The longest bike race in the world! – Page 2 – Bike Forum

bland · 2012-02-18T20:26:29Z

Started today! Its called the World Cycle Race (was going to be the global bike race) and involves 10 riders all gunning for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe (18000 miles through antipodes in one continual direction) Riders left Greenwich at 9 this morning and some are aiming for just over 100 days! The current record stands at 106 days but that was a supported effort and isnt differentiated currently by Guiness, the REAL record is something like 163 days held by Vin Cox who was planning on organising the event as a "RACE" but it all kind of fell apart due to sponsorship and other details related to money. Anyhow, my mate Mike Hall (Strathpuffer solo winner last year) is going for it (you may have also seen some write ups about him doing the Great Divide race last year so if you want someone to follow send him some words of wisdom [urlof guff here about it on the enemy[/url] [urlHall's site is here[/url] [urlthe link to the trackers is here[/url]

Blackhound

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[url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=one_set72157630050413192 [/url]

He was on Sky Sports earlier still in his kit.

And a nice piece here:

[url] http://road.cc/content/news/59544-mike-hall-smashes-round-world-record-time-91-days-18-hours#comment-103876 [/url]

Posted : 04/06/2012 9:22 pm

bland

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And also on the PM show on radio 4, scroll to around 37/38 mins in

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jgj0c ]Mike on Radio 4 PM Show[/url]

Posted : 04/06/2012 10:08 pm

JRTG

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It's a good listen! Just after the Russian bit.....

Posted : 04/06/2012 10:33 pm

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