell’ via an app on your smartphone. If you want, like.
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5. Spanish sports daily AS has asked whether world cyclo-cross champion Wout Van Aert is using an illegal hidden motor in his bike thanks to this clip (the incident is at 1:44mins).
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6. You can get a mini-pump that lives inside your seatpost.
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7. This cycle path, complete with speed bumps, exists in Paris.
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8. Manchester jobseekers are being offered free recycled cycles to help them get back into work.
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9. Fabian Cancellara’s former teammate Roberto Petito gave him the nickname Spartacus because he thought he looked like a gladiator.
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10. You can get a bicycle helmet that has a set of indicators on the rear that are controlled by wireless controls on the handlebars.
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11. Peter Sagan and Chris Boardman have jointly won the Cycling Champion 2016/17 vote in the road.cc Reader Awards.
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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. 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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Really? Jerkish comment - we don't have to drag the teumpiean clusterfuck into everything you know.
Imagine if cars could only be parked where there was someone who was willing to stand there and keep an eye on them…
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I would assume there's some kind of transmission in this bit. Don't know about a 'clunk' though - if it's capable of mimicking all kinds of gear...
Weird. I went there a few weeks ago and all I saw was a cycle lane and plenty of free parking provision next to it, no keeerrraazy wiggly lines....
I suspect a different poster - our consistently unlucky (yet somehow surviving) wheelchair user never had anything good to say about cyclists!
That's a very good point, I remember once speaking to somebody who had volunteered in Gaza as a medic who said that the vast majority of the...
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