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f the news from September is to be believed, then the woolly mammoth has a brighter and more prosperous future than the bicycle rim brake. As improbable efforts by an American bioscience firm continue to resurrect the long-extinct beast, which last roamed the Earth some 4000 years ago, the last remaining disc-brake holdout in the men’s WorldTour, Ineos Grenadiers, finally succumbed to the inevitable and put disc brakes

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