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[email protected]>, geze
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[email protected]) wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> just one of those things that come up in the pub... would take a while to
> ride, for sure!
An Unruly Mob of Penniless Student Oaves from Imperial College did it in
1983, inna-team-stylee, in order to raise money for Charidee - in this
case the RNLI. 'twas done mostly with the world's first fully-faired
Windcheetah recumbent trike, with an unfaired one on the back of the van
for emergencies.
The twenty-four riders were split into two bunches of twelve; each dozen
into three shifts of four. The first bunch did London-Ayr via the south
coast of England, whereupon the second took over to go round the top of
Scotland and back down the east coast.
In order to be classified as an official round-Britain record by those
Guinness chappies, at least 3,675 miles has to be covered. Said unruly
mob did it in just over 10.5 days; modesty forbids me to name the rider
at the controls when they arrived back at Charing Cross
--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
May you have an accident shaped like an umbrella.