A few days ago as I was reading up on the Land's End to John O'Groats trip and the records that have been made (eg in 1990 Andy Wilkinson cycled 874mi from Land's End to John O'Groats in one day 21 hours, two minutes and 18 seconds. Pauline Strong holds the woman's cyling record of two days, six hours, 49 minutes and 45 seconds. Steve Gilkes has done it several times on a motorised toiled; another used a supermarket trolley. It's been done in a battery-powered Sinclair C5 in 80 hours and on roller skates in 9.5 days. - from Lonely Planet's Cycling Britain 2001).
It then crossed my mind about how fun it would to be on a motorised sofa - like the one the MechE's attempted to build for sleeping bag drive-in when I was at the University of Alberta (for those who don't know about it - the sofa got as far as having wheels, it was finding a motor and the time to finish it that stalled the project - then graduation).
Okay, so that is not really all out of this world. But one of the cycle training routes I have done is litteraly out of this world. I cycled diameter of the solar system twice in under 3.5 hours (that is a total of 44 km on a 530,000,000 / 1 scale model of the solar system). Below are photos of my interplanetary journey (not in order of visiting, but from Sun to Pluto. To see the photos in order taken, along with others on the Taunton-Bridgwater Canal, see my photo albums).
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