Thursday, November 12, 2009

 Fastest cyclist to cross Southern Australia-Guido Kunze sets world record

  SYDNEY, Australia--German extreme cyclist Guido Kunze , 43, crossed the southern Australia by bicycle, covering 4,200 kilometres in seven days, 19 hours and 5 minutes and setting the new world record for the Fastest cyclist to cross southern Australia .

 Photo: The 43-year-old from Mühlhausen in the German state of Thuringia rode a Ghost carbon road bike equipped with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 electronic gruppo. ( enlarge photo)

   Kunze finished almost 16 hours faster than the former Guinness world record holder, Australia's Richard Vollebregt (Perth to Sydney in 8 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes).

Guido Kunze was supported and equipped for his record attempt by Paul Lange & Co, the official Shimano distributor in Germany.

   Shimano’s state-of-the-art electronic road racing component group DURA-ACE Di2, DURA-ACE wheels and pedals and Shimano Custom-Fit road racing shoes were provided to him and proved to be decisive factors for the record ride.

 Besides acting as an ambassador for the project “Polio Now - for a world without polio”, a worldwide charity project of the Rotary Clubs and the Bill Gates Foundation, Guido Kunze ’s new world record is also seen by Shimano as an ambitious endurance and performance test.

Related world records :
Fastest to cycle the Pan-American Highway-Scott Napier sets world record

Longest journey on mini-bikes-world record set by
Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson

Fastest cyclist to circle the globe-world record set by James Bowthorpe

Longest rickshaw ride-world record set by Simon Etkind and Lianna Hulbert

Thursday, November 12, 2009