Amanda Coker ends epic year of riding with more than 86,000 miles – and is now aiming for 100,000

SingleSpeed wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Amazing amount of effort and well done to her but can we please stop comparing her efforts with Godwin's, they are two vastly differing attempts/records, please can we seperate the two.

 

You are absolutely correct, Amanda didn't have a two riders leading out for her for at least the first half of her attempt nor did she spend the most part of her ride riding up and down empty flat A-Roads.

 

Oh yes, and attitudes have thankfully evolved since the time of Godwin.

Attitudes, ATTITUDES, what fecking attitude are you referring to exactly chum?

I've described reasonable accurately (unlike your one sided bias which isn't) about how the two efforts do not compare.

When you say 'flat' do you mean in terms of elevation or flat in the sense of smoothness of the surface?

Did AC use a non UCI approved vehicle for a big part of her effort, yes or no? TG never had the opportunity to use a recumbent, as you know a 'bent is classified under HPV rules/records.

Did AC ride on a smooth surface, yes or no? Godwin had no 'smooth' roads, were they 'mettled', yes, some of them but many were not, certainly absolutely nothing compared to that afforded to AC, best you check out what the roads were like back then.

Did AC do her effort attaining a 1ft/mile in elevation, yes or no? That's her fortune but you stating TG rode on 'flat' roads is laughable by comparison.

Did AC ride on a closed circuit that was for most of it shielded by trees on both sides, yes or no? Godwin rode on ordinary roads and with traffic (you'd be surprised how much even back then)

Did AC have riders for her to draft for half the attempt, yes or no? TG did have helpers along the way and plenty of them but after dark for which he had to do many of his miles he was pretty much on his own and his lights restricted his speed.

if you want to talk about 'attitude' then maybe you need to look closer to home. some just want to have a fair playing field when records are being broken. you apparently not only want to ignore that but brazingly make shit up to suit your agenda. my main beef is using a recumbent and riding on a closed circuit, it's in the rules but for me it discounts the comparison straight from the off.

And please road CC change the article to reflect that the former 365 day mile record holder was in fact Tommy Godwin with 76,800 miles from May 16, 1939 to May 14, 1940 NOT Kurt Searvogel (who doesn't hold the calender year record either which is what the original record was)

Simon_MacMichael wrote:

[No we wouldn't, and I doubt any other media outlet would.

The words were chosen deliberately to emphasise her achievement.

Sorry if you think that makes us sound sexist.

Despite the whingeing of the permanently offended there is nothing even remotely sexist about reporting  the considerable physical achievement of a member of the weaker sex.

If, perhaps, she had knocked out Tyson Fury in a world championship bout, would it still be unpardonable to mention her gender?

mike the bike wrote:

Despite the whingeing of the permanently offended there is nothing even remotely sexist about reporting  the considerable physical achievement of a member of the weaker sex.

If, perhaps, she had knocked out Tyson Fury in a world championship bout, would it still be unpardonable to mention her gender?

Haha, I'm rarely offended
Fairer sex may be OK, but "weaker sex", that will offend some, won't it? If you don't mind offending people with poorly chosen words that's fine. I'm sure we all do it, hopefully by accident most of the time.

Mentioning her sex is just fact nothing wrong with that, but going out of the way to highlight it just seems like there is a sexist agenda behind it, could just be how I read it though.
If someone said I'm quite good on a bike for a short-arse, I'd take that as implying I couldn't be good because being short is some sort of disability. Like being female is some sort of barrier to riding a bike further than anyone has ever been recorded before.

Simon_MacMichael wrote:

ChrisB200SX wrote:

I don't want to seem all leftie but could we stop this please?
"greatest distance ever ridden in a year by any cyclist, male or female,"

It makes you sound sexist, this would have sufficed, simpler and quicker to read:
"greatest distance ever ridden in a year by a cyclist"

Would you use the former if it was a bloke?

No we wouldn't, and I doubt any other media outlet would.

The words were chosen deliberately to emphasise her achievement.

Sorry if you think that makes us sound sexist.

Fair enough, I appreciate what you were trying achieve, just sounds a bit like "that's quite good... even though she's a girl" if you know what I mean? Some of the facts preclude the others, maybe it just annoys me that it's stating the same thing twice, unnecessarily.
Maybe a better way to emphasis would be to simply state how much she had eclipsed the woman's record by?