Round the world in 196 Days

CanterburyTailwind · February 2008

Anyone seen this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 245381.stm
Sorry if there's a thread out there already....but 196 days?? Is that possible? He must have legs of steel. Or should that be titanium?

kaffenback · February 2008

Heard this on the news too, would love to find out more details about this, what route he took what his average milage was. What a guy!

rdaviesb · February 2008

Chapeau to that man! Awesome.

ForumNewbie · February 2008

Wow!! If he actually cycled 18,000 miles (not including boat crossings?) it means an average of 92 miles a day over the 195 days.

daviddd · February 2008

The report said he did 100 miles a day - pretty amazing! I wish I'd known about it while he was doing it - could've followed the blog.

Tourist Tony · February 2008

I met Mark at Norseman as he was about to start the Nullarbor and I was about to set off for Perth. A really nice guy.

bigjim · February 2008

I thought Nick Saunders did it in 80days?

Jim :?

Tourist Tony · February 2008

...and he's stuck my piccy on the web site. Fame at last lol!
Nov 14th.....

john ponting · February 2008

bigjim wrote:

I thought Nick Saunders did it in 80days?

Jim :?

I believe there have been changes to the rules ...

Hereford Flyer · February 2008

bigjim wrote:

I thought Nick Saunders did it in 80days?

Jim :?

Yes - Nick Sanders 79 days back in1983? on an Ilkston built 753 road bike.
So what was the change in the rules? anyone know?

nwallace · February 2008

For a minute I thought you meant this Nick Saunders
http://www.nicksanders.com/

Knowing he had been round in 30 days on a motorbike, then a bit more googling discovered it to be the same Nick Saunders!

ridertothesea · March 2008

Thats quite an achievement. Respect.

My only reservation would be that he seems to have taken quite a roundabout route through the US in order to build up the critical 18,000 miles ? What does everyone else think?

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