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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!

Some of your Sundays were Saturdays.

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.

I've ridden around the Earth!

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

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 :)

You are a bit strange aren't you?

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

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