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The world's fastest human-powered vehicle just topped 85 mph
It might look like a kayak on its side, but that vehicle above has just broken the human-powered land speed record. The pilot, Todd Reichert, managed 85.71mph in his "Eta" speedbike on Thursday morning, comfortably besting the previous record of 83.13. Reichert is the pilot for team AeroVelo, and is competing in the World Human Powered Speed Challenge, taking place in Battle Mountain, NV this week. The WHPSC is basically where cyclists...
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Inside the Most Dangerous Bike Comp on Earth
Every fall, the world’s best mountain bikers assemble at Red Bull Rampage to hurl themselves down cliffs in search of fame and fortune—if they make it down in one piece.
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Artistic cycling
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Why would I have my morning coffee at home when I can have it here with my two new best friends?
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Tarmac trials cyclist-friendly concrete mixer
Building materials supplier Tarmac is trialling a new type of concrete mixer that is designed to give the driver a better view of cyclists.
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How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world
Motorists woke up one mid-70s morning to find new one-way streets made direct crosstown journeys impossible by car. Forty years later Groningen boasts two-thirds of all trips made by bike … and the cleanest air of any big Dutch city.
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Why runners should think about giving triathlon a go
If you're constantly getting injured – or you just need to shake things up a bit – adding in cycling and swimming might just be the answer. Here's what one runner learned from the transition
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Lets try a mountain bike race on an icy glacier!
Megavalanche Glacier Carnage - Polygon UR
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Groningen: The World's Cycling City [2013]
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Here's a few good racing tips from GCN
Here are a few good videos with tips on racing.
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VeloViewer
Fantastic interactive lists, maps, charts, graphs and 3d profiles for your full STRAVA history including all the segments you\'ve ever covered with up-to-date placings.
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Cyclists Can Ignore Some Traffic Lights, Paris Announces
The city says that tests have shown "the passage of cyclists through red lights isn't accident-prone and avoids certain conflicts between cyclists and vehicles."
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Join the official /t/velo Strava Club!
Join the official Strava Club! Big thanks to tribe member jrmy for setting it up.
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Brumotti - Road Bike Freestyle 2
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How Copenhagen Became A Cycling Paradise By Considering The Full Cost Of Cars
Copenhagen is known as a cyclist paradise, a place where the bike is treated equally, if not preferentially, to the car. There are long-running cultural reasons for this—the Danes are into bikes, period—but also more structural factors as well. One of those is how the city justifies its cycling investments relative to other modes of transport.
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The Quest to Push a Human-Powered Bike to 90 MPH
If Todd Reichert cannot regain control of his ultrafast bike, he will be cast at 75 mph into the unforgiving rock and scrub that lies beside the highway in the Nevada desert. Reichert is familiar with extreme situations: the 32-year-old aerospace engineer and athlete was co-designer and pilot of the first human-powered ornithopter—a craft that flies by flapping its wings—to soar continuously, and the first ever human-powered helicopter to become airborne.
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The Case for Ditching Your Helmet
Is the helmet really just a head casket keeping us from addressing the bigger issue of cycling safety in our cities?
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Bicycle traffic deaths soar; California leads nation
If you are going to be killed by a car while riding a bicycle, there’s a good chance you are male, older than 20 and living in California or Florida.
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Copenhagen's piles of bicycles
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Bicycling magazine provides a special online version of Senseless, an in-depth look at the state of bicycling helmet technology
Bicycle helmets do an outstanding job of keeping our skulls intact in a major crash. But they do almost nothing to prevent concussions and other significant brain injuries—and the very government agency created to protect us is part of the problem. The time has come to demand something safer.
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