Ultracycling

I see Mark Beaumont has announced an attempt on the round the world record, looking to go sub 80 days

Supported.

Supported with some interesting route options.

Good for him though. Hope he does it.
He's clearly strong.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/03/british-athlete-mark-beaumont-cycle-around-the-world-in-80-days

Not sure why I'm always a misrable prick about supported stuff.
Nothing wrong with that.

16h a day in the saddle is 16h a day.

During the day I put it in my pocket/bag, as you definitely notice the extra weight if it's on there all day, but otherwise it was fine.

Not sure why I'm always a misrable prick about supported stuff.

Me too. it's cheating.

I planned to have a bar mount for it. Of course, it would help if I actually bought one...

Just like training.

And being skinny.

Or fit.

Ha!
I wouldn't go that far. But it's not the same.

Supported = commercial reasons.
Unsupported = because you love it.

Sorry, I forgot ! at the end to signify a joke. I think it's just more purist and like @hanford says, 'because you love it'

I think unsupported can be commercialised.

To me, unsupported is just pure. Plus, I don't like other people or relying on them, so it's simpler. My support crew would make it a day before they told me to do one and went to the pub. I'm an arse.

Plus, I don't like other people or relying on them

Absofuckinglutely.

I just prepared all the food I'll need for a large skive off work ride tomorrow. I hate stopping at crappy shops and buying crappy food from crappy people. #curmudgeon

This is Mark's job now though isn't it, so guess supported will earn him more income.looks like the BBC are going to be filming it so he'll get some tv rights money compared to the penny's he must earn off his YouTube videos he shot last time he did it unsupported. No doubt another book as well as the Africa one is already out in paperback.

Except that's totally wrong.

I raced 24hrs with a support team and with no commercial interests.
Why? Because I wanted to fucking win it and unsupported is a disadvantage in terms of simple average speed.

Strasser - RAAM and TransOz records, supported. Good luck beating his records unsupported. Perhaps there's scope for unofficial unsupported records but the simple fact is Guinness don't give a shit if you're supported/unsupported so if you want to go further for a given timeframe, best take a team.

So he wants to do 240 for 80 days, isn't Steve Abraham doing about 230 a day at the moment for his year record?

Yeah but racing around the world is a bit bloody different to ride out and back to your house every day!

bro do u even logistics? flights? languages? food? traffic? navigation? the list goes on...

IIRC Steve Abraham has indicated that he is interested in a TABR or Redbull type event in the future.

Unlike you snobs I'm not disparaging any of these rides. Just pointing out how very different all these things are and until you've looked into them with any depth, calling them anything less than heroic in most cases is doing them a disservice.

Full length of Russia sounds horrible but guess he must of researched it and though it better option than Central Asia, probably much nicer temperature.hope he likes looking at trees. Road were crap when I was there a decade ago, must of improved. Maybe that red bull race showed it's a option.

With a trailing vehicle, Russia might be made safer and it's probably faster than India with relatively better roads (I'm guessing, never ridden either).