Record Breaking Recumbent in Museum

[Aushiker]

Canberra cyclist Peter Heal rode this Velokraft carbon fibre recumbent bike when he set two of the most contested solo distance cycling records in Australia.

In 2009, Heal pedalled this bike from Fremantle to Sydney in 11 days, 17 hours and eight minutes, breaking the record for a solo and unsupported crossing of continent by more than two days. The next year, Heal covered around 15,000 kilometres on the same machine, cycling alone around Australia in 48 days, 23 hours and 37 minutes, again lowering the previous record by approximately two days.

more at the National Museum of Australia.

Andrew

[Charlotte]

The link should be:

http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/peter_heal_recumbent_bicycle

And crikey - Fremantle to Sydney in 11 days 

[mrcharly-YHT]

Sydney has better beer. He was probably thirsty.

[Tigerrr]

lovely bike though. and clearly setup and fettled to perfection. That is the Audax bike I always wanted, but I was too mean to take the plunge plus scared of the year of fettling needed to get the VK2 to run right - so I heard.