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Chris Froome wins 2015 Tour de France (Eurosport TV still)11 things we’ve learnt this week
1. Twice Tour de France winner Chris Froome hasn’t tried disc brakes on a road bike yet.
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2. Not all police officers know the law on bike lights.
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3. You can buy a golden bike in the shape of a seahorse. If you have $25,000 spare, like.
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4. A pro racer can finish a stage on a bike borrowed from a fan and not be disqualified, in exceptional circumstances.
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5. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t clear which side of the road we ride/drive on in the UK.
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6. “People with bicycles… don’t respect any rules usually,” according to Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn.
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7. A 60-year-old Italian jazz musician has been banned from competitive cycling for four years for doping.
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8. You can buy a bike helmet made from wood.
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9. Motorcycle racer and TV presenter Guy Martin is racing the Tour Divide, a 2,745 mountain bike race in North America.
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10. You can use an app that takes data from a Strava activity and transforms it into music.
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11. 250 ‘Kung Fu Nuns’ have cycled 2,200km from Kathmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi, India, stopping along the way to educate people on environmental issues and gender equality.
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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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