<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P><SPAN>Wait a minute, me on a bicycle averaging 195 miles per day (in order to stay on schedule)? Crazy. </SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>If I was on a unicycle or a Big Wheel, maybe. </SPAN><SPAN></P>
<P><BR><BR>Dave Bennink<BR>RE-USE Consulting<BR>dave@decon.us<BR>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Re-Use-Consulting/168260119870367<BR>360-201-6977<BR><BR></SPAN><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Tim Vireo Keating" <t.keating@rainforestrelief.org><BR>To: ArchiLogic@chaffyahoo.ca, "Green Building" <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org><BR>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:02:46 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] 2000 miles on a scooter to get to the green building conference<BR><BR>2000 miles in 11 - 12 days on a bicycle???<BR><BR>If you can do more than 60 miles/day on a bicycle, power to you. I <BR>can tell you that getting up to that distance in one day takes either <BR>some training, or a couple of days of recovery. Thirty miles/day is a <BR>good pace for long trips. That would put one at about 65 days, with <BR>no breaks. And, of course, no down days for repairs.<BR><BR>tim keating<BR><BR>At 9:58 PM -0400 4/29/11, RT wrote:<BR>>On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:23:48 -0400, Reuben Deumling <9watts@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>><BR>>>Even scooters aren't what they used to be. I thought 50cc was the scooter<BR>>>class. What is your anticipated fuel consumption for the trip?<BR>>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM, RE-USE Consulting <BR>>><go2nacho@comcast.net>wrote:<BR>>><BR>>>>... 2000 miles... on a 250cc scooter!<BR>><BR>>Back when I was a 15 yr-old keed, I had a 250cc Yamaha (yes, I drove <BR>>it without a license) and it was definitely in the motorCYCLE class.<BR>><BR>>It'd let out a loud wah-o-o-oOOOWWWRRR! as it screamed up to speeds<BR>>that were fast enough to make even invulnerable-minded teenaged boys <BR>>hang on for dear life.<BR>><BR>>My older brothers had a Harley-Davidson "Topper" and a Piatti <BR>>scooters before they moved "up" to motorcycles (BSA "Lightning" and <BR>>a Kawasaki something-or-other) and even though they were well over <BR>>50cc (Topper @ 165 cc <BR>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_Topper and the Piatti @ <BR>>125cc http://www.piattiscooter.com/history.htm ) they were more <BR>>like a modern-day electric-assist bicycle than they were the 250cc <BR>>Yamaha.<BR>><BR>>... point being that going by engine size might not tell one much.<BR>><BR>>My guess is that a 165 cc 1960's era scooter compared to a 165cc <BR>>2011 motorbike, would be like the difference between a 1960's era <BR>>250 cu inch 6-cylinder Chevy and a 2011-era 4 litre V-8 BMW ... so a <BR>>2011 250 cc probably wouldn't be a "scooter" ?<BR>><BR>>But I can definitely say that 2000 miles should be do-able in about <BR>>11-12 days on a bicycle.<BR>><BR>><BR>>--<BR>>=== * ===<BR>>Rob Tom<BR>>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<BR>>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><BR>>manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply"<BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>Greenbuilding mailing list<BR>>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<BR>>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<BR>><BR>>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<BR>>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR><BR>"The Earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the<BR>measure of our bodies are the same..."<BR> - Hinmaton Yalatkit, Nez Perce chief<BR>____________________________________________<BR><BR>R A I N F O R E S T R E L I E F<BR><BR>Sparing the World's Rainforests from Consumption<BR><BR>Rainforest Relief works to protect the world's remaining tropical<BR>and temperate rainforests by reducing the demand for the products<BR>and materials of rainforest destruction such as timber and paper,<BR>industrial agricultural products such as bananas, beef, coffee,<BR>chocolate and cut flowers, and mining products<BR>such as oil, gold and aluminum.<BR><BR>New York, NY: (917) 543-4064<BR>Portland, OR: (503) 236-3031<BR>http://www.rainforestrelief.org<BR>info@rainforestrelief.org<BR>Church Street Station * PO Box 298 * NY, NY 10008-0298<BR><BR>><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Greenbuilding mailing list<BR>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<BR>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<BR><BR>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<BR>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<BR></P></div></body></html>