Can't say I'm impressed watching unprepared people doing these kind of things.
Where do you get that they are unprepared?
I'm fairly sure that there's a proof requirement for entering the LEL, as there is on a lot of long distance Audax events. For instance, with Paris-Brest-Paris, you have to have at least 6 brevits, increasing in distance up to 600km, in the months prior to the event.
Why not just buy a bike and ride it using a sane training plan to get fit? And then enter L-E-L? You don't get fit doing all the exercise you've failed to do for the last 20 years in 5 days, you just make something far more difficult than it actually is.
WTF are you rambling about?
You're talking as though these people have never ridden a bike before and just decide to rock up to a randonnée to ride 1400km. Are you really that dumb to think that?
I'm in the same club as one of the guys in the trailer (yes, the 'grandpa guy'), and he has been cycling since he could as a kid. The guy probably rides more km's in a year than you have in your life.
So what? Well, firstly it creates rather nauseating "reality TV" soundbites as this trailer shows.
Maybe you need to lay off watching reality tv?
Its a trailer for a documentary that is asking why people did this event. Of course, its going to have soundbites because its selling the documentary to people.
A guy saying he's "hallucinating"? Get a grip, grandpa.
Have you ever cycled any further than then end of your road? Like for more than a few hours? Even overnight?
I'm guessing you haven't because if you had even pushed yourself to any degree, you would have experienced it. Even staying up for over 24 hours, you would experience it.
Secondly because I think it sends completely the wrong message to anyone who wants to start cycling to get fit, lose weight or have fun.
You really are a fucking idiot, and I mean that with the greatest respect.
Its an endurance event. Anyone with an ounce of sense would grasp that, and if they were going to buy a bike to lose weight and get fit, they wouldnt think, "Why, I must do that myself now. I'll go out this weekend and ride 1400km with as little sleep as possible!"
Somehow these people appear to have been deluded into the idea that being ill prepared for something and therefore suffering as a result is what "endurance" is about or as though it should be like climbing Everest with frostbite and leaving a few people along the way to die or something.
No point commenting on this piece of utter fucking nonsense. You dont have a clue what you're talking about but have decided that you're going to slag the people, and this film off because you're an idiot.