Mt Ventoux on a Boris bike
I’ve heard a few people talk about how hard riding up Mt Ventoux is, having ridden them after training and using a nice light road bike. I’ve also ridden a Boris bike a few times in London and the worst thing about them is that they are so damn heavy. So much so that when you lean the bike against the inside of your thigh at the lights it almost knocks you off.
He’s not the first to have tried to do silly things on a Boris bike of course. Leo’s Dunwich Dynamo trip and the tricks thrown down at Stockwell skate park come to mind but this seems a little tougher.
The challenge is to hire a bike, get to France, ride up Mt Ventoux, drive back and check the bike into the docking station all within 24 hours, avoiding the £150 fine. Incredible and moving stuff and I have an enormous amount of respect for the guy for doing it, worth watching all the way to the end.