Name: Cycle Through Dubai's Best Kept Secrets
Uploaded: 2019-05-05T13:17:21.000Z
Duration: 4 min 38 s
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- Cycling as a sport, as a hobby, and as a recreation,

is just something that's opened up to everybody,

and I think that's one of the nice things about Dubai

is that you find yourself becoming a big family.

The wind blowing, and it's raising your heart rate up.

Everything else just starts to calm down.

You're just out there, completely you on your own,

there's a wash of calm that just comes over you.

and I'm an endurance athlete with the current world record

I've had that sense of curiosity about the world.

Today I'm meeting Stewart to find out how Dubai's

- When you get out in the morning on the Al Qudra

cycle track and the sun rises over the desert,

there's just that palette of oranges and blues

and it's so quiet and so serene out there

that I don't think that there's many places on Earth

As it is now to what it was eight nine years ago,

Now we have probably what is the most iconic

saying can we build you a cycle track in the desert?

- Seven eight years ago, there was a handful of us

I'd say there are thousands of people out here.

- So now we're gonna go and find some hills

You can see what the hills in Dubai look like.

Do you see more and more riders out here,

or do they tend to stick close to the city?

- So good because it is a nice different challenge

You think you're gonna be the only one when you get here,

and yeah, good couple hundred riders out in a group.

At this time of day, you can kinda see the way the light

is starting to change and sort of cast those deep shadows.

- I think you're gonna have to take a big deep breath now.

Do you also kinda find that cycling gives people

a different perspective on Dubai because a lot of people,

if they've not been here, or maybe they've been on holiday,

- There's so many things that happen outside

You're a stone's throw away from a hustling bustle

You're a stone's throw away out into the desert

to go and cycle or up to Hatta Mountains to go play

Year on year, Dubai changes insanely fast,

I mean I've seen it in my world as a professional

In the last ten years, that's just exploded

And here in Dubai, it's been matched with building

of cycle tracks and huge investment and events

I can see through spending quality time with Stewart,

To land here and see somebody who is so ingrained

in the culture and trying to make a change,

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