CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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This was new to me...
http://road.cc/content/news/115396-video-learn-history-bicycle-under-70-seconds
I never knew there were so many designs before the safety-bicycle came along...
...and is the classic racer the ultimate evolution of the bicycle today?
...Oops. I meant this to be Stuff and it seems to have landed in Infrastructure instead. I can't see how to fix that.
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"and is the classic racer the ultimate evolution of the bicycle today?"
Now that the UCI is under new management, perhaps not -
""and is the classic racer the ultimate evolution of the bicycle today?"
Now that the UCI is under new management, perhaps not -"
Well here's hoping the UCI shake up makes a real difference and they finally lose their backwards looking ways. I can't imagine how far bike tech would have come if the sports surrounding the industry had been allowed to support all the innovations that could've been...
Has anyone ever tried racing a faired recumbent against a classic upright racing bike? I'm guessing the recumbent might well be faster on the flat, but tragically heavy on a climb...
"In the short term, there are two sticking points: wheel certification and road discs"
What are 'road discs'?
Disc brakes on road bikes...
I have done a couple of articles using a power meter across recumbent and conventional road bike platforms:
36.2kCal per mile versus 47.3kCal (mixed terrain)
Speed for given power (flat)
1 minute sprint power (steep)
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