Didi Senft: Cycling Superfan and Builder of Outrageous Bicycles

Posted by Alex in Sports, World Records on April 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm


Ever sport has got its hardcore fan, and cycling is no different: it has Didi Senft, a 56-year-old cycling superfan better known as "El Diablo" (yes, he wears the devil’s cape everywhere he goes).

Didi is quite famous in the cycling world; he has over 100 unusual and record-breaking bicycles. Deborah of Life in the Fast Lane has more on this guy:

Didi Senft has also built a recumbent double-decker tandem, and a giant rickshaw 42 feet (12.4 meters) long, on which the passenger sits at a dizzying height of 21 feet 10 inches (6.65 meters) above the ground.

Didi made the world’s largest soccerball bicycle out of more than 100 footballs and rode it around to promote the World Cup 2006 in Germany.

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3 comments to "Didi Senft: Cycling Superfan and Builder of Outrageous Bicycles"

  1. Johnny Cat
    April 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    That appears to be one nutty guy.

  2. Koko
    April 10th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    I think I saw this guy on the Amgen Tour of California webcam. At the very least, I know I saw someone in a devil costume chasing a couple of riders up a hill. Pretty funny to watch, actually.

  3. liphttam1
    April 12th, 2009 at 11:52 am

    So he's 56. Not a good age to fall from that hight.


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