[libstripper]

There are two terms to describe this guy: iron bottom and hard ass. I did the math and he averaged about 46 miles per day. Having done some long distance bicycle riding in the past, I can say that after a week of it at about 300 miles I almost needed a posterior replacement. More power to him, and I hope he makes his next ride. The incredible thing is that he doesn't look particularly underweight from his pictures. One thing I'd really like to know about his ride is how often he re-spoked his wheels. In my riding days I discovered that a bicycle wheel would last not much more than 1500 miles before it needed to be re-spoked.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

“spoke” with Barnes. lol

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It would be difficult to ride to Juneau, but I really want to know how he rode to Honolulu.

[TexasGator]

I had a roommate that bike across country. He left Wahington and headed to the South planning to enroll in college.

When he reached the Alabama coast he started asking about universities’

He was pointed to UF and pedaled to Gainesville.

[Bikkuri]

Forest Gump on a bike?

[Winniesboy]

A properly built wheel (especially if hand-built, with the spokes carefully stressed) can last for thousands of miles if well maintained. The first things to go are usually the bearings rather than the spokes, then the rim if rim brakes are used. (The metal under the braking surfaces has become ridiculously thin in most modern wheels). But the increasing popularity of disc brakes makes this less of a problem.

[joshua c]

our future

remember all those chinese on bikes?

[Mercat]

We have a friend in her 70s who does these types of rides. She’s gone across the country several times.

[DainBramage]

Not that hard. I did 50 today on gravel in under 3 hours.

[hflynn]

I'm not buying it. This guy looks like he has been sitting on a bar stool for 359 days. Instead he says he averaged 46.4 miles a day on a bike for 359 which added up to 16661 miles. I guess the 666 means the devil made him do it. I'm not buying it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

You must have been exceptionally hard on your wheels. When I was in the business in the 80’s wheel building was my specialty. It was not uncommon for the wheels I built to go thousands of miles without being re-trued, much less rebuilt. It included both touring wheels and racing.

[M Kehoe]

Plus all the flat tires.

5.56mm