CONTINENTAL THRIFT

At the start of last summer, Fiona Kolbinger was an unknown. Then, out of the blue, the 24-year-old German medical student won the gruelling Transcontinental Race (TCR), beating the second-place rider by 10 hours – and winning the hearts of dot watchers – those who follow the moving GPS location of riders online - with her grit and versatility.

Kolbinger came to Look Mum, No Hands in Old Street on a warm September afternoon with fellow rider Bjorn Lenhart, for the official TCR race debrief. Her achievements made global headlines, alongside images of a tough, self-reliant competitor, smiling on the bike, or pumping her tyres at the roadside in a blue travel-stained jersey, with inner