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>On June 1, British cyclist and defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome made history by riding his bike from Britain to France, cycling the length of the Channel Tunnel in 55 minutes. >Media variously reported the feat as “groundbreaking”, “incredible” and “something no one else has ever achieved.” >Wally Michalski of Calgary begs to differ. >He and his friend, Mike Turner, a Regina native, beat Froome to the tunnel’s French terminal at Coquelles by more than 20 years. And they have the grainy photos to prove it. >During one Sunday in October 1993, Wally Michalski and Mike Turner, working as contractors on the British side, used a pair of the Saracen bicycles to cycle the 100-kilometre (62 mi) round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again. The pair took around five hours to complete the journey, while wearing full overalls and needing to carry respirators.
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>>1764832 >holding a bicycle somewhere in the chunnel means you rode it and in the time you said great detective work
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>>1764835 they have photos from both entrances
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>>1764835 >why yes I do take a photo of each tunnel entrance with my bicycle but I carried it by train inbetween just in case someone actually cycles the length of the tunnel 20 years later and I can make up a bullshit story about how I did it first This is much like the moon landing in that faking it would've been more work than simply going there.
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>>1764836 >>1764856 glad they're holding up that days newspaper and untamperable atomic clocks to make these claims so your posts don't look dumb
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based 90s mtb bros, i fucking love /n/, it could so easily have gone the way of the modern trash bike
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Chris Froome took 55minutes, that is something nobody has ever achieved.
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>>1764857 >nooooo only the pros are allowed to achieve nice things aaaahhh I'm frooming Anonymous
>no one remembered them doing this
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>>1764832 Ok I believe you. But any old fat man could ride that in less time
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>>1764857 The point is that the tour de rice faggot wasn't the first you dumb cunt.
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>>1764874 wtf did the plane land on? Sand?
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Why does this make people seethe so much?
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>>1766029 a half finished runway next to a 16m grader
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>>1764832 >journalists doing absolutely 0 research before writing articles Many such cases!
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>>1764832 That's pretty cool.
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How is riding a bike 100 km an achievement?
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>>1766039 because it's not true. they didn't do the ride. no one saw them. they have no proof at all. this is like the retards in the other thread thinking rulers are infallible and don't need calibrating even in the face of videos of inaccurate ones
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>>1766212 >things are only true if the lugenpresse reports on them and there's a peer reviewed study Anonymous
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>>1764872 >froome took 55 >wally and mike took 5 lmao at skele and his double digit
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>>1766572 >stuff like this happens on a job site without anyone knowing or talking about it hello neet
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>>1766206 It will feel like quite an achievement for me if I ever manage it.
