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Sinclair C5 Completes John O'Groats to Lands End Run
1985

Sinclair C5 Completes John O'Groats to Lands End Run

John W. Owen and Roy Harvey completed a 919-mile journey from John O'Groats to Land's End using a Sinclair C5 electrically assisted cycle. The journey began on 30 April 1985 and took 103 hours and 15 minutes to complete. The achievement was subsequently recorded in the 1987 Guinness Book of Records as a long-distance record for a battery-powered vehicle.
Source: Guinness Book of Records, 1987; Sinclair C5 historical records — 4 May 1985
The journey from John O'Groats to Land's End began on 30 April 1985 and was completed on 4 May. Later records, including the 1987 Guinness Book of Records, credit John W. Owen and Roy Harvey with travelling 919 miles in a Sinclair C5 in 103 hours 15 minutes. A 17 April 1985 press release had previously announced the planned charity attempt by the ten-man Red Watch crew from Chingford Fire Station, raising funds for the Cancer Research Campaign and Royal Marsden Hospital. The relationship between the ten-man crew and the two riders credited in the later record requires further contemporary documentation.
Sinclair C5 Sinclair John W. Owen Roy Harvey John O'Groats Lands End Long Distance Battery Powered Vehicle Electric Vehicle Electric Cycle Sinclair Vehicles Guinness Book of Records 1985
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