CQ22-Digital

1. What you never needed to know about
Ramunas Navardauskas:
One of our all-time favourite riders, we asked
Ramunas some tough questions – and he obliged:
First Memory of riding a bike?
“Me riding an oversized bike. That bike was so
big that I could not even ride on the top tube.
Seat was much higher! So me as a kid riding on a
bike, pushing my hip next to top tube, and myself
sideways trying to hold balance and still going
same speed as my friends! I was not the only one to
ride like that. So it was kind of normal behaviour.”
Most ridiculous moment on a bike?
“All about crashes. But one was super classic. I
crashed before the start and landed on my butt.
It wasn’t painful, we were riding slow and it was
one of those ridiculous crashes. But my shorts
broke and broke in a spot where . . . Well, you could
see the sweet spot . . . For a while I was riding in
the back of the peloton of shame. But at the end,
a race is a race and I was racing. That day I made
many happy faces. I was the star of the day!”
2. Girona – cycling mecca of the pros and
where we call home:
Latest update from the ground here: Robert
Gesink and his wife Daisy have opened Girona’s
latest hotspot – Hors Catégorie Girona. With
an interior to die for (think bench seating styled
like a velodrome) and endless bike storage, the
collaboration with long-esteemed Flax and Kale in
Barcelona has raised the bar once again for postride
eats and brews (coffees and beers of course).
Tacos, Buddah Bowls and Kombucha for the
health-minded, but plenty of guilty pleasures to go
alongside too. Check it out on Instagram
@horscategoriegirona.
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