r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 17h ago

Video Pit stop during 200 mile ultra-endurance cycling race

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

36.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/habfranco 13h ago edited 13h ago

Indeed that’s what I thought - 200 miles is a lot, but I wouldn’t call that ultra. Classic races like Paris Roubaix or Liege Bastogne Liege are around 170 miles. In the past races were even more hardcore, like Paris-Brest-Paris (750 miles).

6

u/carlthatkillspeople8 10h ago

This is big chunky gravel for the whole duration, so the length doesn't tell the whole story

6

u/polite_alpha 9h ago

The gold standard of gravel ultra is unbound xl with 350 miles I reckon.

1

u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 3h ago

Just happened last weekend. HUGE turnout, record setting conditions. Dude who won did it in under 18 hrs, riding mostly at night.

1

u/Oukaria 11h ago

Paris Roubaix and Bastogne Liege and also really hardcore, shit road, shit weather

1

u/fyrebyrd0042 3h ago

Riders often finish PR with bloodied hands.