Talk:Cycling in the Channel Tunnel

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Mountain Biking UK

Damon Brown and Nick [unknown] of Mountain Biking UK magazine appear to have cycled part way into the service tunnel in c.1994/1995.

"Ben Nevis ridable?" (comment). Bike Magic. 9 May 2001. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Who do you think we are?MBUK absailing into quaries with bikes on our backs, and riding through the channel tunnel.
"Singletrack latest issue WTF". 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Lets not forget MBUK of oldish days … It also did features on riding through the Channel Tunnel before it opened to trains
"road.cc – Timeline photos". 7 July 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. An MBUK journalist rode through the tunnel … Damon Brown That was me and my friend Nick but we didn't ride all the way through. Well remembered!
"Video: Chris Froome v the Channel Tunnel". 7 July 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Didn't MBUK ride through the Channel Tunnel shortly after it opened? Or possibly during construction? There was definitely a feature along those lines.

—Sladen (talk) 06:46, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Having tracked down Damon Brown, the other rider was Nick Dutton-Taylor and it was probably circa November 1993 (close to the end of construction, but prior to opening). Brown was civil-engineer, and the idea had been pitched to MBUK after finding about the use of bicycles by contractors to get around inside the tunnel. —Sladen (talk) 08:51, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've received a scan from Damon Brown along with some of the metadata:

Dutton-Taylor, Nick; Bohr, Steve; Brown, Damon (June 1994). Manley, Tym (ed.). "MBUK Opens Chunnel Shock!". Mountain Biking UK. Vol. 7, no. 6. Future Publishing. ISBN 9770954869039. ISSN 0954-8696. {{cite magazine}}: |section= ignored (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid prefix (help); Unknown parameter |price= ignored (help)

I can't make out the page numbers as these are off the edge. The rest of the test is readable. Four pages in total. —Sladen (talk) 17:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wally Michalski

Wally Michalski is shown holding a newspaper in a photograph[1] attributed to Jenn Pierce. The newspaper is not readable in the 619×485 version, but the text that can be made out appears to show "Weekender" "Chunneling under the Sea" "Saskatchewan workers made mark in world's largest engineering project". The article itself[2] suggests that was in the "1994 Regina Leader-Post"[3]. —Sladen (talk) 14:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MicDT, earlier this year I wasn't able to track down the rest of the metadata (author, page number, title, editor, ISSN, …) for the 1994 Canadian coverage. Do you still have a copy and can fill out the blanks? —Sladen (talk) 05:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cycling Weekly

These potential citations need tracking down and the metadata locating; see query above from earlier this year too:

This widely considered to be the first cross channel cycle trip in history. The crossing was originally detailed on a UK blog page^{[clarification needed]} called the Cross Connect Point. The Canadian Regina Leader‒Post newspaper of 7 May 1994 covered the event.<ref>Laker, Linda (7 August 2014). Cycling Weekly. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)</ref>

—Sladen (talk) 06:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably this [4] issue which shows an article entitled "Riding the Channel Tunnel". —Sladen (talk) 06:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]