Six hours, forty minutes, and fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Ronan Mc Laughlin, a full time tech writer here at CyclingTips, a father and a husband, to ride the height of Mount Everest. He smashed the world record by nearly 20 minutes and lopped some 25 minutes off his own previous record.
How did he do it?
One of the benefits of having a CT staffer hit out at world records is that we get a bit of extra heads up. So we sent our own Phil Golston to Mamore Gap with camera to capture the effort, from bike prep to mid-descent tire explosions to an emotional finish. Catch it all in the film above.
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I would happily watch that at a mountain movie festival or bike night movie night
A nice change to watching not very good “content “ videos on instagram. (Not their fault I am watching their insta)
I pleage $5 to ronan personally for Ronan to try and hit 6hrs 30min
And $5 for the building of a fully custom Lotus-Hope style everesting bike or the best bike possible
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Ineos may even want to come onboard like the sub 2hr marathon . Would even cost less than 45min of prada cup racing ( aprox £10 000 000)
Not really, headwind descending just means less use of brakes, headwind climbing is game over?
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