Records

Some record info, my own and some other interesting anecdotes, just for your entertainment....

• Largest amount of liquid in one day: 28 liters. Taklamakan Desert summer 1997.
• Cheapest Hotel: 12,5 cents, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1997.
• Longest period without a shower: 72 days. Xizang/Tibet, winter 1997.
• Highest altitude with my bike fully loaded: 5585m, Semo Pass, winter 1997.
• Longest period without seeing a human being: 9 days, Gar Valley summer, 1999.
• Longest uphill: 728m-5119m, 150km, Dholalghat-YarlungShan/Tong pass, winter 1997.
• Most aggressive dog: Chased me for 35km, Qamdo area, spring 1996. More about this!
• Longest distance with full load: 379km, Sweden 2001.
• Maximum meters climbed in one day (full load): 3100m Colombia 1998.
• Lowest number of flats: "Schizotour" 0 during 16 months.
• Highest number of flats: 18 in one day, China-Nepal,1996.
• Longest time as a "non-stop cyclist" (of the ones I've personally met). When I met him: 13 years, 220 000km, 131 countries. (He is still on the road, just passed 400 000km), Ramchandra, India.
• Short-term cyclist: Mattias, 50 minutes (Islamabad airport-central Islamabad). "The traffic is insane here and it's hot...Screw this!
• Heaviest load (without trailer): over 80kg, Carl, Canada.
• Lightest load: Josh, one repairpatch+pump+Visacard (West Palm Beach-Seattle).
• Non-stopper: Tom Toffler: one break day from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego (had to weld the bike in Costa Rica after being hit by car).
• Most desperate for legend status: Norwegian biker one a one-gear post bicycle from Venezuela, dressed in the Venezuelan postal workers uniform, with post panniers for his gear.
• Musician: Bart, traveling with an altsaxophone complete with metal box.
• Music fanatic: Stein, 120 cassettes, four speakers and loads of batteries.
• Most practical?: Chris. Using his stack of newspapers for: 1. Sleeping mat. 2. For toilet businesses. 3. For making campfires. 4. For travel literature. Complete with a newspaper stand (up-side-down turned rack) on top of the rest of the gear on the back rack.
• Most practical 2?: Chris. Rolls up his tent without taking some of the gear out. "Why bother? I have to put the stuff in there  tonight anyway".
• Most affluent: Alex. Tweed suit and attaché case. "You gotta travel with some sort of class, even on a bike".
• Longest time on the road: Frank Van Rijn and Heinz Stucke. Both have been cycling around the world for over 30 years and none of them have any plans to stop.
• "I'm-going-to-cycle-every-meter-fanatic"1: Johann. Buried bike and gear, to hitch back to a town where he could find spare parts.
• "I'm-going-to-cycle-every-meter-fanatic"2. Jorg. Adamant about going back 350 km to a tunnel he wasn't allowed to cycle in. "I know it's just a matter of 50 meters, but it's a principle"!
• Most angry comment when having a flat: "I hate cycling, I hate the whole fucking human race, I hate the whole fucking world!" I don't think the person who said it would be very happy if I revealed her name here...
• Most positive: Albert. "Rain is just liquid sun"!