You need to be firm on your intended cost, stating that it MAYBE between $10,000 and $15,000 doesn't put a lot of confidence in backers. Do a quick budget write up to get a better figure.
Current World Record: The longest journey on a 50cc scooter was 12,441.29 km (7,730.66 mi) by Claudio Torresan (Italy) who travelled from Shumen, Bulgaria to Almaty, Kazakhstan between 25 May and 25 November 2010.Countries Claudio travelled to included Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.Source: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/7000/longest-journey-on-a-50cc-scooter
How does this work? between 25 May and 25 November 2010. That's like 6 months.12,441km over 6 months is only 80km a day! I drive that every day in my car! How can that even be a record?
I will be making sure I do it within like 40 days
What kind of pussy $#@! are you?If you gonna break a record you have to make it somewhat difficult to achieve, otherwise no one gives a $#@!. Any muppet can drive 160km a day on a scooter for a month. Promise to do the entire trip in 5 days. It will decimate your bs accommodation costs. 5 nights in a tent costs free. You don't need to shower for 5 days and can survive on a few packets of scroggin. Holy $#@!, that is now a $#@!ing manly sounding record breaking attempt. Make it more like this and I'll throw you a tenner.
And make it a fundraising trip for African children who are starving and dying of malaria and aids. Lots of people will donate along the way, if you do it naked.
THEN KILL A CAMEL AND SLEEP INSIDE ITS CARCASS. Would anyone watch Man VS Wild if we knew Bear was sleeping in a motel eating caviar each night?Fuck no. It's the struggle we are interested in. THE STRUGGLE. We watch Man VS Wild so we can watch Bear slaughter that sleep to eat its raw meat. We live to see him wringing elephant shit into his mouth to collect its nutrients. And we are intrigued by how he drinks his own piss to stay alive. That's what we want from you. We want to watch you drink your own piss. Because you are so fucked up from dehydration on this god awful trip that you wish you never went on that its the only way you can survive.Now get back to your notepad and strip this trip down to its core. No fancy 'food'. No 'motels'. None of this 'flight' business. Catch a fucking fishing boat and cross the border from Mexico illegally. Strip this fucker to its core so we really get something interesting to watch.
Strip this fucker to its core so we really get something interesting to watch.
i had kinda hope speakman had died, what a pity
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Catch a fucking fishing boat and cross the border from Mexico illegally.
It's a cool idea dude, but it sounds like we're paying for your totally mean OE in the states?There was a bunch of Christchurch boys who did Cape Town to London on 2nd hand trail bikes. It's 14,500km. One of them got his license the day before they flew out, they made a film called African Odyssey with a single camera. I don't think they had a GPS? It's hard case.They budgeted for ~10k each, obviously Africa is a lot more dangerous, and perhaps somewhat cheaper, I think they did the trip in 3 months, they were 22 to 24ish and paid for it themselves....All of the people I know who have done motorcycle tours of far off interesting places have paid for it out of their own pocket (Mike Hyde did write a book to offset the cost, I'm not sure what side he came out on though, awesome bloke though) He also joined the 2000 mile gang or something, which is this world wide group of people who ride like 2000 miles in a day or something, you should do that too (or as near too given you're on a scooter doing 30mph tops)While we're asking for money, I need $300 for paint for my race bike, you get to pick the colour.
Wow that's a pretty intense mission in Africa, regardless of the donations I will attempt to break the world record, the donations were to help get me there faster and maybe achieve the record before the end of this year and the united states winter rolls round.As for the budget, I'm bad with those things, the GPS device and cameras I need due to recording all the routes,speed ect as proof for world records that I have done it. I could use a tent most days but there are some places you cant pitch a tent due to safety reasons, I put that at 3k because I didn't know where I would be and not sure what places cost to stay, but they are all approx i mean it could be only 1k.I'm not going to buy the cheapest scooter due to the thing wont handle it , I don't think the expensive one will too, it is a good idea on how to learn to fix scooters tho, I did ride a 50cc scooter from Wellington to Auckland once and the scooter made it and the scooter already had 10,000k on the clock.The flights was an estimate as I don't know when I will be doing the record and I'm only booking a one-way trip as I don't know the date I would finish the attempt.
Well good on you then, work hard save up and you'll make it.You really need to do some more research dude, you have a fairly good idea of a route planned out, you know roughly how far you can make it in a day, so you ought to know roughly where you'll be staying, perhaps you could call them now and enquire about costs and facilities? You might also want to cross reference cities that will have access to spare parts for your scooter and factor that into your scooter decision, though most of your consumables are going to be aftermarket. You're also going to want to know how to jet a carburettor too. also look at the maintenance schedule for the bike and halve it, cause you'll be ringing the thing out all day every day, which can in some cases increase longevity (most wear is done on a cold engine, thus if your engine is never cold it'll never wear - right?)I've toured in NZ and spent 10 hours in the blistering sun in kaikoura trying to find a chain for a 87 cbr250 on a Sunday. Are you going to buy a 2 stroke or a 4 stroke?
Cheers for advice, I will be looking into towns that i will make sure I stop in and make arrangements for places for me to stay once I have a date, I was looking at getting a 2 Stroke as its what I have now and find they are good on hills over 4 stroke in saying that 2 strokes engines tend to be fragile and wear out quicker than 4 stroke, I will speak to some moped stores here in Wellington and get some advice from them, i have always owned 2 stroke and the bike I have at the moment has about 25,000km on the clock and is still going.
Reliability of 2 stroke over 4 is an interesting thought exercise , I can't say which way I'd go to be honest.You've done 25,000km of less than 1 hour a day 5 days a week amirite?You're going to be doing at least 5 hours a day at full throttle, way out of spec...should be interesting to see how the engine wears...haha you could go to honda and say "suzuki say your scooter cant do 14,000km straight" then go to suzuki and say "honda say your scooter cant do blah blah" hahaha no dont.
I don't think 2-strokes are permitted for use in the US anymore?
