Wowzers! Thats intense!

IconoclasT wrote:
] WAY2GO!
]
] MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. motorcyclist made the
] 5,632-mile trek from the northernmost road in Alaska to the
] southernmost tip of Florida in 100 hours and set a
] transcontinental record certified by the "Iron Butt
] Association" of bike enthusiasts.
] "I'm a little tired ... a little bit bruised," biker Gary
] Eagan said by phone from Key West, Florida, on Tuesday, a day
] after finishing the journey on his Ducati Multistrada.
] He bested the old transcontinental "Iron Butt" record of 114
] hours and 49 minutes, set last year by a BMW rider from
] Maryland.
] A few hours after starting his solo journey on a gravel road
] in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a truck forced Eagan off the road and
] his motorcycle flipped over into the tundra, breaking his
] windshield, one rearview mirror, auxiliary fuel tank and
] shearing off the saddlebag containing his spare clothes.

RE: U.S. Biker Sets 'Iron-Butt' Record Across Continent