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The longtime Cycling Plus staffer offers his take on all the comments and controversy on the frontline of the cycling scene

Sport may have largely gone into hibernation through the Covid-19 crisis, but nobody told certain sections of the British media, who have continued to indulge in a muchloved pastime: cyclist bashing.

“Cyclists ignore UK coronavirus lockdown rules as they ride together in the sun,” shrieked. was at it too, with the frankly lazily similar “Cyclists ignore coronavirus lockdown to go for a ride in sun.”

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