Chris Froome has become the first person to ride a bike through the Channel Tunnel from England to France.
Ironically, the video of Froome taking on the tunnel was released on the same day as passengers had to be evacuated from the tunnel – and in to the service tunnel Froome used for his ride – because of a power failure on a train at 06:20am this morning. Disruption is expected all day, luckily the riders are flying back, but some of the Tour's support vehicles may have a problem getting back across the Channel.
Riding his Pinarello time trial bike, Froome completed the 50km crossing in about 55 minutes, a mark that someone determined to get into the Guiness Book of Records will no doubt want to beat.
Froome’s ride actually took place on June 1, but with the Tour de France crossing from England to France this evening after stage 3 finishes in London, Team Sky have released a video of the ride today, as you do.
23 thoughts on “Video: Chris Froome v the Channel Tunnel”
No transfer needed tonight at
No transfer needed tonight at the tour de France!
Is it just me that thinks
Is it just me that thinks this must have been a mind numbingly boring ride?
pirnie wrote:Is it just me
No it’s not just you. (|:
Is it just me that thinks
Is it just me that thinks this must have been a mind numbingly boring ride?
That would be very hypnotic,
That would be very hypnotic, the ped tunnel under the Tyne is bad enough…
mrchrispy wrote:That would be
Was gonna make a comment about Sky under the Tyne (rather than fog on it), but beaten to a mention of the tunnel already.
mrchrispy wrote:That would be
I bet it doesn’t stink of p*** like the ped tunnel under the tyne :))
stumps wrote:mrchrispy
Pedestrian Tunnel?
You’re doing it wrong:
http://vimeo.com/79725863
http://velocitystreetracing.com/
https://www.facebook.com/VelocityStreetRacing/photos_stream
Not only must that have been
Not only must that have been a v boring ride but also quite sick inducing – with a lack of clear features to focus on, no horizon and, as mentioned, the hypnotic lights. Apart from the stat, I am not sure that there will be a stream of people wishing to do this. (That said, it might have been a good start to the Wiggle French Revolution I did a couple of weeks ago!)
Jeez, he wasn’t quicker than
Jeez, he wasn’t quicker than the train? He’ll never win the TdF with form like that.
You seriously expect us to
You seriously expect us to believe no Eurotunnel staffer has ever done this before?
i so want to do this now!
i so want to do this now!
Apparently the eurotunnel
Apparently the eurotunnel closed this morning. Reports that the driver swerved and derailed to avoid a cyclist in a black skinsuit have not been confirmed. 😉
Apparently the eurotunnel
Apparently the eurotunnel closed this morning. Reports that the driver swerved and derailed to avoid a cyclist in a black skinsuit have not been confirmed. 😉
Wasn’t Wiggo always faster
Wasn’t Wiggo always faster doing time trials? Why would you use Froome to do this except to get his profile higher for the TdF?
Sooner Wiggo he finds another team that values him the better methinks.
Luminosity wrote:Wasn’t Wiggo
Well as mentioned above the ride looks mind numbingly boring, which suits Froome as he is mind numbingly boring himself.
You could end up with tunnel
You could end up with tunnel vision doing this.
If he’d done it France to Britain there would have been an illegal clinging to his bottom bracket :S .
Apparently the Daily Mail and
Apparently the Daily Mail and Express are shitting pork pies over the new danger of wave upon wave of illegal immigrants riding £8,000 time trial bikes down the tunnel to flood our shores. They have taken drastic action and employed the newly formed but highly effective New Forest Resident Anti Bike Association as guards which as we know are full of loads of little pricks.
Genuinely thought for a
Genuinely thought for a moment that he’d draft the train… Aaaaand then remembered that’s stupid and got back in my box of despair…
Didn’t MBUK ride through the
Didn’t MBUK ride through the Channel Tunnel shortly after it opened? Or possibly during construction? There was definitely a feature along those lines. Maybe they didn’t go all the way across…
This is interesting – couldnt
This is interesting – couldnt quite beleive he actually did it….
It would be a novel thing to
It would be a novel thing to do as part of a TDF stage.
If I got the chance I’d be up for it boring and hypnotic or not.. it would be a once in a life time experience.
Car tunnels/pedestrian
Car tunnels/pedestrian tunnels? You’re doing it wrong. 5km-long disused rail tunnels are the way forward. Ideally with a pint at either end.