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From 2 April to 16 July 1984 Jay Aldous and Matt DeWaal rode 22,997 km/14,290 miles in 106 days, riding a greater distance in a shorter time than Nick Sanders in 1981. Aldous and DeWaal started and ended in Salt Lake City, US, and traveled in an easterly direction passing through 15 different countries. Matt DeWaal.
George Pilkington Mills set the record at 417 kilometres (259 mi) circa 1890. Cyril Heppleston set the road record at 770 kilometres (478 mi) circa 1938. [44] Hubert Opperman set the road record at 814 kilometres (506 mi) in Melbourne on 5 December 1939.
A tandem mountain bike. A tandem loaded for bicycle touring with front and rear racks and panniers. A large tandem, or more specifically, a quint (for five people) Tandem bicycle in use in Tokyo. A tandem bicycle or twin is a bicycle (occasionally a tricycle) designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating ...
Tandem. Horses hitched in tandem pulling a carriage. Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which two or more animals, machines, or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. [1] Tandem can also be used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects working together, not necessarily in line.
Parachuting. Parachuting and skydiving are a method of transiting from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes. For human skydiving, it may involve a phase of more or less free-falling (the skydiving segment) which is ...
John o' Groats. Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities, in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance by road is 874 miles (1,407 km) and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days; the record for running the route is nine days. Off-road walkers typically walk about ...
Whitewater kayaker at Great Falls, Virginia, United States. A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle. The word kayak originates from the Inuktitut word qajaq (IPA: [qajɑq]). In British English, the kayak is also considered to be a kind of canoe.
Powered paraglider at a Kanagawa beach in Japan, 2022. Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on level ground, by the pilot alone—no ...