Well done Rob, fantastic effort. What's next on the agenda? After a rest of course 😉
Fanstastic - well done Rob!
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From everyone at the Southdowns MTB Club
If he wasn't asleep I'm sure he would be thanking everyone for their support along the way, back, along then...
Just got the tired lad home. He was still quite lucid and chatty as we drove away from Winchester, but then started to slur his words a bit and dozed off a couple of times. He's now in the bath with a nice hot cup of tea. I don't expect to see him surface from his bed for a couple of days. A fantastic achievement which couldn't have been done without a fantastic team of people from the South Downs Mountain Bike Club who were either his support crew on the various legs (and putting in extremely long hours), or who just turned up at various checkpoints to give him encouragement. He owes you big time!
Incredible...well done, an amazing achievement 😀
Rode the last 30 miles with him. Could not believe his clear state of mind. A truly epic achievement.
well done rob 😀
Absolute madness. In complete awe
Well done
Some more pics from the finish. Plenty of people there to cheer him over the line! He looked fresh as a daisy, and in remarkably good shape considering.
The approach to Winchester.
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Rob finally comes to a stop, after around 400 miles.
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His home for the last 55 hours and 5 minutes.
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One way was enough for me. Well done Rob!
Unbelievable achievement truly awe inspiring sir
Inspirational! Well done Rob! Enjoy the rest!
An awesome undertaking. Huge congratulations.... rest well
WoW !
Thats an amazing achievement.
Well done are simple words and barely convey my best wishes.
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Excellent stuff, well done Rob!!! 🙂
Brilliant achievement, quite bonkers for me, completely in awe
Well done Fella !!!
Amazing! 😀
Crikey. That man is a certifiable nutcase. Congratulations, I hope you've got a nice comfy chair at home.
Mindbendingly bonkers. Comprehensibly unfeasible. Lunacy personified.
Top effort Rob.
There i was, at 9am this morning, enjoying my porridge at the side of the SDW, when 2 chaps rode up towards me.
On a fatbike bivi ride - well loaded up
We all say hello, and one of the guys says "ahh, i seen you yesterday near Devils Dyke"
I say "yes, yes you did - you must be doing the double"
No he says, "i'm doing the Double Double"
I say what - like the Quadruple????
I then asked if he has had any sleep?
He says yes, he had 15 minutes "because the sleep monster got me...."
He must have been 50 hours into his ride at this point and he remembered exactly where he had seen me the day before!!!
Well done Rob - an inspiration to us all - you cheered my ride up no end!! 🙂
Amazing achievement and huge props to you Rob!
Can't believe how chirpy you were when the four of us accosted you just before Ditchling Beacon (3/4 way through leg 3) - looked like you'd just popped down to the shops and back!
Well done!
Un-believe-able. The grandest chapeau.
Nice story @bolton
Bah, First time on STW in months and I miss this :roll:. I went out for Rich S's triple effort in 2011 and thought that was barking. This is just another level 8)
We've had two National 24 hour (road) time trials in Sussex in recent years and I've watched guys smash out 500+ miles on those. However I can't comprehend the effort required to do 400 off road AND to keep going for two days!
Champion effort sir
Well, I am staggered at how many wonderful comments have been written about a ride on the downs.
Thanks to all folks who gave up their time over the weeekend to feed and water me, to take piccies, to clap and laugh at me, the companies who helped with equipment, and of course the 'good weather pixies' who allowed it to happen this time.
I could do a Richard Sterry and write a book, but he was there first and set the bar, so please read his and just add another chapter at the end.
I will take a few days off and hope to see you all at the Barley Mow for as much curry as you can eat on Wednesday evening.
Thanks again, I'm going back to bed.
Chapeau. Nothing else to add.
This is a story of a man completed addicted to cycling, he's just been mainlinig his drug for 2 days solid and is now on a massive come down. (& eat & sleep) That manly stance pictured a few days ago, which some mocked, is very well deserved imo.
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Fantastic - well impressed! Well done Sir.
I just got to read the whole thread in detail (and with a clear head) and realised that piccie had already been posted - oops.
Having all you can eat curry in the pub with the whole crew tonight!
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but the sign said "all you can eat"
ealised that piccie had already been posted - oops.
I think the whole of STW will let you off in the circumstances
I was sat at home yesterday waiting for a new fridge, so I finished my blog with a summary of the ride!
https://southdownswaydoubledouble.wordpress.com/
and take a peek at the 'mission accomplished' tab.
I'm off to do some downhilling and catching a van to the top.
and there are a bunch of piccies on the South Downs Mountain Bike club page on FB
Having ridden Winchester to Storrington (about halfway) last Friday and been nearly broken by it (the weather was atrocious), I'm in awe of this achievement. Hat's off to you! Well done!
Congratulations! I kept checking in on this thread and the live tracking throughout your ride and remain astounded by the whole endeavour. I'm done after a 5 hour ride, let alone 55 hours!!!!!!
I'm still in awe - incredible acheivement!!
Rob - just the one puncture during the whole ride or did you have more mechanicals?
Just the one puncture. I think my SPOT was a little slow to get in the game early on.
Oh, my gps turned itself off 35 times (all on bumpy downhill sections).... I think it missed a couple of miles overall as I didn't always notice it straight away. It is a Garmin Etrex Legend and about 5 years old. I had wedgied the battery terminals as they say in the 'fix' but it still randomly turned itself off.
It took an hour to get the track in order using Basecamp; if anybody wants the file, I'll find out how to publish it (assistance welcome here)
wow - 400 miles and only one mechanical
I was in a group who suffered 18 punctures between Truleigh Hill and Eastbourne one wet afternoon - it was emotional 🙁
Just seen this thread - absolutely mind boggling effort - I'm in awe, congradulations!!
I shall think of you next time I'm fretting about a century on the road bike and no doubt that thought will banish all worries from my mind.
Only just noticed this too!
Amazing achievement, I cant comprehend how anyone could put themselves and their arse through that lol!
I still havent done the single (in a day) 😳 - I wont bother telling anyone if I do!
How about that?
The new edition of MBR just did a page about my ride and its pretty darn accurate.
It brings back happy memories of a great weekend ride!
Wots MBR? 😕
Anyways, we enjoyed following you 😀
Well, a year on since the SDW double double and I'm just off on an ITT of the Tour Divide.
Its not a cheap game this one.
So, next year could be a sub 50 hour double double (and I can be home in time for tea) instead of taking about 4 days to get back from Antelope Wells to England.
