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The most amazing ride video I've ever seen...
Jose Lozano (filmer of the 2008 Halloween Critical Mass video) just sent me a new video that, in my opinion, tops anything I've seen from Lucas Brunelle or any of the other maniac daredevils (though I love that stuff in its' own right) and their franticly shot videos. This new one is a time-lapse film of a bunch of UT student cyclists riding in the 5th annual Texas 4000, where the participants ride the ~4500 miles from Austin, TX to Anchorage, AK over the period of 70 days in an effort to raise awareness (and donations) for cancer research. Just watch this, it's incredible:
That makes me want to gear up and go on a tour. The distances human legs can carry us astound me sometimes. This was the fifth time this ride has been done by the UT cycling community, who always manage to impress me every time I come in contact with them. So far in the five years they've been operating, this ride has raised around 1.2 million dollars for cancer research. Great video, and hell of an accomplishment Jose!
4k! that sounds awesome! lets do it on tall bikes!
t4k represent! I did that in '07 and it was incredible. And thus began my obsessive love affair with those great two-wheeled, human-powered machines we call bikes.
I grew up in Anchorage, AK and we drove down here when I was 15. It's one hell of a trip in a RV ... doing it on a bike would make it that much more awesome. (Being a 15 year old stuck in a RV for months with mom, dad and sis, with four cats = pretty much the opposite of awesome.)
The Alcan highway is one of the crappiest and longest roads ever seen -- and having grown up in Alaska, I've seen some pretty crappy ones! I imagine that the ideal bike for that road would be a cyclocross bike ...
But perhaps things have improved since then. Back then, it wasn't even all paved ... Wikipedia says it's all paved now. So that's good ...
That would be awesome to ride a bike back. Of course, I imagine my legs would fall off after the first few days, and by the time I'd got back the house would have been foreclosed and the wife would have left me, so perhaps I'd better not.