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Damon Brown and Nick [unknown] of Mountain Biking UK magazine appear to have cycled part way into the service tunnel in c.1994/1995.

  • "Ben Nevis ridable?" (comment). Bike Magic. 9 May 2001. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Who do you think we are?MBUK absailing into quaries with bikes on our backs, and riding through the channel tunnel.
  • "Singletrack latest issue WTF". 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Lets not forget MBUK of oldish days … It also did features on riding through the Channel Tunnel before it opened to trains
  • "road.cc – Timeline photos". 7 July 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. An MBUK journalist rode through the tunnel … Damon Brown That was me and my friend Nick but we didn't ride all the way through. Well remembered!
  • "Video: Chris Froome v the Channel Tunnel". 7 July 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015. Didn't MBUK ride through the Channel Tunnel shortly after it opened? Or possibly during construction? There was definitely a feature along those lines.

Sladen (talk) 06:46, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Having tracked down Damon Brown, the other rider was Nick Dutton-Taylor and it was probably circa November 1993 (close to the end of construction, but prior to opening). Brown was civil-engineer, and the idea had been pitched to MBUK after finding about the use of bicycles by contractors to get around inside the tunnel. —Sladen (talk) 08:51, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've received a scan from Damon Brown along with some of the metadata:
  • Dutton-Taylor, Nick; Bohr, Steve; Brown, Damon (June 1994). Manley, Tym (ed.). "MBUK Opens Chunnel Shock!". Mountain Biking UK. Vol. 7, no. 6. Future Publishing. ISBN 9770954869039. ISSN 0954-8696. {{cite magazine}}: |section= ignored (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid prefix (help); Unknown parameter |price= ignored (help)
I can't make out the page numbers as these are off the edge. The rest of the test is readable. Four pages in total. —Sladen (talk) 17:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wally Michalski

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Wally Michalski is shown holding a newspaper in a photograph[1] attributed to Jenn Pierce. The newspaper is not readable in the 619×485 version, but the text that can be made out appears to show "Weekender" "Chunneling under the Sea" "Saskatchewan workers made mark in world's largest engineering project". The article itself[2] suggests that was in the "1994 Regina Leader-Post"[3]. —Sladen (talk) 14:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MicDT, earlier this year I wasn't able to track down the rest of the metadata (author, page number, title, editor, ISSN, …) for the 1994 Canadian coverage. Do you still have a copy and can fill out the blanks? —Sladen (talk) 05:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cycling Weekly

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These potential citations need tracking down and the metadata locating; see query above from earlier this year too:

This widely considered to be the first cross channel cycle trip in history. The crossing was originally detailed on a UK blog page[clarification needed] called the Cross Connect Point. The Canadian Regina Leader‒Post newspaper of 7 May 1994 covered the event.<ref>Laker, Linda (7 August 2014). Cycling Weekly. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)</ref>

Sladen (talk) 06:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably this [4] issue which shows an article entitled "Riding the Channel Tunnel". —Sladen (talk) 06:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]