Designed and built by eight Dutch engineers, the world’s longest rideable bicycle is 180 feet long (55.16 meters), roughly the same length as four double-decker buses.
由八名荷兰工程师设计和制造的世界上最长的可骑自行车有180英尺长，大致相当于四辆双层巴士的长度。
39-year-old Ivan Schalk had been thinking about building the world’s longest bicycle since reading about it in a Guinness Book of Records when he was a child, but he only started this project several years ago, as a way to fill up his free time. He knew it wasn’t the kind of thing he could build himself, so he sought the help of like-minded people in his home village of Prinsenbeek, which is apparently well-known in the Netherlands for its tech-savvy residents. Together, they spent about four years — not counting the two years of interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — working on the world’s longest bicycle.
39岁的伊万·沙尔克(Ivan Schalk)从小就在《吉尼斯世界纪录》(Guinness Book of Records)上读到有关世界最长自行车的报道，之后他就一直想建造一辆世界上最长的自行车，但他几年前才开始这个项目，只是为了打发自己的空闲时间。他知道这不是他自己能造出来的东西，所以他在家乡普林斯贝克村(Prinsenbeek)寻求志同道合的人的帮助。在荷兰，普林斯贝克村显然以其精通技术的居民而闻名。他们一起花了大约四年的时间——不包括因COVID-19大流行而中断的两年——建造了世界上最长的自行车。
“I’ve been thinking about the idea for years,” Schalk told Guinness Records. “The goal was to break the world record for the longest bicycle in the world. To achieve this, we took into account all the rules of Guinness World Records (GWR) when building our bicycle.”
沙尔克告诉吉尼斯纪录:“我已经考虑这个想法很多年了。”“我们的目标是打破世界上最长自行车的世界纪录。为了实现这一目标，我们在制造自行车时考虑了吉尼斯世界纪录的所有规则。”
According to the Guinness rulebook, a maximum of two people are allowed to sit on the 55.16-meter-long bicycle, one at the front at the handlebars and one at the back to pedal. However, Schalk also allowed three other people to sit on the long metal structure connecting the front and the back of the bike. They didn’t help in any way, on the contrary, they were added weight, but Guinness decided that there were too many people riding the contraption (奇特的装置) to qualify it for the longest bicycle record.
根据吉尼斯世界纪录的规定，这辆长55.16米的自行车最多只能坐两个人，一人坐在前面的车把上，一人坐在后面的踏板上。然而，沙尔克也允许另外三个人坐在连接自行车前后的长长的金属结构上。他们没有任何帮助，相反，他们增加了重量，但吉尼斯决定，因为太多人骑这个新奇的东西，所以它不符合最长自行车的记录。
The team was slightly disappointed by the original decision, but they decided to simply take the record for the world’s longest tandem (双人自行车) and then go for the record for the world’s largest rideable bicycle as well, this time with the required two people on it. They recently got the confirmation from Guinness that they are the proud owners of two world records.
团队对最初的决定有点失望，但他们决定直接打破世界最长双人自行车的记录，然后再去打破世界上最大的可骑自行车的记录，这一次需要两个人一起骑。他们最近得到了吉尼斯的确认，他们是两项世界纪录的骄傲拥有者。
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