World’s largest bicycle weighs over 150 tonnes

Next time you are at the bike shop and longingly pick up a feather-light frame, don’t be the too quick to bemoan the weight of your own bike – instead spare a thought for 150-tonne creation built by farmers in honour of the Tour de France.

Farmers in the Loire region built the bicycle, which is over 40m tall and 100m long from cylindrical hay bales weighing up to 900kg each. The weight of the frame alone is an estimated 54 tonnes. Each wheel, which comprises a dozen tractors, weighs in at a monster pot hole-causing 50 tonnes

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