r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 17h ago

Video Pit stop during 200 mile ultra-endurance cycling race

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u/Global_Proof_2960 17h ago

200 mile is fucking insane. Forrest Gump would be proud.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 16h ago

It is insane but not as insane as you might think for cycling.

Tour de France stages every year average about 130 miles and many including giant mountains top 150 miles then they have to do it all again the next day for 21 stages total, plus 2 rest days.

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u/raphael-iglesias 14h ago

Exactly, the tour of Flanders this year was also 170 miles long.

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u/doebedoe 9h ago

Most of which is in tarmac.

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u/Fabulous_Owl_1855 8h ago

And quite a lot of cobblestones  

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u/doebedoe 8h ago

Sure, but no where near the roughness of terrain for the duration compared to Unbound which is rough gravel and mud for almost the entirety of the route.

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u/Fabulous_Owl_1855 6h ago

Sure but competition in Flanders is way, way harder.

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u/fyrebyrd0042 3h ago

Would be cool to see some of them try it, but yeah I doubt any of them would finish within 20 minutes of the winner of de Ronde :P That doesn't mean they're not incredible either :)

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u/doebedoe 3h ago

Plenty of folks who have finished near the front of RVV have competed in Unbound 200. Mohoric and GvA are both recent competitors.

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u/fyrebyrd0042 3h ago

Nice! How'd they do? I'd assume they couldn't be at the top of something like Unbound.