{"id":161439,"date":"2017-10-02T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=161439"},"modified":"2017-10-10T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T07:28:33","slug":"icelandic-way-slow-motorists-cool-news-world-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/10\/02\/icelandic-way-slow-motorists-cool-news-world-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Icelandic Way to Slow Down Motorists and Other Cool News from the World of Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Monday is here and our news from the world of cycling with it! So, what did you miss?<\/strong>
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3D zebra crossings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Icelandic company Vegam\u00e1lun came up with ingenious pedestrian crossings in early September this year. And it took only a few weeks for the first ones to be painted in the streets of \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. What a testament to the flexibility of the city council over there! The low-budget attempt to make drivers slow down has been making headlines all over the world.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZmNTOrAgvm\/?taken-by=wlcmagazine<\/p>\n

We\u2019d definitely slow down faster than usual. Would you want to have something similar in your home town?<\/p>\n

Derailleur\u2019s racing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZkAy90j4iy\/<\/p>\n

Chris Froome\u2019s crazy training<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What does it take to become a four-time Tour de France winner? The short answer is ‘a lot’. Just look at the training methods, for example. In an article in Shortlist magazine, Chris Froome revealed that he\u2019s tried some pretty hardcore ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI once convinced myself that just training once a day was stupid. So for a week all I did was train, eat, sleep, train, eat, sleep, and ignored things like the changing of the day, down-time and so on. I\u2019d get back at 2pm, eat, sleep, then wake up at 8pm and go out for another six-hour ride, then repeat the cycle. I was riding all through the night and sleeping during daylight, like a vampire who ignored the world around him. I only lasted four or five days, then I crashed and burned. It wasn\u2019t healthy,\u201d Froome wrote.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZF9mDNFMYL\/?taken-by=chrisfroome<\/p>\n

The nocturnal training sessions were not the way to go, but Froome doesn\u2019t regret trying them out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the mistakes I made were part of the process I had to go through to get to this point,\u201d he added and explained that he does not only race against his rivals now, he\u2019s fighting for a place in the history books as well.<\/p>\n

Rocking it as a skater<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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I wasn't so bad as a skater \ud83d\ude02 #DO<\/a> #DanielOss<\/a> #littleme<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/fzEG1riCT5<\/a><\/p>\n

— Daniel Oss (@Daniel87Oss) September 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n