| Date: | 09/01/2002 |
| Title: | one year on the road |
| Location: | yaounde, cameroon |
| Text: | km 70'974 today it's exactly one year ago that i left switzerland. time goes fast!!! last night i celebrated the event with a good bottle of wine and a can of cheap caviar. for those who like statistics some information about that past year: kilometers: 27'236 (average 74.5 km/day) gasoline: ~1900 litres (average 5 litres/day) tyres: 4 backtyres 2 fronttyres (average 6809/3434 km per tyre and 0.0109/0.0054 per day) punctures: 0 (apart from one handmade puncture while changing an innertube) falling off the bike: 10 (2 times tipping over while standing on uneven ground / 8 times on sand). (average 0.0273/day) countries: 18 (average 20.277 days/country / 1513 km/country) bordercrossings: 34 (average 1.88 crossings/country) kids throwing stones: 2 times running out of fuel: 0 bribes: 3 times / ~15 usd (average 0.83 usd/country, 0.0005 usd/km, 0.26 usd/backtyre) bottles of beer: ***no reliable data avaliable*** (***/day, ***/country, ***/km, ***/kids throwing stones) the big question therefore goes unanswered: who consumes more liquid, the bike or the driver |