JOGLE madness...on a BMX!!!!!

[winjohn]

Just started watching this, some mad 6ft 6in guy trying to ride the length of the UK on a standard BMX. If he wants to pedal he has to stand up. He is also taking all his gear with him!

I'd lve to try it before I turn 70...but maybe not on a BMX.

 

[Frankenorange]

The next one to keep an eye on is happening soon. A LEJOGLE by a Canadian woman who is going to try an take the outright record. An amazing back story to this.

http://lejogle.org/

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...-from-paralysis-aiming-for-the-lejogle-record

 

[novocaine]

you have to be tapped to do it on a touring bike, doing it on anything else is quite frankly insane. trying to beat the record, is insane, doing it at all, is insane.

well done to the short guy on the BMX and to the Sarah, you are both mental in a good way.

 

[winjohn]

I was the crew chief on the Race Across America in 2008 managing a team supporting a British guy over 3000 miles. You have to finish in 12 days or you DNF. He finished with 12 minutes to spare!

The winner that year completed it in 7 days or thereabouts. Complete and utter madness all of it but in a magnificent way!

 

[bagpuss]

Paddy on a chopper that was an impressive end to end ride .

 

[bagpuss]

I was the crew chief on the Race Across America in 2008 managing a team supporting a British guy over 3000 miles. You have to finish in 12 days or you DNF. He finished with 12 minutes to spare!

The winner that year completed it in 7 days or thereabouts. Complete and utter madness all of it but in a magnificent way!

Not Chris Hopkinson by any chance?

 

[winjohn]

No it was a chap called Jim Rees. He was not a great cyclist tbh but just a tough MF who could take endless pain and no sleep!

 

[novocaine]

No it was a chap called Jim Rees. He was not a great cyclist tbh but just a tough MF who could take endless pain and no sleep!

was he the dude who injured his neck half way through and wound up making a frame out of drain pipe to support his head?

 

[winjohn]

Yup, you must have seen the movie!

 

[novocaine]

Yup, you must have seen the movie!

vague recollection of it. also, share's a name with me, so I was interested from the outset.