[2] During one Sunday in October 1993, Wally Michalski and Mike Turner, working as contractors on the British side, used a pair of the Saracen bicycles to cycle the 100-kilometre (62 mi) round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again.
[3][4] In November 1993, journalists Nick Dutton-Taylor and Damon Brown used the same Saracen bicycles as other construction workers to cycle into the tunnel for an article in Mountain Biking UK.
[2] On the night of 2/3 December 1994,[9][10] a group of professional and semi-professional cyclists went road bicycle racing from London to Paris in aid of Téléthon en France '94 broadcast live on French national television.
[11][12] This 1994 peloton was led by Henri Sannier and accompanied by Jean-Michel Guidez,[13] Patrick Chêne,[14] Jean Mamère, Marc Toesca,[15] Thierry Marie,[14] Paul Belmondo,[14] Bernard Darniche,[14] Jean-François Guiborel[16] and others.
[18] On 9 November 2018, Children in Need's Rickshaw Challenge team rode through the tunnel on the first leg of their journey from Calais to Salford.