Swimming the English Channel = Cycling ?????

Mixk40 · 2012-09-10T14:47:10+01:00

:/ A good friend of mine has just completed swimming the English channel in 15 hours and this got me thinking ? what would be the equivalent “event ” for a cyclists ? Lands’ end to John o Grout’s (or the other way) ?, La Marmotte ? Mt Blanc ? London – Paris ? But all of these have 10,000’s of people completing them every year were as the channel has only just got over a 1000 in the last 80 years !! So thoughts and suggestions ? My current thinking is that it might be something to aim for in 2014 !

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September 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm #16792

Mixk40

:/ A good friend of mine has just completed swimming the English channel in 15 hours and this got me thinking ? what would be the equivalent “event ” for a cyclists ?
Lands’ end to John o Grout’s (or the other way) ?, La Marmotte ? Mt Blanc ? London – Paris ?
But all of these have 10,000’s of people completing them every year were as the channel has only just got over a 1000 in the last 80 years !!

So thoughts and suggestions ? My current thinking is that it might be something to aim for in 2014 !
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September 10, 2012 at 4:31 pm #699765
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Mixk40

Thanks the PBP looks
Thanks the PBP looks interesting ! The tunnel ? Not sure even I am that crazy ( or stupid !) to have a go !

September 10, 2012 at 4:15 pm #699763
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Raleigh

Cycle all the 100 best
Cycle all the 100 best British climbs in a week.

Flanders/Roubaix pro rides.

Lands end to John o’Groats and back again in 2 weeks.

12/24 hour TTs are a dying spectacle.

Food for thought.

September 10, 2012 at 3:57 pm #699761
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bazzargh

The Paris-Brest-Paris brevet?
The Paris-Brest-Paris brevet? Only held once every 4 years, limited to 385 from the UK now, to *get* there you have to have ridden a 200 km, 300 km, 400 km and 600 km ride that year, and the ride itself is 1200km in under 90 hours? (15-30% don’t make it). It’s a challenge.

Or even… do it on a brompton. It’s been done, but I think only a handful have made it under the limit.

September 10, 2012 at 3:23 pm #699759
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Gkam84

What about climbing to road
What about climbing to road to the Salang Tunnel and then cycling through it? Thats gotta be a rare one? 😉
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