I challenged Olympic champion Ed Clancy to an e-bike race… and lost comically

‘It wasn’t my most famous victory, but it’s one of my finest,’ says three-time gold medallist

Ed Clancy racing a BMC at the London Olympic velopark
Ed Clancy left me in his wake on the Lee Valley VeloPark circuit
(Image credit: EBK/Whistle Group)

It’s a perfect spring morning and I’m in East London, killing time under the shadow of the Pringles-shaped dome that is the Lee Valley Velodrome

I’ve come to meet Ed Clancy, a three-time Olympic team pursuit champion with Team GB and now ambassador of a new e-road bike racing series - the EBK. He doesn’t know it yet, but in about half an hour, I’m going to ambush him with a proposition: a straightforward, two-up bike race. 

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