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A BICYCLE the length of three buses will cruise down Rundle Rd at the Tour Down Under tomorrow in an attempt to break the Guinness Book world record for the longest bike.
Twenty cyclists, including Channel 9 newsreader Brenton Ragless and former cyclist Patrick Jonker, will ride the locally-made 41.9m bicycle along Rundle Rd on Saturday at 10am.
The 2500kg bike will have to travel 100 metres unaided to break the current world record which stands at 35.79m.metres, set in the Netherlands in August, 2011.
The bike construction was a collaboration between Santos and UniSA and took nine months of planning.
Second year mechanical engineering students designed the bicycle as a class project. A manufacturing workshop in northern Adelaide, Weldrite, constructed most of the bike.
Santos spokesman, Damon Hunt, said the world record attempt was a way to bring something different to the Tour.
“For 2015 we wanted to try something new that was not only fun but added another element of interest for race spectators.”
The Big Bike will be on public display in Victoria Square as part of the Tour Village for the duration of the Santos Tour Down Under. It is planned to later be put on display at the University of South Australia at Mawson Lakes.
A BICYCLE the length of three buses will cruise down Rundle Rd at the Tour Down Under tomorrow in an attempt to break the Guinness Book world record for the longest bike.
Twenty cyclists, including Channel 9 newsreader Brenton Ragless and former cyclist Patrick Jonker, will ride the locally-made 41.9m bicycle along Rundle Rd on Saturday at 10am.
The 2500kg bike will have to travel 100 metres unaided to break the current world record which stands at 35.79m.metres, set in the Netherlands in August, 2011.
The bike construction was a collaboration between Santos and UniSA and took nine months of planning.
Second year mechanical engineering students designed the bicycle as a class project. A manufacturing workshop in northern Adelaide, Weldrite, constructed most of the bike.
Santos spokesman, Damon Hunt, said the world record attempt was a way to bring something different to the Tour.
“For 2015 we wanted to try something new that was not only fun but added another element of interest for race spectators.”
The Big Bike will be on public display in Victoria Square as part of the Tour Village for the duration of the Santos Tour Down Under. It is planned to later be put on display at the University of South Australia at Mawson Lakes.