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Mark Beaumont

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  • #32
    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    Didn't Mike Hall complete this before unsupported?


  • #33
    velo.2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭velo.2010


    Really, there should have been a group of guys racing this from the start with similar support. Then we'd get an idea about who can and who can't do it.

    Perhaps more corporates will sponsor cyclists to take up the challenge next year with similar levels of support.


  • #34
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    selwyn froggitt wrote: »
    Didn't Mike Hall complete this before unsupported?

    91 days or so.

    When he got back to England guy in 2nd place was in India...


  • #35
    monkeybutter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,149 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    velo.2010 wrote: »
    Really, there should have been a group of guys racing this from the start with similar support. Then we'd get an idea about who can and who can't do it.

    Perhaps more corporates will sponsor cyclists to take up the challenge next year with similar levels of support.


    Only requirement for entry will be have you done 385k in one day, at some point, your life, that's it, if so you are in, Corporations be all over ya then


  • #36
    jinkypolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭jinkypolly


    ford2600 wrote: »
    91 days or so.

    When he got back to England guy in 2nd place was in India...

    That 91 days doesn't include travel or waiting time for ferries and flights, his actual time would be 107 days under the Guinness World Record rules.


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  • #37
    brocbrocach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭brocbrocach


    velo.2010 wrote: »
    Really, there should have been a group of guys racing this from the start with similar support. Then we'd get an idea about who can and who can't do it.

    Perhaps more corporates will sponsor cyclists to take up the challenge next year with similar levels of support.

    That would be great craic to watch. A bit like Phileas Fogg and the evil wolf knocking down bridges in his path etc


  • #38
    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes......An amazing effort.

    Very well done Mark Beaumont.


  • #39
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZvQjndzISQ

    2:10 in - he's not slept for more than five hours since starting this. i don't like going into the office on five hours sleep, let alone having to cycle over 350km on five hours sleep. and repeat that 78 times.


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
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    Saw the video earlier, some effort!!!. 15 or 16 punctures the whole trip.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZvQjndzISQ


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