The Best Riding Music, Cycling & Training Tunes

this tune is all over Elgar Cello concerto,
pretty awesome actually, that bit at 1.54 though, is it deliberate?

Yup and yup.
For a), it brutalises it a little but does it in a sympathetic enough way I feel. Not your standard amen break meets violins bastardisation.
and for b) deliberate, but not on the album version, just the video. There's a much longer proper intro on the album version too, bumps it up to 7 minutes ish.
The whole rossz csillag alatt született album is worth a listen if you like your beats slightly broken but reasonably intelligent. Hard going at times though.