Price: £3,816
Frame: steel
Gears: FSA
Brakes: Avid disc
If you thought tricycles sounded uncool, how about recumbent trikes? A trend dead-end for sure. But for the past 20 years Chris Parker and Neil Selwood have been designing and building the fastest and lightest RTs from their HQ in Cornwall. Their firm, ICE, has now sold more than 12,000 models around the world. Their trikes have a ‘tadpole’ configuration (two steering front wheels and one driving rear wheel), are stable, comfortable and very aerodynamic (trikes have been clocked at more than 80mph). ICE offers six different models, including electric and off-road. This speedster is the VTX. It’ll appeal to anyone interested in high performance, but also to cyclists with balance issues. Not so uncool after all (icetrikes.co).
Round the world in 78 days
Mark Beaumont broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation by bicycle earlier this week, finishing in a remarkable 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes. He uploaded every single pedal stroke of his journey on Strava, the social network for athletes. This gave members of the community the opportunity to follow his rides in detail, and understand just what a physical feat his new record is. Above is a Heatmap which visualises his journey, and shows the amount of Kudos (the Strava equivalent of a “like”) sent to Mark, a whopping 217,000! If you want to look at Mark’s Strava profile click on this link: strava.com/athletes/8288853. Truly an epic adventure.
Email Martin at martin.love@observer.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @MartinLove166
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