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Mike_Cotty_StelvioMike Cotty holds Facebook Q&A tonight on his epic Mont Blanc ride
Last week, British cyclist Mike Cotty undertook what he had described beforehand as his “toughest challenge yet” – and this evening, he will be taking to his sponsor Mavic’s Facebook page to participate in a Question & Answer session about how he did it.
Cotty rode 1,012 kilometres from Conegliano in Italy to Chamonix in France, a journey that took him over 21 mountain passes in Italy, Switzerland and France, for a total height gain of 21,250 metres.
What’s more, he did the ride, known as the Road to Mont Blanc, without stopping, completing it in around 53 hours on this Cannondale SuperSix Evo HiMod 2014.
The Q&A session this evening starts at 6pm BST, 7pm CET, on Mavic’s Facebook page, and the company says that potential topics for questions could include “preparation, equipment choices, the hardest moments, nutrition, how he held it together and anything else you may wish to know.”
Cotty was followed on his epic ride by a film crew, with the final video due to appear in the coming weeks.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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