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Amazing stuff. He'll have to keep up a fair pace for a good few months to break that record!
A friend of a friend is doing London to Sydney at the moment. Makes me so jealous every time I check how far he's got...
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I'd never seen a belt drive in the flesh (or rather carbon/rubber and lord knows what else mix) before; quite fascinating.
If all goes to plan he'll get back to Dover in mid-September. I and some others are planning to ride with him from there or from Sittingbourne to Hyde Park but anyone who wants to come along will be very welcome. I'll post something on the Rides forum nearer the time.
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Excellent... I will also be keeping tabs.
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Amazing stuff. He'll have to keep up a fair pace for a good few months to break that record!
A friend of a friend is doing London to Sydney at the moment. Makes me so jealous every time I check how far he's got...
Good stats. Camping most of the way too - a purist.
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I thought it looked well dull when that Beaumont chap did it.
Getting to ride all the way round the world sounds like the most amazing adventure.
But having to do it without stopping to see anything, meeting people etc just pedalling like mad. Seems like pure hell.
He should ride round the world & have some fun. If he want to break records/win medals he should go enter a race.
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tell him to watch his bike once he gets back to portsmouth
theiving fneckers down that part of the worldRound-the-world cyclist's bike stolen in UK
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div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}[SIZE=2][/SIZE]He's been knocked down by a truck in the Chilean desert, chased by a mob through the streets of Haiti, burnt by a volcano in Central America, and arrested and shot at more times than he cares to remember.
But in 44 years on the road, covering 335,000 miles or more than ten times around the Earth, Heinz Stücke has always had his lucky bicycle for company - until this week, when the German 'Bike Man' had it stolen within a few hours of arriving in the UK.
Herr Stücke, 66, arrived in Portsmouth on Sunday evening of a ferry from the French port of Le Havre and put up his tent nearby. A few hours later, at 3am on Monday, he realised that his bike - which he had tied up with rope and bungee cord - had gone missing.
He told the Portsmouth News:[SIZE=2] "I always sleep with my tent door open so that I can see it.'I woke up at 3am and I immediately thought 'I must check my bike' – like I always do. But when I looked outside, it was gone."[/SIZE]
The stolen three-speed bicycle, on which the record-breaking cyclist has ridden since he started his "endless journey" in 1962, is black with two sets of handlebars to allow Herr Stücketo change his riding position. It is also covered with stickers from around the world.
Herr Stücke got the cycling bug as a child, cycling through the German countryside on his holidays. He took his first extended trip in 1958, around the Mediterranean, and set off again a year later pedalling more than 10,000 miles through 20 countries.
Finally in 1962, with John F Kennedy still in the White House, he set off for good.
Pc Paul Jones, the Portsmouth policeman who received the report of the theft, has taken pity on the cyclist and arranged for him to receive another bike from police lost property.
[SIZE=2]Herr Stücke said that he appreciated the gesture but added that he would keep on hunting for the old one.[/SIZE]
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That makes me sad, poor Herr Stücke :-(
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I thought it looked well dull when that Beaumont chap did it.
Getting to ride all the way round the world sounds like the most amazing adventure.
But having to do it without stopping to see anything, meeting people etc just pedalling like mad. Seems like pure hell.
He should ride round the world & have some fun. If he want to break records/win medals he should go enter a race.
Huh???
How have you managed to express negativity about that feat?
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Captain Negative does have a point though. I'd love to ride around the world and spend as long as I wanted doing it. I'm very impressed with the deed but it's a little sad that the guys won't get much time for fun. Around the world though still pales in comparison to this guy.. 330k per day for a whole year. http://thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=724
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Pfft. I'd it in 4 months,
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If he want to break records/win medals he should go enter a race.
Surely breaking a record is a sort of race? and maybe the guy just fancies caning around the world. Riding non-stop all day everday for 150 days pushing yourself to your limits sounds like some excellent fun and would build shit loads of character.
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Build loads of saddle sores.. :)
True.
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Is he supported by a driver in front? Or is he just pushing it all himself with all panniers and sleeping bags etc.
Cause I'd be up for giving this record a beating if someone could drive with all my shit and GPS out the route so I don't go off course.
No it's self supported.
What really surprises me is that some guy who is really good at Audax events like Steve Abraham has not just taken this on and smashed it. This guy nor Mark whatever his name is seemed to have a history in this type of thing not saying they should not attempt it but just surprised someone accustomed to doing mega miles has not done the challenge.
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No it's self supported.
What really surprises me is that some guy who is really good at Audax events like Steve Abraham has not just taken this on and smashed it. This guy nor Mark whatever his name is seemed to have a history in this type of thing not saying they should not attempt it but** just surprised someone accustomed to doing mega miles has not done the challenge.**
They have a life? Wife and kids to look after?
I also want to know the rules of these type of things, surely the guys at Guinness (records) have to give out specific regulations to what he can and can't do....like transport wise and help from others, grabbing on to cars....cycling behind cars to get a better slipstream?
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They have a life? Wife and kids to look after?
You're probably right the distance kings tend not be free early 20's.
I also want to know the rules of these type of things, surely the guys at Guinness (records) have to give out specific regulations to what he can and can't do....like transport wise and help from others, grabbing on to cars....cycling behind cars to get a better slipstream?
Surely it'd be fuck all easy if you always had a car in front of you keeping you from cycling into the wind.You would have to be supported to have a car drafting you so that would not be possible, you can meet up with people every so often but you have to carry all your own stuff and vitrify the distances in several ways too.
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I know you must go through two opposite points on the globe. And your computer must have 18000miles (or something like that at the end).
In terms of support etc. I don't know.
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This is a bit of a plug but an appropriate one.
A friend of mine (James) is currently trying to break the world record time for a circumnavigation by bicycle. He's not doing it fixed but it's hard enough. Current record is 194 days and a few hours set by Mark Beaumont last year. James is trying to knock a month and a half off that - madness but I suppose we all need goals.
The bike is a Santos with Rohloff hub and belt drive. It'll be interesting to see how the belt holds up over 18000 miles.
There's live tracking of him at http://www.whereintheworldisjames.com/ which i've found quite addictive and his main site is http://www.globecycle.org/. He's blogging and Twittering all the way as I suppose one would expect these days.
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