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WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES!
Ivan Rolim in AUDAX 600 PARANA BRAZIL - 2010
608km estimated - "CURITIBA-MATINHOS-GARUVA-CURITIBA-PONTA GROSSA-CURITIBA
Ivan Rolim will try 600km in 24h
Rainy day with cold temperature
Ivan will trespass SANTA CATARINA state!
Audax where the first GIRL (Gisele) will try to finish!
PART ONE: Preparations, pizza, etc
"Tomorrow (wednesday) I will be travelling to Curitiba"
"Forecast: 50°F - second polar mass..."
Travelling - 9 hours total (BUS)
Cafezal MOUNTAIN: worst area (3am): tons of trucks (dangerous road)
Parana STATE
Accident in Regis Bittencourt Motorway
"I asked the BUS driver to give my bike to ride to Curitiba (120km)"
Saboia's Home: Audax night
Watching 'BIG *** THEORY"
"What we have here? PIZZA!"
"In the 600km ride, I will 'DRINK' this pizza and...."
"Now, I will present ..... my friends"
"I will really ride 600km..I will go to Santa Catarina and after, Ponta Grossa"
"And....we wait for a strong temperature (COLD)..."
"I am more than 30km/h (20mph), riding down IGUAÇU avenue..."
"EMERGENCY before arriving to VIKING (mark 0): WRECKED CRANKSET"
"Crankset HOLE is screwed up, no nail/screw can be replaced"
"Riding with just one pedal to Saboia's home - LESS THAN 1h to AUDAX"
"Its almost 22:30, in the ARGENTINA avenue, Saboia will borrow me a bike!!"
SABOIA SAYS: "Dont worry with the crankset. You need a bike? MY BIKE!"
"God bless me... no alternatives..."
"Arriving at VIKING association - now its real"
"No more way to give up now"
"Well....lemme see how to reset it..."
"Whops! Lemme talk to ROBERTO COELHO!"
"Now everybody is here (I went yesterday here)"
Roberto: "Today the people has come! (laughts)"
Person: "People said you were here alone yesterday"
"MARVELOUS.....do a 600km audax with a MTB that rode 6000km and..."
"Wow, I arrived late!"
"Please, lets you guys RIDE with us!"
Roberto: "Curitiba-Paranaguá...you will ride down a mountain..."
Roberto: "BE CAREFUL! Obstacles, lane out of order, SLIPPERY and dark road"
"...at Km 31 of mountain motorway distance"
"Clapping to GISELE, because it would be the first woman..."
"Ten minutes to 'take off!' "
"Now I want to see.... the adrenaline!"
"Good Luck to Everybody..."
"Audax 600 has started"
"I will repeat what I've do (628km in 25h) in 28 april 2009"
"Now, on the motorway! Cyclists before me (on speeds)"...
"Its RAINING...Porto Alegre access ahead..."
"I will still pass some signs....Now Km 30..."
"5% of Audax dooooone!"
"Now at the FEDERAL POLICE MOTORWAY"
"I´m relating here at the STRAIGH LANE to Paranagua (before down hill)"
"Too many RESISTANT WINDS toward me...I´m at 19km/h"
"At Km 46, 13km/h, my friends passed me..."
"km 52, DOWNHILL ahead..."- (IVAN IS NOT WAITING FOR THE WORST)"
"First Accident: a STEP of asphalt between lane 1 and 2 (CENTER)"
"I´m ok, first accident, injured kees :/, read wheels askew"
HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED
SECOND ACCIDENT
LARGE DARK object (pile of wood? Car radiator?)
READ WHEEL DAMAGED, had to remove BRAKES
"Riding at 15km/h during DOWNHILL, only FRONT BRAKES"
900 LUMENS TORCH DOESNT WORK, using KNOG BULLFROG 15 lumens
"I´m with my friend RONILDO. The ONLY person that helped me in the hill"
(IVAN IS SO UPSET) - "I have to reach PC1 - control area - FAST! Police area now!"
"We are SO NEAR of PC1"
"4:25 am"
"Paranagua 8km - We need to go to MATINHOS via PR507"
"Ronildo is here, thank you very much..er...."
"Its not possible to do 600km in 24h"
"First control post"
"10 to 20 minutes of REST and bandage and wheel fix"
"ROBERTO COELHO helping me with cotton bandage"
"FIXING injury"
"Bike upside-down: wheels BETTER but no brakes"
"The SAGA is not finished! I will ride UNTIL I..."
"The rear tyre is punctured now..."
"I´m riding STRAIGHT UP"
"In this road to Matinhos, NO BUILDING, only FOREST"
"You can see the familiar noise of punctured tyre"...
"I seat because I don't stand 20km riding straight up..."
"I´m in the FEDERAL POLICE, and in the PEREIRA Cologne"
"The sun is RISING!"
"Roberto (Paulo as well) get here by car, I talked with them and continued"
"He helped me to TAKE AWAY the TYRE and INNER TYRE (TUBE)"
"As we can know (and see)... I´M RIDING IN THE RIM"
"Do you think I will say....."
"Mom!! Ahhhh...it was RAINING!!"
"Mom!! I have lost my tyre!!"
"Mom!! No Gas Station, No People!!"
"NOOOOOOO!"
"(15km after) Here, I will take RIGHT, to the FERRY BOAT to Guaratuba"
"Hmmm...going UP this elevation ahead riding in the RIM"
"Well, I missed SOME roads, but I'm correct here"
"In the route, some streets in city center was to be riden"
"No names in the streets.....but I got it"
"Ferry Boat to Guaratuba (15min)"
"8:22 am (in cyclocomputer), CORRECT is 7:22"
"Dont stay OUT of your vehicles during trespass"
"Lets ride 5km more in the RIM!"
(AFTER 'CLIMBING') "Ok, everything that goes up.....goes down"
"The problem is..... NO BRAKES!"
"THANKS GOD!! A bike shop!"
"Good morning.....some services here"
"One new RIM, two tyres, two inner tires (remember, bike went 6000km before)"
"My friend....now the BEER will takes me... 1h 30min in the shop....yellow large tires..."
"Lets GO GO GO! (50km of PC2)"
"At least NOW I´m in SANTA CATARINA!"
(Winds going AGAINST IVAN again... 18km/h)
(WE HAVE COLD WATTERED SUGAR CANES) - "Ok, A QUICK step here!"
"11:40am, GARUVA-SC, 150km ride (total here)"
"Now these large tyres are with me! Stronger grips, no slippery areas, no small rocks!"
"Wow!! Joinville area! Km 180!"
"Here, a HOPE to finish 600km okay...I reached PC2 (km 200) IN TIME!"
"HEY, you all were waiting for me!!!"
"I must go UP the hill STILL in the daylight" (WIND STRENGTENS UP, 2.0 tyre DONT help)
"Going back to PARANA (SC-PR frontier) - ALL IS WET (raining again and again)"
"QUACK QUACK QUACK...."
"Actual average: just 17km/h total. Guaratuba (FERRY: 13km)"
"20km/h average (just counting up RIDING time)"
(PLAYING with the cows)
"I will not miss the seashore!"
"Here, a PROTOCOL is broken! ;)"
"Now, the 'SIGNALERO...' (traffic light). Local people said that I must turn left..."
"More 'going UP'.. No way to avoid this area to get the FERRY"
"RAINING......AGAIN...."
"Good afternoon... when this ferry will.... 8 minutes?? Damn..."
"Actual forecast: STRONGER RAIN during the night in the hill back to Curitiba"
"I will reach MATINHOS, get the avenue to ATLANTICA avenue, go to PRAIA DEL LESTE..."
(SUNSET) - "Okay, Km 270, PRAIA DE LESTE"
(DARKNESS, SECOND FLASHLIGHT WITH NO LIGHT! DIMMISH GLASSES!)
"Well....FOR PRUDENCY here, I gave up in PC3 (km 300) that I got IN TIME!"
"I WILL do the Audax 600 in RIO GRANDE DO SUL"
"Because I DO WANT to finish AUDAX 1000km this year (september 2010)"
"BAD LUCKAX 600" - 608km (rode 300km)"
"Events: accident, tyre bomb wrecked, no tyre, riding in the rim, no flashlight..."
"ON SEARCH FOR MY RIDE RECORD in 24h - I WILL DO IT FORMALLY!"