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As of September 2018, she holds the world record for paced bicycle land speed [1] [2] and is considered "the fastest cyclist on earth". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She set the record on September 16, 2018, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, by traveling an average of 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) on a custom-built carbon KHS bicycle behind a custom-built ...
The longest bicycle wheelie in one hour is 30.95 km (19.23 mi), and was achieved by Manuel Scheidegger (Switzerland) in Bern, Switzerland on 12 September 2020. [131] Kurt Osburn (nicknamed Wheelie King) from California, United States is the Guinness World Record holder for Longest Bicycle Wheelie, riding on the back wheel of a bicycle. [132]
The ride took 159 days as far as Kolkata and its distance exceeded 29,000 km. Kulkarni was 19 when she started and 20 when she finished the ride. [30] She became "the fourth fastest woman to cycle round the world, as well as the youngest". [31] [32]
Juliana Buhring (born 2 June 1981) is a British-German ultra-endurance cyclist and writer. In December 2012, she set the first Guinness World Record as the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe by bike, riding over 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi) in a total time of 152 days (144 actual days in the saddle).
Mark Ian Macleod Beaumont BEM (born 1 January 1983) [2] is a British long-distance cyclist, broadcaster and author. [3] [4] [5] He holds the record for cycling round the world, completing his 18,000-mile (29,000 km) route on 18 September 2017, having taken less than 79 days.
In the summer of 2011, Sanders became the first person to ride from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and back in under 49 days, 17 hours, a ride he completed on a Yamaha XT1200Z Super Ténéré. The first leg of the trip was completed in 21 days, just a few hours short of Dick Fish's record ride and easily outpacing the Guinness World Record of 35 ...
By then, however, he was closing the gap and therefore riding faster than the train. Sam Booth shut off steam. Murphy crashed into the train. The bike tipped up and Murphy let go and grabbed an upright bar. Fullerton caught one arm and a man called Joseph H. Cummin the other and they pulled both bike and rider to the platform.
After he turned 106 Marchand's doctors advised him to stop competing for world records. He obliged, but refused to quit racing completely. In early February 2018, Marchand completed a 4,000-meter race in the same stadium where he made his last record. [9] Marchand celebrated his 107th birthday by going for a 20-kilometre bike ride in the ...