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World Champs women's road race: Kopecky uses brains and brawn to defend world title

The super-strong Dutch team tried to divide and conquer, but they were out-played by the defending champion who rode a textbook race in grim conditions.

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Hang a Loaf of Bread from Your Bike for Safety

I reached for this loaf of bread and didn’t have a great way to carry it on on my bike when when I was riding. So I tied it to the back of my bag and had it just sort of hanging there loosely. And from for the rest of the day, the cars were pretty kind to me.

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We Yearn for Driverless Cars

For me the festering issue is how our collective imaginary has been captured by a small group of techno-capitalists. We yearn for driverless cars, yet fail to imagine what a world without cars might look like. We starve our artists while we build machines to create art...

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Heat Zombies

Or the road crews, just standing there, staring at you as you drove by, no doubt contemplating the sapidity of your brains. You'd realize they had made the transition, you'd see the vacant eyes and the drool and the discolored skin. Your heart would leap into your throat and you'd want to step on the gas, but you couldn't. You were forced to a crawl as traffic squeezed through the coned-off lane.