Cyclists old and new came together to try beat two world records.
And now they’re waiting to see if their efforts will be ratified by the Guinness World Record officials.
A total of 561 people from Holmfirth and places as far as Edinburgh and Bristol put their best foot forward at Holmfirth Vineyard to break records for the most people cycling one kilometre in eight hours and the most in 12 hours.
They took on the record on a static bike.
And organiser Matthew Norton, who put on the event to raise money for his Sub Saharan education charity Memusi Foundation, said that at least one, if not both, of the records was broken thanks to great “community spirit”.
He said: “We had to have more than 250 cyclists for the eight hour attempt and we got 277.
“To break the 12 hour record we needed 379 and I believe that we managed 380.
“We filmed the entire event and calculated the kilometres on the bikes and have sent them off to Guinness World Record team who will give the final decision.
“The most amazing thing about the day though was the community coming together to help us.
“We were struggling a bit towards the end but people started to contact their friends and by the final hour we were really busy– what a great community spirit.”
He said around £65,000 had been raised through the event and a connected 1,700 mile cycle ride undertaken by two men from Africa to Holmfirth, that ended at the vineyard at the start of the record attempt.
