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Michael Hutchinson is a writer, journalist and former professional cyclist. As a rider he won multiple national titles in both Britain and Ireland and competed at the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was a three-time Brompton folding-bike World Champion, and once hit 73mph riding down a hill in Wales.

As a writer, he wrote the award-winning The Hour about his attempt on the sport’s most famous and sought-after record. He followed that up with Faster, about the training, the science, the genetics and the luck behind the world’s fastest riders, and Re:Cyclists, a history of cyclists from 1816 to the present day.

He is a columnist for Cycling Weekly magazine, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, Financial Times, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. He has presented cycling TV and radio shows for the BBC and others and has appeared as a pundit and commentator for Eurosport, the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky Sports. And before he did any of that he was a legal academic at Cambridge and Sussex universities. He now lives with far too many bicycles in London and Cambridgeshire.