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Michael Hutchinson

'You young Zwifters, you don’t know you’re born': In memory of life before smart trainers

Dr Hutch pedals a turbo in a war zone.

It is that time of year that one’s thoughts turn towards winter training, and, with a small shudder, towards indoor training.

As you know, I don’t like to overplay my Old Man of the Long Road routine. But for once I’m going to, just to say this: if you think bikes have changed over the last couple of decades, or that clothing, helmets, racing, doping or TV coverage have changed, none of it compares to how turbo training has changed.

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