Nutters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/3148800.stm

local nutters as well by the look of things.

 

It was a '16,000 mile journey' for which they took '35 days', but 'on
average they covered 1,000 miles a day'.

Eh?

 

I can only presume that they didn't ride every day out of those 35,
and that the sentence should have read something like "on a typical
days's riding they covered 1000 miles".

 

BBC reporting at it's finest then.

 

It's shit.

I reckon it's do-able in about 15 days without too many problems.

 

Let us know how you get on.

 

They got lost and spent 10 days heading in the wrong direction?

 

apart from, perhaps, a prolapsed rectum.

I see they're on an R1150GS, which is probably a good choice for the
task in hand. I do hope they had it serviced twice by authorized BMW
dealerships during those 15000 miles, mind you!

 

5 Days?

 

To be fair to them, the roads were probably less than ideal for a fair
bit of the trek.

I wouldn't be quite that confident.....

 

1000 miles on most days riding, Im assuming they weren't sticking to the
speed limits then? I managed over 1k when I went to germany and that was
with the fazer pinned at 140 all the way there.

 

Yeah, I was thinking that, isn't the speed limit about 50 in most US
States? Makes for a fucking dull month if you *do* stick to the speed
limits!

 

Nope. It changed several years back IFAIAW.

 

Power Grainger came forth with the following in uk.rec.motorcycles

It was 70 when I was over in California in September

 

I didn't say over the same route..

 

Who taught you maths? To be pedantic (and why not?) it should be 9.5 days in
the wrong direction but allowing for rounding errors....

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Nope, 5 days in the wrong direction, then 5 days in the "right"
direction getting back to where they got lost in the first place.

Assuming same rate of travel after the "I told you this was the wrong
way..." moment.

 

Yes but at 1000 miles per day thats only 10000 miles whereas a 35 day
journey is 35000 miles. 35k-16k is ?

 

Errm, 19k, errm 9.5 days in wrong direction before the "ITYTWTWW"
moment.

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