The answer came to them early in 1977, when John thought of using a local bicycling club route. Judy and John said to each other, "If you do it, I'll do it," and John famously added "...whoever finishes first we'll call him the Iron Man."

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is called Iron Man for making sure to combine 500 different and scattered princely states to come under the same roof called “India.”

This iconic figure of India’s freedom movement is often referred to as the Iron Man and the Unifier of India, for playing a pivotal role in the integration of more than 500 princely states to form a new and united India post independence.