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Eurostar
Joined: 13 Jun 2004
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 Posted Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:50 pm |
Sadly Guinness scrubbed his 80 days record when they rewrote the rules: an overland circumnavigation now has to be 18,000 miles+ by land, another 8,000+ by sea or air, via 2 antipodal points. Backtracking distances don't count. Nick's trip was all in the Northern hemisphere (I think) and roughly 13,000 miles.
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nun
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Posted Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:00 pm |
| Bazhorn wrote: | | I'm reading 'The great bike ride - around the world in 80 days' by Nick Sanders at the moment, and from the photos, he was riding a racing bike with only 2 front panniers on his trip round the world! |
The Crane Bros "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" is another good extreme cycling story. They used 2 small rear panniers to ride over the Himalayas, acoss TIbet and The Gobi to the spot on the Earth furthest from any Ocean. The had no stove, no tent, and carried little food or water relying on finding shelter and supplies along the way
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lloyd bower
Joined: 06 Nov 2002
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Location: Auckland, NZ
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Posted Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:18 pm |
| nun wrote: | | Bazhorn wrote: | | I'm reading 'The great bike ride - around the world in 80 days' by Nick Sanders at the moment, and from the photos, he was riding a racing bike with only 2 front panniers on his trip round the world! |
The Crane Bros "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" is another good extreme cycling story. They used 2 small rear panniers to ride over the Himalayas, acoss TIbet and The Gobi to the spot on the Earth furthest from any Ocean. The had no stove, no tent, and carried little food or water relying on finding shelter and supplies along the way |
Agree, the Crane brother's account on barely modified raleigh racing bikes with skinny tyres and tiny panniers on some at times pretty dreadful roads is certainly an interesting read. It's actually available on the net:-
http://web.archive.org/web/20041211045554/http://www.koopmann.lightup.net/crane/
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daniel77
Joined: 21 Jun 2008
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Posted Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:07 pm |
Nick Sanders's achievement knocks Mark Beaumont's ride into the shade. Do the maths - Nick's 13,000 miles in 79 days is over 160 miles a day compare to Mark's 92 miles a day. They both would have lost a few days with transfers which would pushed Nick's average up by more than Mark's. And from what I remember, Nick's ride was also unsupported. It's not his fault that the record criteria were changed.
Don't get me wrong, Mark's ride was very impressive, but basically it was a very long tour. I wouldn't like the pressure of riding 100 miles a day for 200 days but in my time in cycling I have known quite a few riders who can comfortably ride 90 or 100 miles a day, day after day, indeed longer distances than that. Look at most pros in training.
So, the way is open for someone to seriously take this record apart! Any takers?
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