Fighting Talk!
Well if anyone was in any doubts about whether he was interested in what Tarzan was doing, I think we now know.
Kurt should be able to respond to an exent in that is a very good 12hr TT rider. I don't think he has anything like the long term staying power that Teethgrinder has though, so I'm going to believe Steve's assessment is pretty much how it will play out.
That's what I was thinking. Tarzan seems to have decided to do this almost at the last minute based on one year of riding 25,000 miles with a reasonable amount of support - and he appears basically to be a drifter who does nothing but ride. If you read his ride reports they're full of incident and excitement, with a lot of making things up as he goes along (
http://tarzan-rides.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/colorado-high-country-1200k.html). Steve's 25,000 mile year was combined with a full-time job and no in-person support. His ride reports were essentially "I got up, I rode 600k, I went to bed. It was fun." And he's been pushing for this record for at least 30 of his 40 years. Tarzan first heard about it 3 years ago.
Whatever ride plan Tarzan had to start with, it's gone out of the window. Whereas Steve is just riding long days well within himself - a 95bpm heart rate is what most of us have just standing still - Tarzan seems to be pushing himself a lot in the saddle, and also tiring himself out by taking very long journeys in his motorhome in search of better roads.
I wouldn't be surpriseddd to see Tarzan
steve abraham @steve_abraham74 · 2h2 hours ago
