Amazing work Henry. The two Le Col guys chopped my front wheel on Newlands, then chopped a rider further up clipping a wheel causing him to topple. Not cool.

agreed as below, very down to earth and possibly not realised the enormity of achievement :-) well done and good to see someone on an 'old bike'

Paul’s blow by blow account of the route brought back all the pain of when I did it about ten years ago and vowed never again!

What a level headed young man and an excellent post race discussion. Thanks Mapdec

Well done Henry! An excellent time and great interview. It was a pleasure riding and chatting with you out in Spain in February, when we were going in the same direction. I recall you mentioning that you were training for a sub 6 at FW, and you smashed it.

That's a mighty impressive time Henry, well done. To anyone unfamiliar, this is superhuman level performance, so strong at 20ish... we'd probably like to think we were that fast at that age but err, no we weren't....

Belting good job. Great watch. Sky is the limit for that chap. Puts my 10hr fred into perspective. Well done.

What a fantastic result💪💪 Well done. Look forward to seeing you in future events👍👍 BTW what a serious aero position - lots of stretching/strengthening needed to stay that low!

Cheers Henry! Very well done. All the best.

That’s amazing! Well done fella! And humble too, a total class young man!

Great effort young Henry! A good 2-hour ahead of my PB. What an amazing course. I'll be back for a 3rd time next year

What a lovely humble lad! Unbelievable effort! Well done Henry!

Awesome interview, What a Guy!!!! That’s amazing, Well Done 👍 🥇🚴🏼‍♂️💨

Well done Henry! Huge ride. Almost 20mph on that route is bonkers! Us mere mortals are in awe!

Yes Henry! Stoked for you!

Henry. Massive effort. Congrats. You mentioned not being comfortable in your saddle and I noticed your saddle is leaning forward. Again, amazing effort !!!

Awesome effort Henry nice work 👍 very inspiring young man with your obvious dedication the sky is the limit 👍

Brilliant ride ,wow,very down to earth person, very best of luck with future endeavours 👍

Really inspiring!

👌👌excellent interview, great new young talent … hope he does well . Very humble …

Brilliant effort, must have flown round. Going by start times you must have passed me somewhere round Braithwaite/the bottom of Whinlatter, no doubt blinked and missed you. Good luck with the Nationals

Well done. A great achievement.

Great to see specialized on the channel 🙂

Cracking effort Henry what a great achievement. I took part in this years and was one of the slowest on the day but would like to think one of the heaviest at 115kg and 46 yr old and carried way to much kit and food in comparison to Henry. Lessons learned and hopefully will be a lot quicker next year.

Wow! I did this years ago on a kona honky tonk with triple chainset and it took me 8 hours 50 minutes 😂.. Top work mate. It's chaos that ride trying to keep a good cadence

Impressed, simply very impressed by a young guy, who delivers enviable and persistent performance, but still is very humble. I wish him he will be able to repeat his achievements. Henry, just go on this way, persistent and step by step.

Congrats on the result!

Very Impressive performance. nice humble young man. Well done Henry.

RESPECT Henry a truly inspiring effort!

Henry is a deserving young man, hoping he gets everything out of life he wants.

Henry what an absolutely monster performance!!!. Many congratulations you have now been upgraded to mk1 A grade racing snake status!!.

Outstanding fella. I couldn’t get a ticket so I did it on Saturday 11th solo. I have no idea how you kept that pace in that heat.

Incredible effort and great interview! I also took part but only managed sub 8!

It's great to see a young, talented, hardworking lad do well on home territory. Congratulations, Henry! 👏 (I hope the replacement tyre was FOC 😉).

love that bike

Well done Henry 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Love hearing and seeing what’s gone into the preparation of the Fred whitton, fair play to the fella👊 yet can’t help but feel a little pissed of, that I have failed to get into the the Fred on 3 occasions! Yet this guy has done 3 times, go figure. Oh I did make the reserve list number 276😂😂😂 so I should get in next year, that’s if I move to Lake District 👍🏻

What a great time, I rode for the first time and got 8.10 moving but 8.30 total, I rode a bit to conservatively as I hadn’t done it before, I think I could manage a sub 8 without some of the other traffic delays also. The rode to Keswick was interesting, I got stuck behind other cars but played it safe, there were a few fast riders overtaking cars with cars coming the other way, which is disappointing and could have caused a serious accident, I think it’s important to note although people want a good time, it’s not a closed road race

Brilliant video and very interesting. Amazing effort, and well done Henry. Would love to know how much you weigh? Still can’t make my mind up on my own tyre pressure...

Very talented young man.

Echoing the other sentiments- extremely humble lad and an inspiration to a rider twice his age!

Henry .. amazing bruv! Amount of money people spend on the kit to do Fred. Mate you really humble and super bloke. All the best wishes. Guys like you could, with that attitude, go all the way to the top of cycling. Hope you keep going and get some good contracts.

Massive congrats to Henry!

Awesome well done Henry, fantastic ride and great to get some insights. Paul it would be good to know what you might carry as spares/tools in this type of ride and on some of the longer gravel endurance stuff 😉

Oustanding lad.

A good effort!

What an excellent ride. Proper preparation show what can be achieved. Many wing it especially with nutrition but Henry really did nail it. Also what make is the saddle bag?

Under 6 hours some effort that, love his bike too 😊

Inspiring as looks like ordinary youngster and seems to have been very sensible seemingly well supported by Mapdec with preparation.

Well done Henry 👍

Heck ya dude

Very humbling young man

I remember what must have been his group going past us between Keswick and honister. Great pace. Not safe re: the cars

That’s seriously rapid. I’ve done it a few times now and never got below 7.15, and that’s after a *lot* of training. Ok, I’m twice that lad’s age, but I’m not going to kid myself; I wouldn’t have got within an hour of Henry at his age. That’s top work.

Well done Henry, you've got a great team at Mapdec Paul. Was Henry running tubes or tubeless?

That is an unreal time, I've done it twice.............rather slower !

Yikes! 💪💪💪

I would just like to know what is ike to ride the hardknott pass without the rain !

I imagine the Fred Whitton would suck. We have a fun ride with a made up history in Colorado Springs called the 719 (takes place the weekend closest to july, the 7th month the 19th) that is 2801 meters of climbing in 71.9 miles. The full ride is 5 laps of a course. I managed two.

I don't know if this lad races or not but surely this level of ability should translate into Being at the least competitive in the equivalent of the old Premier calendar races----not sure what there called now 🤔.

Pro teams must be interested.

Incredible. Give the lad a payrise 😊

Who’s the bcw lad @ 41 secs 💪

On a proper tarmac! With its correct geo and correct aero cut out! SL7, sl8 take note…as coined on this channel…detuned

What a canny lad.

David Arthur = 7 hours 15? Not bad.

If he needs a training buddy i'm washing my hair that day