5 Reasons Why Bikes Are About To Take Over The World | The GCN Show Ep. 470

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This week on the GCN show: Manon is here as Dan is off practicing how to say “EF Education First Easy Post”, Tadej KOMs, the Zwift Tron bike IRL, big changes for the French auto industry, cycling infrastructure around the world, some vampiric new team kit, how far did the pros ride in 2021 and the road to the CX world champs in Fayetteville. All this plus your usual GCN show fixtures.

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00:05 - Intro
00:35 - Tadej’s Coll De Rates KoM
01:14 - MvDP’s back problems
01:43 - Zwift trainer and bike leaks
02:03 - France makes car ads promote greener options
03:14 - Paris massively expands it’s cycle network
03:40 - The Milan Cambio plans to make everything accessible by bike
04:12 - Glasgow unveils a city wide travel network
04:47 - India starts a push to get more people on bikes
05:22 - Azerbaijan builds a bikepath in Baku
05:49 - Are we about to see bikes take over the world?
06:30 - GCN Inspiration
09:11 - Sagan’s new jersey
10:00 - New Cofidis team kit
10:15 - Annual team kit Hot or Not Vote
11:02 - Speakers for your bike
11:41 - e-scooter hire schemes do more harm than good
12:17 - how much did the pros ride in 2021?
14:31 - EF Pro Cycling team gets a new sponsor
14:59 - the road season starts next week!
15:10 - CX World Championships in Fayetteville
15:35 - Hack-forward-slash-Bodge of the week
20:38 - Caption Competition
22:00 - Comment of The Week
24:59 - This week on GCN

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