I found this on youtube, quite interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajqrrTtCvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajqrrTtCvg

Fascinating. I have great respect for the achievement, but honestly, 20 hours per day on a bike at 30 kph and more doesn't sound healthy to me. If I ever get the chance to cycle across the USA, I would want to have a chance to see the sights and sounds, take in the landscape and talk to people. One of the advantages of the reduced travel speed of a bicycle -as opposed to a car- is that one gets a better impression of the things that pass by. Well, I guess, I don't have the race mindset.

Cheers, CM-Expat

I think it said at the beginning that two people had died during the race, hardly surprising. The competitor looks dazed and confused towards the end.

Fascinating. I have great respect for the achievement, but honestly, 20 hours per day on a bike at 30 kph and more doesn't sound healthy to me. If I ever get the chance to cycle across the USA, I would want to have a chance to see the sights and sounds, take in the landscape and talk to people. One of the advantages of the reduced travel speed of a bicycle -as opposed to a car- is that one gets a better impression of the things that pass by. Well, I guess, I don't have the race mindset.

Cheers, CM-Expat

It was a race. Some people like racing, some people like touring.

I'm with you - I think that sort of racing is lunacy, but he didn't seem like a loony.

SC

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20924403zBshk7AE?h1=A+sunday+in+hell

This won many awards. Great to watch.

These are also good [sorry trailers only] of the north south divide race-

My favourite is 'where the trail ends ' -

And

Starring a certain Bianchi at one point