[Greenbuilding] 2000 miles on a scooter to get to the green building conference

[Tim Vireo Keating]

2000 miles in 11 - 12 days on a bicycle???

If you can do more than 60 miles/day on a bicycle, power to you. I 
can tell you that getting up to that distance in one day takes either 
some training, or a couple of days of recovery. Thirty miles/day is a 
good pace for long trips. That would put one at about 65 days, with 
no breaks. And, of course, no down days for repairs.

tim keating

At 9:58 PM -0400 4/29/11, RT wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:23:48 -0400, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Even scooters aren't what they used to be. I thought 50cc was the scooter
>>class. What is your anticipated fuel consumption for the trip?
>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM, RE-USE Consulting 
>><go2nacho at comcast.net>wrote:
>>
>>>... 2000 miles... on a 250cc scooter!
>
>Back when I was a 15 yr-old keed, I had a 250cc Yamaha (yes, I drove 
>it without a license) and it was definitely in the motorCYCLE class.
>
>It'd let out a loud wah-o-o-oOOOWWWRRR! as it screamed up to speeds
>that were fast enough to make even invulnerable-minded teenaged boys 
>hang on for dear life.
>
>My older brothers had a Harley-Davidson "Topper" and a Piatti 
>scooters before they moved "up" to motorcycles (BSA "Lightning" and 
>a Kawasaki something-or-other) and even though they were well over 
>50cc (Topper @ 165 cc 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_Topper and the Piatti @ 
>125cc  http://www.piattiscooter.com/history.htm ) they were more 
>like a modern-day electric-assist bicycle than they were the 250cc 
>Yamaha.
>
>... point being that going by engine size might not tell one much.
>
>My guess is that a 165 cc 1960's era scooter compared to a 165cc 
>2011 motorbike, would be like the difference between a 1960's era 
>250 cu inch 6-cylinder Chevy and a 2011-era 4 litre V-8 BMW ... so a 
>2011 250 cc probably wouldn't be a "scooter" ?
>
>But I can definitely say that 2000 miles should be do-able in about 
>11-12 days on a bicycle.
>
>
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