Fancy a big bike ride in the New Forest? Strava user David Taylor has set a new mark with a 301km, 12-hour challenge that takes in a large swathe of the forest and the countryside to the North of Poole and Bournemouth.
The big bike segment was part of Taylor's Tommy Godwin Challenge ride on September 20. The idea is to cover in a day 1/365th of Tommy Godwin's 1939 record of 75,065 miles in a year. That's just under 206 miles; Taylor's 341.5km ride is 212 mile, and included over 2.000m of climbing.
He took 13:02:03 for the full 341km, and 11:26:31 for the 301km segment he's drawn up as a challenge.
Taylor says he had to amend the route as he went along, as a result of a getting a bit navigationally challenged on the way. But as you can see, his route still looks like it's supposed to:
22 thoughts on “New Strava target for New Forest – as cyclist creates massive ‘bicycle’ segment”
Well done sir! That’s a good
Well done sir! That’s a good effort, and while I can manage that average speed for 50-60 miles, doing it for 200+ is quite some effort. I hope he had company.
I tell you what though, he didn’t do that with a Garmin 200 – when the routes cross over it gives you no clue as to which line is supposed to be followed next, so it certainly wouldn’t look like that if I tried it!
Thats gonna upsets the New
Thats gonna upsets the New Forest NIMBY’s, no end!!!!!
aweome!!
aweome!! =D>
Chapeau!
Chapeau!
He might want to get those
He might want to get those wheels trued.
Awesome – I’m not inspired to
Awesome – I’m not inspired to ride 300km yet but I am inspired to get busy planning my own local “picture route”!
chokofingrz wrote:Awesome –
Like this, for instance?
zanf wrote:chokofingrz
Quite, I mean, this is all very impressive but drawing a cock with Strava is just about the coolest thing anyone can do 😀
zanf wrote:chokofingrz
Awesome! I’m a forty-four year old man, but I still find a comedy cock drawing hilarious. 🙂
Excellent!
Excellent!
Looks like a perfect 300km
Looks like a perfect 300km Audax or better still how about Road.cc sportive…
Fredtastic, just what you
Fredtastic, just what you want when you are riding somewhere picturesque and peaceful… your head buried froome style in your gps screen while racing imaginary friends. =D>
I wonder if it was deliberate
I wonder if it was deliberate that the “saddle” is just beneath the Sandy Balls resort on the map?!
Chapeau to him though, I think he’s going to have that segment to himself for quite some time!
mmm this has me thinking
mmm this has me thinking about previous rides, what have i drawn?
http://www.strava.com/activities/165797257
A butterfly maybe?
But did he get the KOM?
But did he get the KOM?
backflipbedlem wrote:But did
Haha, imagine doing that ride, uploading it and finding that someone had already done it, and faster than you!
Brilliant bit of artwork! Is
Brilliant bit of artwork! Is anyone clever enough to change the image so that the bicycle is perfect and the map is distorted?
Men are weird!
Men are weird!
beautiful – the modern
beautiful – the modern equivalent of those white horses carved into chalk hillsides.
I get it, do a very long
I get it, do a very long route that no one else will ever follow, then make it public so you can get the KOM, but its okay because you say it is ‘Art.’ Very convenient, I know your game, I am watching you mister. I am going to take some very ‘artistic’ routes home, then I will have all of the Kings of the Mountainses, all to my own, ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I honestly have not laughed
I honestly have not laughed so much about cycling in a very long time, it is a shame that the cock is not in the new forest?
Chapeau Indeed Mr David
Chapeau Indeed Mr David Taylor