At 43 years old, Obree isn't going to make age an excuse not to go for the world record agin (look at Lance Armstrong 38).
Here's the new bike he made, check out the gear ratio (67x13).
In 1993 he killed the previous record held by Francesco Moser on a homemade bike made of laundry machine parts.
Obree wrote a book about his trials and dealing with depression, they eventually made it into a movie that came out in 2006.
Jonny Lee Miller plays Obree and he's pretty good in it. Miller has also been in cult classic movies like Trainspotting as Sick Boy and the computer nerd film Hackers, (i think he dated Angelina Jole for a hot minute).
The veteran O.G. actor Brian Cox (one of my favorite actors) plays his mentor/father figure in the movie.
Billy Boyd from Lord of the Rings plays his friend and trainer/manager.
This film get 3
out of 5 on the sickness factor
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