http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cross Canada trip reaches St John's (aka The End) en Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:34:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13450#post-165814 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:11:57 +0000 chdot 165814@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"That's 4000 trips over the Meadows!"</p> <p>When you put it like that, doesn't seem far! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13450#post-165810 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:30:11 +0000 LaidBack 165810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't find the original topic on this epic Nazca Quetzal ride from BC to Newfoundland....</p> <p><em>Forum search is bit odd sometime.<br /> </em><br /> Anyway they made it and hauled up the <strike>union flag</strike> saltire at Mile 0.</p> <p>See here.</p> <p>Turns out Newfoundland has hills ;-)<br /> SRD will confirm this no doubt...</p> <p><em>"After 926km and over 26,000ft of ascent since we left Port Aux Basques, we arrived at St John's."</em></p> <p>Whole journey was this.<br /> <em>"Our final total was 8,192km or just over a fifth of the circumference of the world at the equator. Canada is wide."</em></p> <p>So these guys have now done more miles on a recumbent tandem than me. That's 4000 trips over the Meadows!</p> <p><a href="http://canadiantandem.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-end.html" rel="nofollow">http://canadiantandem.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-end.html</a> </p>