3 Reasons Why You Will Inevitably Ride An E-bike | The GCN Show Ep. 243

It's inevitable. You will ride an e-bike, and in this week's GCN Show we'll tell you why. And maybe why you won't.

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E-bikes aside, we've got plenty of hot news for you from right across the cycling world on The GCN Show.

Racing updates are coming in thick and fast this week, with the very latest from the Tour of Spain, la Vuelta, where Chris Froome is still sitting pretty in red. It was a Dutch dominated Boels Rental Ladies Tour in Holland, with Annemiek van Vleuten taking top step, leading from the start with an impressive TT prologue. In the current Tour of Britain we saw Caleb Ewan take the first stage, whilst the second stage sprint was a little more controversial...

On the less conventional racing front, we see multi-storey car park racing in New Zealand announced and the third round of the Red Hook Crit in Barcelona.

This week's #WattageBazooka goes to the Superman himself, Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana, and our viewer entry from India on these 23% switchbacks. Ouch!

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We've got Hack/Bodge of the Week, Extreme Corner, and an update from the Round The World hero Mark Beaumont himself. Don't forget to send him your messages of support as he enters the last quarter of his epic challenge.

Our Caption Competition winner this week is Patrick Sheard. Don't forget to send in your captions for Russ Downing, and could someone please explain it to Dan...?!

Nicole Reist impressively won the Race Around Ireland, covering 2214km in just 112 hours. Yes, that's over 19kph average...

Keep tuned on the channel this week with more shiny new tech from Eurobike to share with you, the long awaited Zwift for beginners, Contador's career ending Trek, Simon teaches us how to build a wheel and we even unbox the new Wattbike. That'll be a big box.

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