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el-nicko wrote:
slparry wrote: What stunned me was finding Kevin and Julia Sanders were averaging 1000 miles per day for 19 days on their circumnavigation of the world.

http://tinyurl.com/kevnjulia

Well knowing the speeds I have to 'hit' to cover the 50 miles between (for instance) my daughters house in Wolverhampton and my place in Herefordshire in an hour (albeit mostly on 'B' roads), I find a 1000 miles a day, day after day, inconprehensible. Makes me feel like a snail in comparison :(
Travel on the continent is in a whole different class to hideously overcrowded Britain :). I seem to recall being told that France was something like 3 times the surface area as the UK with a similar population size hence so much less hassle to ride in, with the exception of the Paris Periphique ... .that place often scares the bejeesus out of me at peak times :)

I did some courier work at one time and often had a run from north Wales to Heathrow, then a pick up in London to go to Glasgow, that's a long old day I tell you, by the time you get back to north Wales you're sick of bikes :)
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I'm knackered just thinkin bout that [smilie=zzsoft.gif]
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Mr. Spock is my role model so be advised; I possess no (discernible) sense of humour.

It's all VFR (DCT) round here now. STILL missing my 1100s tho.
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