Posted on 09/03/2022 10:56:13 AM PDT by libstripper
Interesting. I was in Portland then, but I don’t remember hearing about this ride. I was commuting on my bicycle from the hills of SW Portland over to the east side that summer. Learned to stay off the bike paths because of the pedestrians.
Not that hard. I did 50 today on gravel in under 3 hours.
Under 4 hours.
Nah, it was the Obama Intercontinental Railroad. They reached Hawaii and ran out of money, so they never did make it from North America to Asia. But the name stuck anyway. (September 2011)
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.
Plus all the flat tires.
5.56mm
“I forget how long it took them, several weeks I think.” Some pro cyclists race across America (Seattle to Boston) and finish in seven days. One pro lady said, “Kansas never ends. The state just goes on and on.”
I’m sure it was more like a couple of months, then, because Andy and Steve had no support vehicles and were carrying camping gear.
I knew a girl once who was going to cycle across the U.S. but didn’t finish because she got psyched out watching the Rockies get taller and taller over the course of several days as she approached across the Great Plains.
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