Mark Cavendish and Pete Kennaugh sportingly accepted defeat to Australia's Cameron Meyer and Callum Scotson at the Six Day London, with Cavendish describing Meyer as "the best track rider on the planet and the best track rider of our generation."
Cavendish will now head to Japan to ride the ASO Tour de France Saitama criterium on Saturday, November 4.
Cavendish and Kennaugh ended Sunday's sixth day of racing 94 more points ahead but a lap down on the Australian pair, while Belgians Kenny de Ketele and Moreno de Pauw were just 38 points down on the Manxmen and completed the final podium.
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"We've got to be happy with that [second place]. We really didn't expect to be on the podium," Cavendish said, considering that Kennaugh was riding a Six Day event for the first time in his career.
"We went for two laps really early on but we got chased. Then I took a really long lap and it killed me by half way. But we had to keep going and going. On another day we could be chased down, go out the back and lose a lap."
Cavendish explained that he and Kennaugh saved their strength for one final attack. They opened a 100-metre lead as the laps counted down but Meyer and Scotson were able to do enough to stop them catching the tail of the group and pulling back that decisive lap.
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