- A 72-year-old woman set a Guinness World Record while riding her bike from north to south across the United States.
- Lynnea Salvo finished her trip in San Ysidro, California, 43 days after she started it.
- She also broke the record for the oldest person to ride a bike across Canada.
A 72-year-old woman set a Guinness World Record while riding her bike from north to south across the United States. It took her 43 days to cover 2,083 miles.
Guinness World Records said Lynnea Salvo was 72 years and 27 days old when she finished her trip in San Ysidro, California, 43 days after she started it.
Salvo’s trip along the Pacific coast was just one part of her larger project to create the GPS image of a peace sign across the United States and Canada.
In 2016, when she was 67 years old, the cyclist set a record for being the oldest person to ride her bike from Oceanside, California, to Bethany Beach, Delaware. She also broke the record for the oldest person to ride a motorcycle across Canada when, at 68 years and 340 days old, she did it in 2018.
Salvo told Guinness World Records, “Since my records are age-related rather than speed-related, I don’t have to go fast, so I don’t suffer the exhaustion speed cyclists do.”
She said that her peace sign project is for her brother, John Thomas West, who died when his plane crashed in Laos when he was 28 years old.
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