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  • |Record Time || 5 hours and 12 minutes<br>by [[Dean Woods]] in 1990 ...''' [[cycling]] [[race]] is the longest one day [[Road bicycle racing|road bicycle race]] on the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] (UCI) calendar, being 299.1
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  • ...e Tour de Suisse offers mountain climbs and at least one [[individual time trial]], stages that often determine the winner of the [[Tour de France]]. Severa
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  • ...er velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using [[track bicycle]]s. ...ool as well a lighter, easier to fix alternative to the traditional geared bicycle.
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  • ...ation for quality in design and production similar to Italy's other famous bicycle marques. ...e company over to a young entrepreneur in the steel tube industry with the bicycle at heart: Antonio Colombo.
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  • ...etitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of [[time]]. Typically this involves [[traversing]] some [[distance]], but it can be ...shorter section of a much longer course or a [[Individual time trial|time trial]].
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  • The '''Eneco Tour of Benelux''' is a [[UCI ProTour]] [[road bicycle racing]] stage-race. Its name refers to its main sponsor, the energy compan The overall winner of the race by time wears a ''white jersey'' (Dutch: ''Witte trui'' or French: ''Maillot blanc'
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  • ...born [[26 November]] [[1977]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] professional [[road bicycle racer]], most recently with [[Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team]]. Basso, ...dy]]. There he grew up next door to [[Claudio Chiappucci]], a former three-time stage winner in the [[Tour de France]] who later retired after being proven
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  • ...gh end bicycles. The company makes bicycles for road racing, track racing, bicycle messengers, and [[cyclo-cross]]. ...lve brothers, was born in [[Catena di Villorba]] in 1922. He was born at a time when life could be rather difficult, which was not uncommon, for many famil
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  • [[Image:Henninger Turm-2005-Finale-Runde2-Spitzengruppe.jpg|thumb|250px|Bicycle racers at the 2005 [[Rund um den Henninger-Turm]] in Germany]] ...he end of the course ([[individual time trial|individual]] and [[team time trial]]s are another form of cycle racing on roads). It is one of the most physi
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  • ...Contini]]. He withstood the final test – the final stage’s individual time trial to win the race in Verona ahead of [[Tommy Prim]]. Battaglin was only the s Battaglin retired after the 1984 season. In 1982 [[Battaglin]] started a bicycle manufacturing business, [[Battaglin]], which he runs from [[Marostica]], [[
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  • FROM BICYCLE FRAMES ...ubing, made of Nivacrom steel, was an unprecedented success. For the first time in the history of cycling, the concept of “Differential Shape Butting”
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  • This is a '''list of important men's [[road bicycle racing]] events'''. Note that this list only includes road races, and no [[ *[[Eindhoven Team Time Trial]], {{flagiconNED}} (2007)
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  • ...ned part of an occupied free territory while triestine cycling great and 3-time Giro winner, Giordano Cottur, was battling against fellow cycling greats Fa ...mic miracle,” people gave up bicycles in favor of scooters and motorbikes. Bicycle companies suffered the consequences of motorized progress, and in 1952 Wili
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  • The '''Vuelta a España''' (Tour of Spain) is a three-week [[road bicycle racing]] [[stage race]] that is one of the three "[[Grand Tour (cycling)|Gr ...]] the race has been run in September. The course includes two individual time trials. The finish of the Vuelta is traditionally the Spanish capital, [[M
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  • ...cle''''', '''Le Tour''' or '''The Tour''', is an epic long distance [[road bicycle racing]] competition for professionals held over three weeks in July in and ...corded and accumulated. The ranking of the riders according to accumulated time is known as the [[General Classification]], or GC. The overall winner is th
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  • ...and contemporary scholarship is showing that all buildings, cathedrals and bicycle sheds alike, are part of a single continuum that characterizes the built wo ...features such as decorative lighting, benches, meandering walkways, and [[bicycle lane]]s may enhance a site for passersby, pedestrians, and cyclists.
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  • [[Image:Kusuma bike large.jpg|thumb|300px|This ''[[racing bicycle]]'' is built using lightweight, shaped [[aluminium]] tubing and [[Graphite- [[Image:Mountain bicycle.jpg|thumb|300px|This ''[[Mountain bike|mountain bicycle]]'' features oversized tires, a sturdy frame, front shock absorbers, and ha
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  • ...cquainted with motor racing as Arturo and his brother Giuseppe were both [[bicycle]] racers - Giuseppe was a multiple winner of the Italian national champion ...ng this period, Nuvolari also dabbled in car racing, winning a reliability trial in 1921.
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  • ...duce a line of heavy bombers which were considered very advanced for their time. Even US Army Air Corps used them to form its first heavy bomber squadron i ...[Italian]] jet aircraft, the 1940 Caproni Campini CC2, that flew the first time during a 1941 flight to [[Milano]] [[Guidonia]]. The end of Second World Wa
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  • ...him at ''Casino Royale'' in [[Montenegro]]. This will mark only the second time the same actor has appeared as Leiter twice since [[David Hedison]] played ...oft-times not. Personally, I know a lot of people who say, 'I'm riding my bicycle.' But then they have their private jet at the airport. 'I have my Gulfstrea
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