Those Brits are hardy souls. There's another tale, in a book titled "Sting in the Tail: By Racing Bicycle Around the World" written by Peter Kuker (Pelham Books, 1973). The book describes the author's solo ride on a Raleigh Professional racing bicycle "around the world" with a "kit" of around 20 lbs. I don't think that many would attempt such an adventure, but there's always someone!
Jim On Jun 29, 3:04 pm, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rob, thanks for the link. I'll be spending more time reading over > those pages in the coming days. > > --mike > > On Jun 29, 9:53 am, rob markwardt <robmar...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >http://web.archive.org/web/20041211045554/http://www.koopmann.lightup... > > > I just read about these guys on the CR list and found the above link. > > Two cousins from Great Britain bike to the "Centre of the World".. > > (somewhere in China...through Gobi desert, Tibet, Himalayas?). They > > did it on lightweight Raleigh racing bikes (753 tubing). Although they > > traveled lightly, their bikes didn't fall apart so I'm pretty certain > > the Hilsen will be fine on a trip around Mt. Adams. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
