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I first used a cyclecomputer around Easter 2002. Today, because of my assortment of wheel sizes, I have two. One reads 3,601 miles; one reads 21,445 miles. This is a total of 25,046 miles. The Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles. I've ridden around the Earth!

I'm too lazy to write ride reports but I've done a 200km ride every weekend this month, which was my original mad plan. If I hadn't just found my downtube cracked I'd be happier. :-/

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woohoo! That's amazing!

Nah, just persistent. Steve Abraham doing 40,500 km in events of 200km or more in one year is amazing.

Some of your Sundays were Saturdays.

Point.

Which direction?

That's really quite a lot of miles!

Works out as about 70 miles a week... If I'd kept up on my teenage commitment to ride 100 miles a week (which I did, for about three years), I would now be more than halfway to the moon.

You only need to keep this up for another sixty years to cover the full mileage to Tranquility Base.

Curiously, I did ride just over 100 miles a week commuting from 2002 to the end of 2004, but then obviously had a few thin years.

I've ridden around the Earth!

No you haven't, you were afflicted by Brownian motion.

Oh, well, at least I didn't get as wet.

Arse, commiserations on the downtube (and I hope your arse isn't feeling those 200ks too much!). You're steel right, and could get it fixed? Is it worth doing?

I've only managed a couple of thousand miles according to the bike computer, but I didn't have it on the bike a lot of the same - and lately it's completely batshit and I only keep it on for amusement value: current max speed is over 200mph, and my journey to work was 0.39 miles one day and about 8.5 the next. I should remove it before it starts actually skewing the genuine miles though. I dunno if it's the battery or the wires or something else.

Well done anyway :)

Well, I had it done in 2000 or so and again in 2005. No, that shouldn't happen. This time to Mercian not Bob Jackson, and have the head lug replaced; it's gone at the point of the lug each time.

It's _kind_ of worth doing - it costs about L180.

You are a bit strange aren't you?

Duh. But not, particularly, for this; a granny who rides 2 miles to the shops each day will make it around the world in a few decades...

Congrats! Next time you cycle around the world, be sure to revolutionise it as well please. :D

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