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Meg Elliot

'Mark Cavendish was in the booth with me the whole night, and he was crying' – Pete Tong on when music meets cycling

Pete Tong performs at the Isle of Wite festival.

It’s early evening when I speak to British dance music pioneer, Pete Tong, squeezed in the minutes on his schedule between a spin class and a sound bath in central London.

The room is scattered with cameras and laptops and notebooks lying open on their spines. But when I ask Tong about cycling, he’s transported somewhere different, eyes in the middle distance, remembering the chopper bike he’d ride around North Kent on as a kid, to the Specialized StumpJumper he’d tour round Richmond Park two decades later.

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