Hello Tom here, before we start the show, we wanted to play you in with a little bit of

atmosphere, a little bit of slow radio, perhaps. And that atmosphere is from bespoke to the

hand-built bike show, which was my destination for this month's episode, to stick around

for that. But first of all, here I am, with Lizzie.

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Hello, I'm Tom Wally and I'm with Lizzie Banks for the next hour.

Record.

Lizzie, are we paying you 75 grand for this hour?

Unfortunately not, but that is the unspec- oh sorry, the speculated amount that it will cost

you if you want to buy Ganners' new 3D printed titanium Pinarello track bike. Now this is pure

speculation, which obviously, you know, we're just going straight in with the speculation

to stay on this. You know, Ganners last week, I'm sure you'll all know by now, absolutely

smashed the previous record on the track for the hour record, which was previously owned

by Dan Bigam, who went and got that record only in August. And Ganners was on this really

hyped up new prototype frame from Pinarello, but it was actually the same frame that Dan

Bigam rode back in August. And the interesting thing about this is that it was a prototype.

It's that legal. I didn't know the rules about prototypes, whether things had to be commercially

available.

Well, exactly, that is exactly right Tom. So there are different rules for different events.

And before Ganners and Bigam went to go and ride this hour record, there wasn't a rule

about prototype bikes being ridden. But after Ganners did his attempt, the UCI have changed

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