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Up Mont Ventoux four times in one day.

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  • #2
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    What can you say to that? Unbelievable.

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  • #3
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Never mind going up, I imagine coming back down again must be terrifying.


  • #4
    boonen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭boonen


    Wow, huge huge respect. 1 times is kinda "Ok well done", 4 times there are no words.


  • #5
    Diarmuid
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    How about 11 ascents in 24hrs?


  • #6
    blorg
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    Diarmuid wrote: »
    How about 11 ascents in 24hrs?
    Not on a unicycle, doesn't count.


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  • #7
    Lumen
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    IIRC riding a unicycle over a distance doesn't take any more energy than walking, maybe less.

    It's just like a zero wheelbase, low geared fixie.

    Doing the same route on foot in clown shoes would also be impressive.


  • #8
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Lumen wrote: »
    IIRC riding a unicycle over a distance doesn't take any more energy than walking, maybe less.

    It's just like a zero wheelbase, low geared fixie.

    Doing the same route on foot in clown shoes would also be impressive.

    Doing the same route on a clown bike would also be impressive.

    n_clown_bike_070402.300w.jpg


  • #9
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Blowfish wrote: »
    Never mind going up, I imagine coming back down again must be terrifying.

    He didn't descend on the unicycle... just packed into the support van and drove down.
    Lumen wrote: »
    IIRC riding a unicycle over a distance doesn't take any more energy than walking, maybe less.

    Doing any distance on a bicycle too requires far less energy than doing the same distance on foot.


  • #10
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Húrin wrote: »
    Doing any distance on a bicycle too requires far less energy than doing the same distance on foot.
    There may be a point where this ceases to be true (as you are carrying the weight of the bicycle as well as yourself) but probably at a gradient far in excess of that seen on Ventoux or any other climb for that matter.


  • #11
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


    He makes it look easy. Daft bugger, fair play to him.


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