Bicycle geohash achievement
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The achievement can be claimed when you reach a geohash by bike on the correct day, and take a photo of yourself containing the necessary proof. Using a car, public transport or any other vehicle that is not entirely powered by yourself is not allowed. Monocycles, trikes and scooters may also belong to this achievement, as long as no electric skateboard is used.
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Winners
The following Geohashers have supplied proof and have won this award, (in descending order of total distance cycled). Please only mention your longest (total distance) ride. Use Bicycle geohashes to list the shorter ones in order to tidy up this award page.
| Geohasher(s) | Coordinates | Distance (there, back) | Notes | |
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| Arvid | 2008-10-04 Tubbergen and Groningen, Netherlands | 339km (31.2, 141.7, 166.5) | Multihash on 52 6 (my home graticule) and 53 6 (Groningen). Distances home->hash1->hash2->home. | |
| thepiguy | 2008-09-01 Pender Harbor, BC | 237km | Went 8.5km by kayak too! | |
| Reinhard | 2009-05-30 Babow, Germany | 158 km (25, 133) | Combined with a nice trip along the Gurkenradweg (Spreewald). | |
| Ekorren | 2009-09-28 Reutlingen and Langenau, Germany. | 156.28km (ca. 15, 121, 20) | Over the mountains even. Double hash on the Stuttgart and Augsburg graticules, back from the Donau valley by train. Longest 100% bike round trip was 84.70km (38.38/46.32). | |
| Manu | 2009-05-30 Babow, Germany | 152 km (25, 127) | Combined with a nice trip along the Gurkenradweg (Spreewald). | |
| Gabriel | 2009-06-25 Borås, Sweden | 116km (57, 59) | 25°C and direct sun. Conclusion: Big water consumption! | |
| Robyn | 2008-09-27 Everson, Washington | 114.9km (86km, 29km) | Finally I didn't take another form of transport (ferry/bus) partway to the geohash, so it counts | |
| Juja | 2009-05-07 Dittersdorf, Germany | 101km (46km there, 55km back) | All by bike and back, with a little food detour. The very best thing to do with your day off. | |
| relet | 2008-08-23 Güstrow, Germany | 97km (82km, 12km to station, 3km home) | Return by train. | |
| dawidi | 2008-06-15 Nuremberg, Germany | 95km (80km, 15km) | returned by train from Amberg to Regensburg | |
| Tom Viza | 2008-05-24 Sheffield, UK | 92km (~45, 4, 43) | Distance includes detour for fish & chips | |
| Elbie | 2009-04-25 Victoria, British Columbia | 91km (~46 km, ~45 km) | Does not include taking the ferry to Vancouver Island and back, and bussing through the George Massey Tunnel | |
| ElSupreme | 2008-06-07 Atlanta, Georgia | ~ 90km (69km, 21km) | Did not make the entire return trip | |
| Jonatan | 2009-05-10 Göteborg, Sweden | ~ 85km (40km, 45km) | ||
| Kliment | 2008-05-31 51 6 | 68km | ||
| Zubenelgenubi | 2008-07-26 Newark, NJ | 66 km (28 km, 38 km) | With the point in the middle of a residential street (speed limit 25 mph), this also made for a Speed Racer geohash. | |
| Zigdon | 2008-06-07 San Francisco, CA | ~64km | ||
| Tom | 2008-06-22 Budapest, Hungary | ~64km (31km, 33km) | I rode all the way. (A short detour on the way back to get some ice-cream.) Photo proof here, my path here | |
| Danatar | 2008-09-20 Würzburg, Germany | 60.2km (29.7km, 30.5km) | Took a longer but much better and faster road on the return trip. | |
| El muerte verde | 2009-08-04 Paderborn, Germany | 60km (27.5km, 32.5km) | Most of those streets I never cycled before trusting completely a GPS I had never used before either. | |
| Benjw | 2009-04-23 52 -0 and 52 0 | 59.8 km (25.5, 28.3, 6.0) | Double hash; distances are home -> 52,-0 -> 52,0 -> home. Also retro-hashed 2009-04-03 52 0 on the way home. | |
| Bill^2 | 2008-06-22 Detroit, Michigan | ~58km | 18 miles each way, hope to post stop-motion video of the ride there, taken at 1 frame every 10 seconds from handlebar-mounted camera (sample with other riders here.) | |
| Hermann | 2008-05-26 Hamburg, Germany | 55.5km (23.5km, 22km) | ||
| Kriechstrom | 2008-09-06 Baesweiler, Germany | 53.7 km | Proof supplied at this page. Never trust the weather forecast! | |
| Ben and Grace | 2008-06-03 41 -71 | ~50 km and ~15 km, respectively | ||
| Evil Monkey | 2008-06-15 Christchurch, New Zealand | 48 km (18 km one-way) | The difference comes from some mountain biking I did before going home. | |
| Madmaxie | 2008-12-15 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 45.32 km (25 km there, 20 km back) | Way back was much quicker, stuck to Baltimore Pike the whole way, straight shot home. | |
| Brett | 2008-08-09 Champaign, Illinois | 44 km (18 km, 26 km) | ||
| shenron and noamsml | 2008-06-01 Detroit, Michigan | ~40 km | No photographic proof, but can be verified by the people who they met with when they geohashed | |
| myka | 2009-02-14 Melbourne East, Australia | 39.71 km | My bike enjoying a view of the lake I found | |
| StrategosMike | 2008-06-28 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin | 39 km | ||
| davidc | 2009-08-02 Berlin, Germany | 37 km | ||
| Floffe | 2008-06-15 Linköping, Sweden | 34km (17km, 17km) | No picture of me with bike due to only having a phone camera | |
| Felix | 2008-06-03 Hamburg, Germany | 33km | ||
| CaptainLJS | 2008-06-28, Boston | 32.5km (16.25km, 16.25km) | Proof is coming once other's pictures show up, ask in IRC. | |
| Sethant | 2008-07-03, Denver | 30 km (15km, 15km) | I busted a spoke on the return trip, but the bike made it all the way! | |
| Sara | 2009-08-07, Springfield, Massachusetts | 30 km (15km, 15km) | New to cycling, walked the bike for part of the way. | |
| Koepfel | 2009-04-05 48 8 | 27km | tracklog of the 12km-ride there available on the expedition page. The 27km also include the ride to a nearby geocache and the way back, on which we took a different route. | |
| Woodveil | 2009-01-22 Atlanta, GA | 25 km | There and back. | |
| Mark and C-Dog | 2009-09-09 44 -92 | 23.6 km | Tron-like route | |
| H.M.Thunder | 2008-06-06 51 5 | 23km | ||
| Tuttleturtle42 | 2008-06-11 Boston, MA | 19.5 km | ||
| Djomp | 2008-06-20 Sheffield, United Kingdom | ~16km | ||
| KarMann | 2008-11-02 Tucson, Arizona | 14.7 km (11.8 km, 2.9 km before it got too dark) | bicycle in the gully | |
| [[User:SKeaLoT|SKeaLoT] | 2009-10-29 Curicó, Chile | 14.7 km (7.47 km, 7.23 km) | ||
| Baerenfell | 2009-06-05 München, Germany | 12.9 km (about 7 km, 5.9 km) | ||
| NWoodruff | 2008-09-06 Atlanta, Georgia | 11.16km(5.58km, 5.58km) | picture of bicycle distance is in miles not Kilometers |
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| Thomcat | 2008-06-28 Seattle, Washington | 10.6km | photo and collected Pub Geohash on the same date | |
| hbrx | 2008-06-25 Oslo, Norway | 9,6 km | 5 km there, 4,6 km back (left from work, returned home) | |
| Shriver | 2008-06-28 Seattle, Washington | 6.6km | Photographic Evidence | |
| StephenEdmonds | 2008-09-06 Melbourne, Asutralia | 6.3km (1.6km, 4.7km) | Rode directly there, took scenic way home Photo of GPS on bicycle Photo of bicycle on way back to show mounted GPS (forgot at location) | |
| Benjammn | 2008-08-10 Havelock, North Carolina | 1.2km there, same back | Photographic Evidence |
