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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani

First to bike on all five Great Lakes: One army veteran’s extreme winter cycling feat

Eric McKinney.

If there’s any nugget of truth to the Velominati’s rules, then Eric McKinney is officially a badass.

Because, per Rule #9, "If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period." And few places in the United States boast worse weather than the Great Lakes in the dead of winter. Yet, McKinney tackled the uncharted, icy wilderness to become the first person on record to have biked on all five Great Lakes: Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan and Superior.

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