New scooter riding world record set in Melbourne

[GSVR]

New scooter riding world record set in Melbourne
April 28th, 2005

http://www.mcnews.com.au/ has this story about someone on a Honda Today Scooter.

According to Honda s National Service Manager, Greg Snart who managed the technical support, Julio covered 809 kilometres over the 24 hour period and had an average fuel consumption of 32.36 kilometres per litre on the 50cc machine.

24 hours doesn't sound that great to me maybee someone here should approach Honda and show these Ozzys.

[Hitcher]

If Honda gave me a scooter I'd do more than that distance in 24 hours. 809km is a rolling average of only 34kmh. Even on a 50cc scooter I reckon I could average 60kmh, which is 1440km. A 70kmh rolling average is all that's required to complete a Grand Challenge. Now there's a thought...