Professional cyclist, Le Tour de France rider and RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride ambassador Simon Clarke tells Melissa Heagney about his lifelong passion for the two wheels. Photographs: courtesy of Orica GreenEDGE Name: Simon Clarke Age: 28 Occupation: Professional cyclist Bike: Scott Addict For serious road cyclists, the tracks,
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The week’s top bike news from around the world, brought to you every Wednesday. Local news Bike theft on the rise The past six months has seen a spate of bike thefts in inner Melbourne. Victoria Police urge riders and bike shop owners to secure their bikes with sturdy locks (see Ride On‘s top locks here) and to
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At 101 years old, the Tour de France is still an event of immense beauty and suffering. This year’s race promises to be one of the most exciting in recent memory, writes Iain Treloar. Fields filled with sunflowers and jagged peaks scraping the sky rush by, as a technicolour peloton threads a tarmac ribbon through
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The 100th Tour de France promises to be a magnificent and epic spectacle, writes Stephen Huntley. Supreme bike-riding athletes, stunning scenery, frenzied spectators, dramatic moments of terrible agony and overwhelming ecstasy, and all played out night after night for three spell-binding weeks; welcome to le Tour de France 2013. And this year’s Tour is
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