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Bikes in the Channel Tunnel are normally only allowed to cross the Channel Tunnel fixed link between the United Kingdom and France using the Eurotunnel cycle service, on board a Le Shuttle train. This consists of a minibus and bicycle trailer for six bicycles. On a number of special occasions, crossings have been made directly using the bidirectional Channel Tunnel service tunnel, positioned between the two rail tunnel bores. This central service tunnel has airlocks at both ends, and a concrete screed road surface. ==Construction== During construction, over 200 bicycles were used by construction workers. These consisted of 80 bicycles from Peugeot bicycles on the French side; plus 125 bicycles from Saracen Cycles on the British side. The Saracen mountain bikes had been ordered by plant manager Kevin Otto—an initial order of twenty-five had been ordered with the rest of the fleet following on later.〔 On the UK side, over 850 workers had been trained and issued with passes for their use inside the service tunnel.〔 During one Sunday in October 1993, Wally Michalski and Mike Turner, working as contractors on the British side, used a pair of the Saracen bicycles to cycle the 100-kilometre round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again. The journey took around five hours to complete, while wearing full overalls and needing to carry respirators. This widely considered to be the first cross channel cycle trip in history. The crossing was originally detailed on a UK blog page called the Cross Connect point. The story was later covered by the Regina Leader Post on May 7, 1994. In November 1993, journalists Nick Dutton-Taylor and Damon Brown used the same Saracen bicycles as other construction workers to cycle into the tunnel for an article in ''Mountain Biking UK''. They were trained and accompanied by the cycling trainer Clive, but not allowed to go the full way through.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bikes in the Channel Tunnel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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