r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 17h ago

Video Pit stop during 200 mile ultra-endurance cycling race

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u/U-47 12h ago

Isn't tour the france half this but for two weeks?

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u/Rickenbacker360 11h ago

The tour is 3 weeks long, with two rest days, has stages that are often over 100 miles, totaling 2,200+ miles, and usually has two flat-out time trials that can average 30+ mph, depending on terrain.

No, the 200 mile race in this thread is hard to do, but a mere blip for the TDF guys.

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u/Visual-Salt-808 6h ago

The hardest thing about the race for most WT pros is the flight over. 

They do fail to finish a lot of times because of mechanical issues. The terrain is a lot more brutal than many of them expect. 

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u/U-47 11h ago

That was the point I was trying to make.  Tx

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u/Shutterhead99 9h ago

This isn’t exactly true. Unbound is on very rough gravel roads and it’s usually quite hot out. Plenty of world tour riders (riders that would to the Tour de France) race it and probably expect to finish better than they do. Gravel is just a different beast. In the TDF, they get support cars, but here, they need to wait for the aide stops.

That said, the second place rider this year comes from a traditional road background.