Weatherday: Velocipede winner

Dry and warm, mostly sunny, with hazy high cloud at times. Temperatures reaching around 21deg with light winds getting a bit breezier around lunchtime.

Wear the sunscreen.

On this day in 1868, the first recorded bicycle race was won by a British rider, Dr James Moore, in a 2K velocipede race in Paris.

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