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    1 google says that there's 8 million motorcycles in the US

    2 and all of them can carry enough gasoline to cover 1000 miles without stopping. 3 Some can manage twice that. 4 Some can average 100 mph when there's no cops to worry about, too. Think about what that means. No place in the lower 48 states. is out of reach of millions of people, with just one night's ride and maybe 5 one night's hike. You're not nearly as "remote" as you think you are. Google also says 6 15-20 million bicycles are sold in the US EVERY YEAR. So there's 100 million of them around, A lot of them are sized for little kids, of course, But the US, all 3200 miiles of it, has been crossed in 8 days on a bicycle, by a number of people. With a gel seat cover, 7 anyone can, in a week or 2, get hardened in to pedal 100 miles per night, on relatively flat terrain. For $40 each, you can get solid rubber tires, so a flat is never an issue, either. 8 Millions of people can reach you in a week or 2 and they WILL be trying to do so, too, if shtf.
    1 Unless the stat is from a years old search, no they didn't
    2 Not a single one can w/o modification which may decrease safe handling and increase danger to the rider
    3 See #2 and at least double the safety factors and quadruple your BS factor
    4 A bike either can or cannot maintain 100mph. Average is determined by the operator, not the machine
    5 I ride my bike, not take it on hikes but you do you
    6 Holy shit, you got sumpthin right, congrats!
    7 I didn't realize a gel seat heals the disabled, how come you're the only one that knows?
    8 Well, I'm not cleaning the toilet or feeding them.

    Thanks, that was fun. Tell another story ? ? ?
     

    ZX9RCAM

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    1 Unless the stat is from a years old search, no they didn't
    2 Not a single one can w/o modification which may decrease safe handling and increase danger to the rider
    3 See #2 and at least double the safety factors and quadruple your BS factor
    4 A bike either can or cannot maintain 100mph. Average is determined by the operator, not the machine
    5 I ride my bike, not take it on hikes but you do you
    6 Holy shit, you got sumpthin right, congrats!
    7 I didn't realize a gel seat heals the disabled, how come you're the only one that knows?
    8 Well, I'm not cleaning the toilet or feeding them.

    Thanks, that was fun. Tell another story ? ? ?

    Thank you for doing this.
    I actually quit reading after the "1000 mile" statement.
    I didn't realize all the crazy in the rest of the post.
     

    Wolfwood

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    Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop
    You know the place
    well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy

    Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning
    My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast

    Awww - Big bowl of sauerkraut
    Every single morning
    It was driving me crazy

    I said to my mom
    I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?"
    And my dear, sweet mother
    She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train
    And she leaned right down next to me
    And she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU"
    And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth
    And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old

    That's when I swore that someday
    Someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place
    Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer
    And the towels are oh so fluffy
    Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long
    And anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel

    and all of them can carry enough gasoline to cover 1000 miles without stopping.
    Some can manage twice that. Some can average 100 mph when there's no cops to worry about, too.
    Think about what that means. No place in the lower 48 states. is out of reach of millions of people,
    with just one night's ride and maybe one night's hike. You're not nearly as "remote" as you think you are.

    Google also says 15-20 million bicycles are sold in the US EVERY YEAR. So there's 100 million of them around,

    A lot of them are sized for little kids, of course, But the US, all 3200 miiles of it, has been crossed in 8 days on a
    bicycle, by a number of people. With a gel seat cover, anyone can, in a week or 2, get hardened in to pedal 100 miles per night,
    on relatively flat terrain. For $40 each, you can get solid rubber tires, so a flat is never an issue, either.
    Millions of people can reach you in a week or 2 and they WILL be trying to do so, too, if shtf.

    Wacka wacka doodoo yeah

    Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true
    Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest
    To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt
    I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize
    That's right, a first class one-way ticket to

    Albuquerque

    A lot of them are sized for little kids, of course,
    But the US, all 3200 miiles of it, has been crossed in 8 days on a bicycle,
    by a number of people. With a gel seat cover, anyone can, in a week or 2,
    get hardened in to pedal 100 miles per night, on relatively flat terrain.
    For $40 each, you can get solid rubber tires, so a flat is never an issue, either.

    Millions of people can reach you in a week or 2 and they WILL be trying to do so, too, if shtf.

    Oh yeah
    You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before
    And I gotta tell ya, it was really great
    Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor
    And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time
    The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts
    And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore
    And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out
    And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside
    And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died
    Except for me
    You know why?

    'Cause I had my tray table up
    And my seat back in the full upright position

    So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage
    I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days
    Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag
    And my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball
    And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel
    But finally I arrived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn
    Where the towels are oh so fluffy
    And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna
    It's OK, they're clean


    Turns out this is just an excerpt from Wierd Al's

    "Albuquerque"
     

    Wolfwood

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    i trimmed out most of the lyrics because i am unsure of the character limit and it is quite long
     

    Aus_Schwaben

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    I did 1000 miles in a day ONCE on a motorcycle. But it certainly wasn’t done without stopping. And after my last fuel stop, I could barely lift the bike off the kickstand.
    I did 600+ miles in one day on a Suzuki GT-380 (two stroke). When I got off at the end of the day, I staggered as if I had been at sea for a couple of months.
     

    Hoji

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    Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop
    You know the place
    well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy

    Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning
    My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast

    Awww - Big bowl of sauerkraut
    Every single morning
    It was driving me crazy

    I said to my mom
    I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?"
    And my dear, sweet mother
    She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train
    And she leaned right down next to me
    And she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU"
    And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth
    And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old

    That's when I swore that someday
    Someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place
    Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer
    And the towels are oh so fluffy
    Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long
    And anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel

    and all of them can carry enough gasoline to cover 1000 miles without stopping.
    Some can manage twice that. Some can average 100 mph when there's no cops to worry about, too.
    Think about what that means. No place in the lower 48 states. is out of reach of millions of people,
    with just one night's ride and maybe one night's hike. You're not nearly as "remote" as you think you are.

    Google also says 15-20 million bicycles are sold in the US EVERY YEAR. So there's 100 million of them around,

    A lot of them are sized for little kids, of course, But the US, all 3200 miiles of it, has been crossed in 8 days on a
    bicycle, by a number of people. With a gel seat cover, anyone can, in a week or 2, get hardened in to pedal 100 miles per night,
    on relatively flat terrain. For $40 each, you can get solid rubber tires, so a flat is never an issue, either.
    Millions of people can reach you in a week or 2 and they WILL be trying to do so, too, if shtf.

    Wacka wacka doodoo yeah

    Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true
    Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest
    To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt
    I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize
    That's right, a first class one-way ticket to

    Albuquerque

    A lot of them are sized for little kids, of course,
    But the US, all 3200 miiles of it, has been crossed in 8 days on a bicycle,
    by a number of people. With a gel seat cover, anyone can, in a week or 2,
    get hardened in to pedal 100 miles per night, on relatively flat terrain.
    For $40 each, you can get solid rubber tires, so a flat is never an issue, either.

    Millions of people can reach you in a week or 2 and they WILL be trying to do so, too, if shtf.

    Oh yeah
    You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before
    And I gotta tell ya, it was really great
    Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor
    And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time
    The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts
    And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore
    And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out
    And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside
    And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died
    Except for me
    You know why?

    'Cause I had my tray table up
    And my seat back in the full upright position

    So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage
    I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days
    Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag
    And my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball
    And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel
    But finally I arrived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn
    Where the towels are oh so fluffy
    And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna
    It's OK, they're clean


    Turns out this is just an excerpt from Wierd Al's

    "Albuquerque"
    Oh damn you. Sitting here with a busted rib and I could not stop reading that and laughing.
     

    HCS

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    I did 1000 miles in a day ONCE on a motorcycle. But it certainly wasn’t done without stopping. And after my last fuel stop, I could barely lift the bike off the kickstand.

    best i ever did was 800 miles in a day,
    late in the evening, my @$$ was sore and the sign flashing Hotel / Bar was too much to resist

    actually I have done a few 800 mile days in my time, but got to where I wanted to enjoy the trip, not push it to my limits
     
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