{"id":1151,"date":"2021-08-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2021-08-27T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:19:55","slug":"les-records-de-deniveles-les-plus-dingues-en-velo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/en\/les-records-de-deniveles-les-plus-dingues-en-velo\/","title":{"rendered":"The craziest elevation gain records by bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climbing the equivalent of two times Everest in 24 hours, accumulating 305,000 m of vertical drop in 200 days... In road cycling and mountain biking, vertical drop records have their fans. And in recent months, new references have been entered in the Guinness Book.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 hours and 21,168 meters of positive elevation gain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last summer, Frenchman Nicolas Chatelet broke the world record for the most positive ascent in 24 hours on a road bike. Setting off at 5:45 a.m. for a rather busy day, the cyclist chose the Plateau de Beille in the Ari\u00e8ge region of France to carry out his challenge. His goal: to beat Collin Patterson's world record of 21,168 meters of D+. A math teacher and member of the Orl\u00e9ans Loiret Cyclisme club, Nicolas Chatelet finally racked up 20,919 meters of positive vertical drop after 24 hours in the saddle and 509.3 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"After a fast start, there were some dreadful moments, then a change of strategy due to the weather and an effort that was far too long to continue on the pace of the record, which had been set over a 750m bump,\" he explained after his feat. \"For my part, the first 11,000 were done on a 12.5 km bump and the next 10,000 on a 2 km bump. This is clearly the challenge that caused me the most suffering.\"<\/p>\n\n\n