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Sounds like a very ambitious timeline. 4-6 months for Anchorage - Prudhoe Bay - Ushuaia - Buenos Aires. I'm sure it can be done but your basically just rushing through the different countries. If that's your thing, okay. If you want to experience some of the culture and enjoy some activities other than biking I'd plan more time (if that's a possibility) or less distance.
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"The second (world record) was completed on 22 September 2003, riding the length of the Americas from Deadhorse, Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, United States to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina in 35 days and breaking the previous record by over 12 days."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_and_Julia_Sanders
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well, at this point i really havent given a lot of thought, the 4-6 months were a rough estimate.
prudhoe bay, as i said, may be out of the question depending on the winter but only time will tell that.
i will have to rush through some parts, that much im aware of, it just comes with the timeframe. most likely this will be mexico and central america as that areas are those that interest me the least.
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dude, how many miles or km do you want to ride a day?
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I really cant answer that. On my long distance tours so far ive usually done stretches between 300km and 800km ... alltough everything past 500km is a major chore.
comfort zone is definitely towards the lower end of that spectrum and route from north to south will probably cover 25000km(actually boggles my mind to say this ... 25000km ... ) or so. would make for around 80 riding days.
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after giving it some more tought and reading up on the climate tables im acutally considering to start to the east, make it to Vladivostok by the end of July, over to Anchorage, make it to Panama by the end of September, be in Chile by October. Enjoy Summer in South America, ship back from Buenos Aires(or as far south as possible) to Vienna.
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My friend´s a tour guide, and he and his clients rode Alaska-TDF in just over 2 months back in 2008. I thought that was a bit hurried but they did it, and said they enjoyed it – I´m not certain, that I would have enjoyed it at that pace! But yes, 4-6 months is definitely do-able, even though some may say it is still hasty. Six months to do the Americas, would likely be quite okay for me (I spent 6 months to go from Europe to Australia, 34.000km, didn´t have time to do absolutely everything I would´ve wanted along the way, but did not feel stressed by the schedule either).
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wipe-out
Sounds like a very ambitious timeline. 4-6 months for Anchorage - Prudhoe Bay - Ushuaia - Buenos Aires. I'm sure it can be done but your basically just rushing through the different countries. If that's your thing, okay. If you want to experience some of the culture and enjoy some activities other than biking I'd plan more time (if that's a possibility) or less distance.
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I complete agree with this!
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