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| Reuters |
Glasgow's usually busy streets were becalmed ahead of the weekend with cars banished from the city centre and only the occasional whirr of expensive bicycle wheels raising the volume.
It will be a far more manic scene on Sunday, however, when the men's road race of the UCI World Championships reaches what is likely to be a thrilling conclusion on a truly unique course.
The 271km layout, the longest ever in world championships history, begins in Edinburgh, crosses the Forth Bridge and for the first 120km is nothing out of the ordinary.
