Want to experience what it’s like to ride in the pro peloton? Hurt specialists The Sufferfest have teamed up with Team Giant-Shimano to create a new training video that casts you, the viewer, as a rookie plucked from obscurity to join your heroes.
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“When this amateur, this unknown Sufferlandrian came through, beating some of the best riders on the planet and won the Tour of Sufferlandria, the whole world took notice,” said Wade Wallace, editor of CyclingTips.com.au. “So it was no surprise when big teams started calling the Sufferlandrian team director Gunther Von Agony.”
The teaser video sees Team Giant-Shimano’s John Degenkolb shouting at the Sufferlandrian recruit as he fights to merit his inclusion in the team during stages of this year’s Tour of California and Tour de Suisse: