Amanda Coker ends epic year of riding with more than 86,000 miles – and is now aiming for 100,000

papermaaker wrote:

Well done to Amanda BUT can't be compared with Tommy Godwin's world year record was achieved in a Calendar year and not on a modern bike ( carbon,aluminium or titanim) with 20 plus gears. Nevererless an amazing feat of both strong mental and physical achievement to ride that distance. We should not try to compare records or achievements from decades ago. Was Messi better than George Best? Best palyed on muddy pitches against some hard players and survived. Messi never plays on a pitch that isn't perfectly manicured. no comparison.

BUT well done again to Amanda.

 

You're a moron, of course his bike was modern, it was the most advanced bike money could buy and he had constant technical support from his sponsors, not to mention he also started the ride in a team of three, drafting the others.

Since Homo Sapiens (in body at least) hasn't evolved with any degree over the last few thousand years the comparison is utterly valid.

SingleSpeed wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Amazing amount of effort and well done to her but can we please stop comparing her efforts with Godwin's, they are two vastly differing attempts/records, please can we seperate the two.

 

You are absolutely correct, Amanda didn't have a two riders leading out for her for at least the first half of her attempt nor did she spend the most part of her ride riding up and down empty flat A-Roads.

 

Oh yes, and attitudes have thankfully evolved since the time of Godwin.

Attitudes, ATTITUDES, what fecking attitude are you referring to exactly chum?

I've described reasonable accurately (unlike your one sided bias which isn't) about how the two efforts do not compare.

When you say 'flat' do you mean in terms of elevation or flat in the sense of smoothness of the surface?

Did AC use a non UCI approved vehicle for a big part of her effort, yes or no? TG never had the opportunity to use a recumbent, as you know a 'bent is classified under HPV rules/records.

Did AC ride on a smooth surface, yes or no? Godwin had no 'smooth' roads, were they 'mettled', yes, some of them but many were not, certainly absolutely nothing compared to that afforded to AC, best you check out what the roads were like back then.

Did AC do her effort attaining a 1ft/mile in elevation, yes or no? That's her fortune but you stating TG rode on 'flat' roads is laughable by comparison.

Did AC ride on a closed circuit that was for most of it shielded by trees on both sides, yes or no? Godwin rode on ordinary roads and with traffic (you'd be surprised how much even back then)

Did AC have riders for her to draft for half the attempt, yes or no? TG did have helpers along the way and plenty of them but after dark for which he had to do many of his miles he was pretty much on his own and his lights restricted his speed.

if you want to talk about 'attitude' then maybe you need to look closer to home. some just want to have a fair playing field when records are being broken. you apparently not only want to ignore that but brazingly make shit up to suit your agenda. my main beef is using a recumbent and riding on a closed circuit, it's in the rules but for me it discounts the comparison straight from the off.

And please road CC change the article to reflect that the former 365 day mile record holder was in fact Tommy Godwin with 76,800 miles from May 16, 1939 to May 14, 1940 NOT Kurt Searvogel (who doesn't hold the calender year record either which is what the original record was)

Johnnystorm wrote:

Two Hundred And Thirty Seven Miles Every Day For A Year After Horrific Injury Awesome. Yeah but, no but, sepia pictures, jumpers for goal posts, steel is real. Get over yourselves, she was outdoors and on a bike. Job done. I'm thrilled my daughter can have her as a role model.

Hey - I'm all for using the latest tech, but riding a recumbent shifts those jumpers/goalposts too far...

In saying that I'll be sharing this for inspiration with someone I know who is recovering from a brain injury.