| | Articles - Track cycling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles. |
 | | In timed events, riders will often use triathlon bars designed to allow the rider to extend their arms in front of their body which leans forward almost to the horizontal so as to present the minimum frontal area and thus reducing drag. |
 | | Track cycling is particularly popular in Europe, notably Belgium, France, Germany and Great Britain where it is often used as off-season training by road racers (professional six-day ´Madison´ events were often entered by two-man teams comprising a leading road racer and a track specialist). |
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