Guinness Book of World Records

Today there was an attempt on campus to break the Guinness Book of World Records record for the bike parade with the highest number of participants. The previous record was 641 participants from a parade in the Netherlands. We decided to go along.

The record was indeed broken; there were 913 bicyclists lined up. It had to be two wheelers only, so there were plenty of other people there with attachments (a trailer or extra wheel with kids on the back) but those didn't count. The 913 were of two wheelers only.





Here's a shot I took over my shoulder of Douglas riding on the back of my bike.









Owen arriving at the finish line.









Here we all are at the end of the race. You can see by our numbers that Douglas and I (#63) arrived significantly sooner than Dan and Owen (#611 and 612).









Dan at the finish.