Matthew Fairbrother: Christchurch cyclist on biking through a McDonald's drive-thru for 24 hours

'Deliberately absurd' is how a Christchurch mountain biker describes his idea to cycle around a McDonald's drive-thru for 24 hours. 

21-year-old Matthew Fairbrother clocked up 500 kilometres on the ride on Christmas Day. 

Fairbrother told Andrew Dickens it may be a world record of some sort, as he's not aware of anyone doing something similar. 

He concedes the idea was a bit pointless, but was to put himself to the test and see what he could achieve when his mind was put to something. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Over a year ago, Matthew Fairbrother came up with an
idea that is admittedly absurded and possibly pointless. The twenty
one year old enduring cyclist hash to plan to bike
around his local matchers for twenty four hours straight. He
had to be done on Christmas Day because that's the
only day of the year that McDonald's closed, So on
Christmas Day last year, just a few weeks ago, he

(00:37):
made it happen to Matthew Fairbrother joins me.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Now, hello, Matthew, good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm good. I've only got one question for you.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Why Well, yeah, it may seem a bit pointless, and
I can I've been side with that. Definitely stupid, But
it was to put myself to the test, to see
what I can do when I set my mind to something,
and see how fast doubness can get me.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
So that I thought what I went and did.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now I understand that in the twenty four hours you
did five hundred kilometers round and around your local machas.
Now you did quite well, that's a big distance.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
I did I biked that far but didn't even leave
the car park.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
So how long?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
How long was the lap?

Speaker 5 (01:30):
A laps time wise took me between twenty to twenty
five seconds, so yeah, not.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Long at all.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So how did you prevent yourself from going insane when
basically you were doing the same thing every twenty five
seconds for twenty four hours?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I think I did go insane. That was the challenge.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
I knew physically I had it in me that mentally
it was a massive unknown. I didn't know how I
was going to handle this challenge, but that's exactly why
I find myself up to do it.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Do you believe you've broken some kind of world record
in any way, shape or form, or are you the
only person in the world crazy enough to do something
like this.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
I've never heard of anyone else doing this before, so yeah,
I think it's just just me out there. Who's who's
attempted something like this? But I'd love to see someone
else go and give it a shot.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, I was going to ask, are you going to
give it another shot? Because you've got to. You've got
a benchmark now that you can beat. You could do
five hundred and one k.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yeah, Well I've ticked off the McDonald's, so maybe a
Burger King or Caste Nicks, but.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Not anytime. So I think I've that's great. Can I
have to give myself some time after this one?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Was there any greater cause, like a charity or anything?
Or was it just you and your crazy mates?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Just me?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Like all all the challenges I do are kind of
self self inflipted, I guess, and I just to push
my limits and see what I'm capable of. And this
one was quite spontaneous. I said, he wasn't any time
to set up anything for a bigger cause.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, Matthew fairbrother, congratulations on your wildly pointless endeavor. That
is still rather impressive. Five hundred kilometers, twenty five second laps,
twenty four hours, Christmas Day around them acs amazing.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
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