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

[Gennaro Brooks-Church]

A 250cc scooter??
Uh, this is what a 250cc bike looks like:
*http://tinyurl.com/62e3aqd*

last time I checked a scooter was 50cc or lower.

Am I missing something?

Gennaro Brooks-Church

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Tim Vireo Keating <
t.keating at rainforestrelief.org> wrote:

> 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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