British cyclist Mark Beaumont broke the British record for the longest distance ridden on a Penny Farthing in one hour but missed out on the world record.
Mark Beaumont is a British long-distance cyclist, broadcaster, and author. He holds the record for cycling around the world, completing his 18,000-mile (29,000 km) route on 18 September 2017, having taken less than 79 days. On 18 February 2010 Beaumont completed a quest to cycle the Americas, cycling from Anchorage, Alaska, the US to Ushuaia in Southern Argentina, for a BBC Television series
In the summer of 2011 Beaumont joined a six-man team to row from Resolute Bay in the Nunavut Territory, Canada to the 1996 location of the North Magnetic Pole. Each of these expeditions was filmed for BBC One documentaries. On 1 February 2012 Beaumont and his team of rowers were rescued from the Atlantic Ocean when their rowing boat capsized during a crossing from Morocco to Barbados. On 21 May 2015, he rode from Cairo to Cape Town (10,000 km) and broke the world record for the fastest solo ride for the length of Africa by finishing in 42 days and 8 hours.
Aboard a 56-inch Unicycle-built solid-tyred high-wheeler Beaumont took to the 450 metre Herne Hill track on a wind-buffeted Friday afternoon, with pacing provided by Neil Laughton, Roger Davies, Tom Leefe, Will Lawrie, Guy Banham, David Fox-Pitt, and Richard Thoday. Together they rattled off circuit after circuit of the old velodrome where BW Atlee and FJ Osmond set their ordinary and safety Hour records in the 1890s. At the end of an hour’s riding Beaumont and his team-mates had covered 35.274 kilometres (21 miles, 1,616 yards): a new British record for the penny hour, 1,313 metres further than Attlee’s ride 127 years before but still 269 metres short of Rowe’s 132-year-old world record for the penny hour.
9 сен 2024
