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Vittorio Brumotti and Peter Sagan Sportful YouTube still.JPG11 things we’ve learnt this week
It’s possible to have a two-piece bicycle with entirely separate front and rear sections.
Read more here.
The record for cycling from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa, is 38 days.`
Read more here.
Knicker elastic and a walking stick can be vital pieces of equipment in a motor-paced cycle land speed record.
Read more here.
Copenhagen will have a bridge for cyclists and walkers more than 200ft above ground level.
Read more here.
There’s such a thing as a protein-rich doughnut, called a pronut.
Read more here.
There’s a world championships for indoor cycling – the cycling version of synchronised swimming.
See the video here.
The longest retro cycling event in the world will take place in the Lake District next year.
Read more here.
You can play football on a bike.
Read more here.
Strava can record the evidence of you riding into a canal.
Read more here.
You can ride on Zwift in a virtual road.cc jersey.
Read more here.
The world could save up up $25 trillion in infrastructure costs by 2050 by going two-wheeled.
Read more here.
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.
I've posted before about being 69, lifelong cyclist as my main transport, much of it in, through, under, over London and how it's bicycles that...
I hope you're all checking your insurance policies, helmets, test certificates and road tax, it's the 2024 round-up...
200 people out of a close by population of how many? Just build it and stop being a wuss
To paraphrase Field of Dreams, "Build it right and they will come: and use it!"
And a Happy Christmas to you, road.cc staff!
The odds of not being able to find a single pedestrian - just one, note, "any pedestrian" - in an area containing more than about ten of them who...
I love how wannabe racer reviewers talk about fork flex under braking like their tyres are made of glue. I find traction gives long before fork flex.
They don't make them like they used to
Thanks for using my picture of chocolate in your opening picture. The original can be found here, chocolate! | LongitudeLatitude | Flickr.
Fair comments. I'll put my hands up and say I got the wrong end of the stick with this one. ¡Feliz navidad! Here's a pic for the season of goodwill.