unicus said:Recently I was looking through my 1990 copy of The Guinness Book of
Records when something looked odd. I also have (well my sons do) the
1999 and 2001 editions so I looked in them ‘cause something was bugging
me. I’ll reproduce the questionable entries here:Notice the discrepancies with the distances and dates? I knew there was
something wrong, anyone know the truth?The 1990 ‘Unicycles – Endurance’ entry continued with this:
There is also a picture. Does anyone know them? Are they still riding?
And finally a 1990 entry with a name you may know.
Gary
Mike Day is actually not from Manchester, he is from somewhere down
south, Ware in Hertfordshire, I believe. He did live in Manc for a
while.
Mike appeared on the young persons' BBC television programme Blue Peter
as a result of his record breaking unicycling attempt. Later he
appeared on BBC's Tomorrow's World programme doing some juggling, I
believe.
Mike does a lot of juggling these days. I don't think he unicycles very
much, but he does stay in shape, and has muttered darkly about breaking
the record for unicycling backwards.
And there you have it.
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