Jean François Casanovas, the Frenchman that circumbicycled the world 111.000 times

 




Jean François Casanovas spent his 93 years of life bicycling the world non-stop, like a modern Magellan, he completed the whole traject Brest-Melbourne-Brest 111.000 times, even crossing the oceans with his bicycle, which was equipped with an amphibious dispositive that the Californian engineer John Flambo designed especially for him.

Casanovas suffered many incidents during his peripli, for example one time when he was almost lynched in Papua-New Guinea, because he refused to dance obscene  lambada for the natives, or during his crossing of the Pyrenees in 1978, when he was attacked and almost killed by a crowd of wild Pyrenean hippopotamuses, shitty plague that devastate large extensions of the southern France and northern Spain, and often assault and devour the peaceful humans of the zone, that is getting depopulated now.

In 19..  Frank Zappa composed a song dedicated to him: "The manbicycle", and Charles DeGaulle named him honorary provost via satellite
those were the last words of De Gaulle, because he died 1 hour later, watching "The Benny Hill Show".
And also in 1972 the Guinness Book of Records signalled Casanovas as the man who stayed the longest amount of time without taking his trainers off: 11 years, 2 days and 59 minutes.


May this story be token for Jean François Casanovas, buried vertically with his bicycle, which actually couldn't be separated from his nates.