Spot is approximate.
Back to Alchema Interactive A sample by Alchema Interactive, built from Chris Yates's footage. Not the organizers' site.Back to Alchema Interactive A sample by Alchema Interactive, built from Chris Yates's footage. Not the organizers' site.
3,497 motorcycles.motorcycles. One parade. Brought home to Paris, Texas.
Cox Field, Paris, TexasSaturday, October 5, 2019
Footage: Chris Yates Films, official media partner
One line of riders, about three miles of runway, nothing else in the way.
Leaving the apron
Drawn from OpenStreetMap runway data, checked against overhead imagery. North is up. The exact course was never published, so the orange line is our reading of the footage. It measures about two miles; the organizers called the ride about three, so the real course likely had turns we can't see.
Spot is approximate.
Cox Field rebuilt from the runway layout and Chris's footage, with all 3,497 bikes. Watch the rows peel off the apron one at a time, unfurl down the taxiway, ride the runway and park again. Drag to look around, or ride along. The bikes are plain cruisers, and the people and tents are an impression, not a record of who stood where.
The 3D airfield couldn't start on this device. The airport diagram above shows the same loop, and the footage tells the rest.
Greece held the record from 2010 until this afternoon in Paris, Texas.