Meet The Lieutenant Colonel Breaking Cycling World Records

Brut India

Lt. Col. Bharat Pannu is in charge of the Indian army cycling team. This veteran has two consecutive Guinness World Records for fastest solo cycling, with a third one on the way. ️

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00:00Thanks for watching.

00:30The event was quite challenging, it was non-stop climbing.

00:44Even in October, the temperatures were ranging from minus 5 to minus 12 in the night.

00:50So it was something like I was riding inside a deep freezer.

01:20The difficult thing was that it was continuously riding in the plains, it was so much monotonous.

01:28From morning to evening, there was nothing changing.

01:45As we crossed Assam and moved towards Arunachal Pradesh, the condition of road there was

01:51really pathetic.

01:52The roads were there, but due to the monsoons, the roads were just washed off.

01:57I had to walk a lot of stretches.

02:15I have done about 16 years of service in Army and out of those 16 years, 4 years were with

02:21the tanks and past 10 years were with the aviation industry.

02:45The future of Indian cycling is bright for sure.

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