Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by nkrisc on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:01AM
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> It really isn't though. If you take that challenge literally, you can just book a cruise ship and take a folding bicycle along.
You could, but that’s not going to impress anybody when you tell them about it.
People do this kind of thing for their own personal satisfaction, or to impress other people. That accomplishes neither.
Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by JKCalhoun on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:02AM
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> The traditional answer to that is that you have to pass through a pair of antipodal points.
Tedious.
I would be happy defining it as a journey greater than 40,000 km since that constitutes the circumference of the earth.
Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by teh_klev on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:47AM
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> Every version of "cycling around the world" I've heard seems a bit unsatisfying somehow.
Well make up your own version, no-one's stopping you.
Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by lmm on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:08PM
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That's why I bring it up for discussion :). Maybe there's a satisfying standard that I've missed.
Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by dTal on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:45PM
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Thanks for replying. I've no idea why you're getting downvoted. I do understand the drive towards some kind of exterior criterion to "keep you honest", and I didn't know about the antipodal criterion - which seems too stringent if I'm honest! I don't think I'd begrudge someone the accomplishment if they made it all the way around a single hemisphere.
Re:India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
by twic on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:35PM
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> The traditional answer to that is that you have to pass through a pair of antipodal points.
Really? I believe that for ocean circumnavigation the rule is that you had to cross the equator, which rules out polar shenanigans.
The traditional answer to that is that you have to pass through a pair of antipodal points.
> Thing is, are you doing it because it's an amazing experience, or because you want to have satisfied some arbitrary criteria?
I find having a goal makes for a more fulfilling experience, and can help me push myself a bit further than I would otherwise. I'm planning to ride around Shikoku starting in about a week, and I'm glad there's an official organisation with a set of rules to follow for that (collect stamps at these given places).
Every version of "cycling around the world" I've heard seems a bit unsatisfying somehow. To the point that I think maybe aiming for Shanghai-Paris or similar might be more fun.
> And quite frankly, if you manage to pass through every line of longitude while lugging a bicycle the whole way, I don't give two hoots how many boat rides it took. That's heroic.
It really isn't though. If you take that challenge literally, you can just book a cruise ship and take a folding bicycle along.