India rider breaks record for longest ride in single country

[DezzertRider]

https://www.cartrade.com/car-bike-news/biker-from-india-breaks-world-record-for-longest-ride-in-single-country-129348.html

 

[Pterodactyl]

It would be more impressive if he did it in Luxembourg.

 

[puppychow]

I suppose one of our LD riders will break this in the USA in the coming years. USA! USA! Come on!

I suppose they are speaking of a contiguous journey? No breaks from riding, and riding every day? How many miles/km minimum every day, and no upper time limit, it seems it could be any number of days strung together.

I won't be surprised if someone from the IBA has already surpassed this, and Guiness just doesn't know or care, have they?

 

[HotRodZilla]

I got 100 bucks on 101stPathfinder. He's just got to get the vacation time. Lol.

 

[LKLD]

I won't be taking that bet.

 

[gixxerjasen]

Interesting. It says he's "From" India, but oddly the article doesn't say what country he did it in. I suppose India, but it doesn't say.

This record is waiting on 101stPathfinder to retire. I hear he's planning on writing a paragraph across the US using spotwalla.

 

[Bounce]

Odd. G of the US said they won't be documenting distance records on public roads about the time people were breaking the 2k day.

 

[mcatrophy]

Interesting. It says he's "From" India, but oddly the article doesn't say what country he did it in. I suppose India, but it doesn't say....

From the Guinness Book of Records site. It was in India.

The longest journey by motorcycle in a single country is 38,239 km (23761 miles) and was achieved by Manigandan Manjunathan (India), who rode throughout India from 9 November 2014 to 15 February 2015.Manigandan rode through India on a Royal Enfield Classic 500.

Don't need no stinkin' FJR.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Odd. G of the US said they won't be documenting distance records on public roads about the time people were breaking the 2k day.

Maybe a new mindset? I would also think distance traveled is very different than distance traveled in a certain time. The second makes it a race. This guy took what, 5 months? I guess if one could get the funding, he could take a year and go twice as far.

 

[Fred W]

Once you are retired, you are self funding. You just have to want to do it. Personally, I do not see the point.

 

[Ignacio]

Very interesting..........

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Carry on!

 

[wfooshee]

The average pace for that was a bit over 250 miles a day. But that's an average, and it would be EVERY STINKING DAY! Maybe take a couple days off and do some 350s for a few. How good were the roads he used? How much traffic? I know India has highways, I can see Google Maps, but I don't know what they're like, how crowded, what condition.

That's a long ways to go in just over three months!

 

[TomInPA]

They don't know Gray Ghost. 300,000 miles and never left Ohio.

 

[Bounce]

Not as many miles but also impressive was that this guy not only did his ride but he did all his movie shot setups for the documentary... solo.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903013/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

 

[puppychow]

Wrong link Bounce.

A bit early to start drinking eh?

 

[wheatonFJR]

The longest journey by motorcycle in a single country is 38,239 km (23761 miles) and was achieved by Manigandan Manjunathan (India), who rode throughout India from 9 November 2014 to 15 February 2015.

Manigandan rode through India on a Royal Enfield Classic 500.

Don't need no stinkin' FJR.

That does not seem to be the Queen's English.

What is up with this world!!??!!

 

[mcatrophy]

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Don't need no stinkin' FJR.

That does not seem to be the Queen's English.What is up with this world!!??!!

Not exactly the Queen's English, just something of a colloquialism.

Apparently a miss-quote from a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the original quote is "Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabron and ching tu madre!". The some-what simplified miss-quote is obviously "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!".

There, your lesson in etymology for today.

 

[Fred W]

Ah yes... Kind of like how most people think that Humphrey Bogart's character's line in Casablanca was: "Play it again, Sam."

He never uttered those words in that movie (which is a great one, IMO).

 

[Bounce]

Wrong link Bounce.A bit early to start drinking eh?

Crap. I had the link but I guess I didn't do a good copy key command so it used the last thing on the clipboard.

Correcting the original. Sorry.