Posted on 10/31/2013 6:25:00 PM PDT by oxcart
Three men, a souped-up Mercedes, 2,813 miles of American roadway, a bedpan, and a dream.
Ed Bolian, and his team, obliterated a cross-country driving record this month, racing from New York to LA in a heart-pounding 28 hours 50 minutes.
That’s 11 hours faster than Google maps says it should take, and nearly 3 hours faster than the previous record set in 2006 of 31 hours and 4 minutes.
“Honestly, I was so shocked at how much we had beat our target and previous record,” Bolian, a 27-year-old Lamborghini dealer from Atlanta told ABCNews.com.
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Oh no that’s fine, it’s two stories, just wanted you to see the other one.
I love these guys!
I here they used a different route than the other records were set on.
This is effectively cheatery.
I'd rather eat cheese and take an Imodium.
They had a long ways to go and a short time to get there. ;)
Well, there ya go. I’ll just have to drive on over. At seven miles a gallon, it’s gonna be close getting across the Atlantic...better fill up in West Hampton.
never forget my san francisco to minniesoda run in 1973,, 1900 miles in 30 hours,, damned near took out two elk in Wyoming in the middle of the night hauling series butt.. went right between them.. they never had a chance to move, , I was boogeying.. no lamborghini tho.. Chevy Nova
During the winter you can do up to around 150mph in the jet stream.
There is an amateur radio ballooning group (CA Near Space Project) that sent up a balloon that went from CA to Algeria, 6,236 miles, in 57 hours for an average of 109mph. It doubled the previous record of 3,361 miles.
News article.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/amateur-radio-balloon-makes-record-transcontinental-transatlantic-flight
Original article from CNSP.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-11/
They also had a second balloon that made a trans-Atlantic flight and landed in Morocco.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-18/
That's the first thing that came to mind for me as well!!!
Eccentric geniuses like this are who we should build statues of, not politicians.
Oh, and don't forget that kid who landed the plane in Red Square back in the 80s!
Thanks! Didn’t know about that.
While the balloon w/GPS & transmitter is cool, I’m most impressed that independent receivers turned into the data acquisition system. Nice.
Amen FRiend.
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Yamaha FJR Sets Continent Crossing Record
On minute Zero, John Ryan was in Prudhoe Bay, on the North Shore of Alaska. 5,191 minutes later, Ryan was in Key West, Florida, having traversed the entire North American Continent, the long way, on his 2005 Yamaha FJR 1300, outfitted with Metzeler Z6 Interact sport-touring tires. And with those 5,191 minutes, or, if you prefer, 86 hours and 31 minutes, Ryan totally destroyed the existing time record for this trip, of 96:01, by a clean 9.5 hours!
Am I really the first one to post this?
Just look at the comments to see how the bedwetters that normally watch abc “feel” about this. Those guys are awesome ! The “commenters”, not so much. Mostly along the lines of “glorifying law breakers” weenie, crybaby, got their asses kicked a lot in high school types : )
The replies at the site are astounding.
Almost all are denouncing the trip.
We as a nation have seemingly lost our frontier spirit.
Watch your diet for 2-3 days before leaving, and there is no reason to take a dump for 28 hours. Pissing in a bottle is all you’d need to do.
Meh, it was better when Adrienne Barbeau did it.
Thank you. I was waiting for the first Cannonball Run reference;the AB photo is icing on the cake.
That deserves a “well done”!!
How come a guy driving too fast is a maniac, but one driving too slow is an idiot?
H/T George Carlen
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