By @IainTreloar
Publication Date: 2026-04-02 05:04:00
Culture
A viral clip leads back to a quiet street corner in Mexico – and a moment that’s more than it first appears.
Every so often, something bike-adjacent pops up on social media and has a little moment of virality. In the past, these have tended to be little portals of wonder: a recoloured old picture of a boy with a wooden bike, for instance, or Chris Froome ostensibly telling Nairo Quintana a ‘yo mama’ joke. But lately, some things have changed.
Part of the blame for this falls on AI; surely it must. There’s something calculated in the way these clips ricochet across…
