Cycling Weekly | 30th November 2017
ULTIMATE ENDURANCE MASTERCLASS
On day nine of his attempt to ride around the world in eighty days, Mark
Beaumont found himself on the floor. A face-off between his front wheel and a pothole — one of Russia’s liberal stippling — had rendered him a battered heap on the deck. Nursing a cracked tooth and a sharp pain in his left elbow — later diagnosed as a fracture — Beaumont dusted himself off, clambered back aboard his custom-built Koga, and continued on his unremitting tack across the globe. Beaumont went on to ride around in world in just seventy eight days, covering two hundred and forty miles a day. What did he discover about himself, and about the limits of human endurance, along the way? Steve Shrubsall finds out.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Cycling Weekly 30th November 2017.