World Record Bike Ride - at Asheville LAAFF or LAFF or LAAF

Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival - Michael Mooney attempts to break the Guinness Book World record for the tallest bike!

The tall bike world record holder, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records, is Terry Goertzen, who rode an 18-foot, 2.5-inch bike 300 meters in Winnipeg, Canada, on June 26, 2004. The record he broke was 16 feet, so Mooney decided that instead of trying for 20 feet, a mark that could be bested quickly, he'd try for a record that will ride for a while.

To establish the Guinness record, his ride must be witnessed by two people. Mooney asked Mayor Terry Bellamy and Clint Spiegel, owner of Industry Nine Componentry, on Leicester Highway, which makes bicycle parts.

Mooney will ride the bike in a 70-foot circle. To establish the record, he's got to ride 100 meters. "I'll probably ride more than that, because you don't always get to ride a 44-foot-tall bicycle," he said. "I'm looking forward to sitting on that bicycle on Lexington and looking down on I-240."

Mooney expects to be nervous, he said. Lots of things in life are scary, but that shouldn't keep you from doing them, he said. Just make sure you can control what you can — like safety — and practice before you jump in. Climbing a 44-foot bike and piloting it around while hundreds of people watch is good practice for taking on heavier physical and emotional tasks in life, like starting a business and being a good father, Mooney believes. [Tall bike text quoted from Paul Clark of the Citizen Times]

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• bike
• ride
• guiness
• world
• record
• asheville
• LAAF

[JohnnyPayphone]

Dude should learn how to build a tallbike before he tries to beat any records.

[banjohustla]

dude needs a better rigging system to fall into