Early saddlebags were adapted from the similar things you get on horses, but moved neatly behind the saddle on the basis that a bike, unlike a horse, doesn’t have an arse to get in the way. They were often made by saddlers, out of fine leather with hand-stitched detailing, and in that respect at least saddlebags have been getting worse for over 150 years.
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German national road and track champion's Hell of the North race bike
Wahoo Powrlink Zero power meter pedals £849.99
A power meter version of the iconic lollipop pedal was something Speedplay users had been looking forward to for years and I'll give the game away right now and say they won't be disappointed
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Women's Tour heads up Black Mountain
Full stage details for the whole June race revealed
Hayter and Henderson step up
British champions claim the biggest wins of their career
Giro d'Italia 2022
Kicking off in stunning Budapest and finishing in fair Verona, the first Grand Tour of the year is set to be a beautiful race
Flying doctor takes Scottish Champs '10'
Douglas Watson also crowned men's champion
Wood leads British medal haul in Glasgow
on the Olympian's return to the track after spell road proves successful, reports Vern Pitt
Time trial entries slump sparks concern
CTT survey attempts to find the cause of low entry numbers, reports James Shrubsall
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Wild guns fall to bad jokes in BORDERLANDS 3.
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At 36 years old Gore keeps on chugging along
BMC still clueless as to how many trees will have to be cut for GMLR
As many as 115 trees will have to go to make way for construction of a flyover as part of the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project, BMC officials said.
City doc in US makes manual ventilator safer to use
A Mumbai-born doctor has bagged $1-million funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop his innovation that makes manual ventilator safer for patients. Dr Prathamesh Prabhudesai, a KEM Hospital alumnus at present based in New York, has already been contacted by the US Air Force for his “precise” ventilator.
UP: Rare bone disease forces keen twins to skip voting this time
Thirty-year-old Shruti Bhatla and Gorey Bhatla, the twins suffering from brittle bone disease, could not cast their vote here as they were left bed-ridden due to recent fractures.
After a week, rescued leopard released into the wild
The forest department has released a leopard into the jungle that they had recently rescued.
Police go through nullah muck for stolen jewellery
Mumbai: A Malad police team left no stone unturned when it came to doing their job, even if they had to risk their lives. The team entered a 30-feet deep flowing nullah on the Oshiwara-Goregaon stretch and recovered 214 grams of gold and silver ornaments worth Rs9 lakh. The recovered ornaments, reportedly 100 years old, were part of the 350gram jewellery the thief has dumped in the nullah after believing a jeweller who had informed him that it was imitation jewellery.