Mark Beaumont

ford2600

velo.2010 wrote: »

It's an argument from ignorance to suggest that nobody but Mark Beaumont can do this challenge.

I haven't actually said that but I'll leave your strawman with you and an accusation of ignorance from a position of...

mr spuckler

velo.2010 wrote: »

It's an argument from ignorance to suggest that nobody but Mark Beaumont can do this challenge.

if he completes it then he'll be the only person in the world to have done it. so until someone else comes along and does it, the argument (which was never made anyway) would actually hold some water

selwyn froggitt

Didn't Mike Hall complete this before unsupported?

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.

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...

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

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.

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

selwyn froggitt

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

Very well done Mark Beaumont.

magicbastarder

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.

Saw the video earlier, some effort!!!. 15 or 16 punctures the whole trip.

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