Scotish man smashes record for cycling round the world

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Scotish man smashes record for cycling round the world

Postby Colin.Steadman » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:51 pm

18000 miles in 195 days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 245381.stm
MrPVT: you've got something to aim for there. :)
There are some pretty good video /audio clips of his trip here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/ ... round/map/
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Re: Scotish man smashes record for cycling round the world

Postby Tim Coales » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:41 pm

Yes, I just heard a brief report on R4's PM programme. Apparantely he only had 7 punctures - some people get that many on the clubrun! :lol:
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Re: Scotish man smashes record for cycling round the world

Postby Antloony » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:50 pm

yes only 7 punctures, but considering he was using solid tyres its a bit poor in reality... :D
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