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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list
--> ... [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion (add yours): This is very worthy of inclusion!
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list
--> ... [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion (add yours): Abso-flucking-lutely!
--> ... opinion (add yours):
--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list, at the same time this record is very, very easy to break.
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Utter bollocks.My lifetime average stands at 5.. opinion (add yours): 4 rides per day, and I absolutely hate days with 7,8, 9 or more rides! What's the flipping use of having to wait 31 times between rides?
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--> Frank's opinion: we cannot include the 52 people claim before we have a discussing weather a train full of refugees, who do not have to pay for their transportation - humanitarian help - may be considered hitch-hiking. The harsh it is for these people, such transportation meets some of the key hitch-hiking criteria: getting a ride without paying for it and by asking for it from otherwise strangers.
--> ... [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion (add yours): Once was part of a group of 12 people that got a ride in an empty bus. The 52 people claim is iffy, and as for refugees juming on trains? Please pass me a bucket, that has '''nothing''' to do with hitchhiking, even though it might share some of the characteristics!
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--> Frank's opinion: sure it ain't a world record c'mon - at the same time if nobody claims more - then why not. I think that driving the driver is some kind of achievement ;).
--> ... [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion (add yours): I think it might warrant inclusion as it's relatively rare.
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--> Frank's opinion: funny but irrelevant "record"
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Sigh... opinion (add yours):
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--> Frank's opinion: funny, but relevance is sufficient?
--> ... [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion (add yours): Definitely, and although [[Singapore]] springs to mind, I'm not sure how many others could be included.
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Finally, some claims that are clearly not relevant (not all included here)
- Jan Geleijns for biggest hitch-hiking distance within the Netherlands: 175.000 km (very, very rough estimation) in 25 years time, submitted by Frank Verhart...
--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list
 
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: I think having records per country could be quite interesting.
- Highest average ride speed in Poland: 177.8 kmh. By Frank Verhart
--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list. However, I've posted this fact in a Polish hitch-hikers FB Group "Autostopowicze czyli MY" which had about 15-20 answers from others who had fast rides in PL. The topic has been removed by the admins though. Many hitchers have had fast rides, but very few accurately register their rides, judging from the answers, so that very few reliable claims for average speed are made. Most of the hitch-hikers probably estimated the average by the occasional look at the average speed. Some mentioned highest driving speeds of up to 270-280 kmh, which nobody surpassed, so that highest speeds listed on our World Record page stand out compared to these experiences in Poland. As for the claimed averages, they went up to 200-220 kmh, often from or to the borders. It's unclear if these were full rides or high speed sections of rides (which means, that the ride average is (a lot?) lower --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Again, the inclusion of tabulated country-specific records would be very interesting. - Anja Velika i : I know a girl who hitched a ride with another friend, two bikes, two bike trailers and two dogs
--> Frank's opinion: randomness, not a record
 
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Tony Hawks hitched with a fridge... A Dutch guy with a caravan. [[Ken Welsh]] had an entry in "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe" for "Weirdest ride"...
--[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
Hi Robert, before i answer i would ask you to participate in a constructive discussion here. Insultings and overreaction will lead nowhere. I try to react on your posting in a respectable way and i also ask you to show a bit more respect in this further discussion. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:30, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
:If you can use proper English, every browser has a spelling checker nowadays, I might. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
Hey,
32 rides in one day are actually quite much and an reasonable achievement.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
: The record 32 is very easy to break, you only have to hit the road for 24hrs with the purpose of doing it, and I expect that it can be done in just a few hours if you just pick the right spot and hitch back and forth every time 1 km (e.g. between traffic lights or busstops). I don't mind it's inclusion that much. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST) :I am not a member of $uckerberg's Cesspit/Faecesbucket, and such idiot discussions show that I'm right. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
"Further reference" makes sense to me in this article and can stay.
Actually listing all the times from each year is not a record at all. Furthermore i still dont think anyone is interested in it. If you want to keep it, then keep the actual record time. But for a general overview in this article, i would exclude all records that are regarding to a specific route, just because it is getting too much and you can theoretically put and route in it, you want.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
:: The GBOR hitchhiking records were top of the pops in the pre-internet times, times when hitch-hiking was a tad less of a society-marginal activity and hence these records deserve a lot of respect. Land's End to John O Goats was then true such thing that hitch-hikers would like to beat in order to be recorded in the new edition of the GBOR. If we every would like to see hitch-hiking records come back to the GBOR, I think we should at least keep them in here! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
The 24 hour entry of you Robert is included in the new list. No need to have it twice in the article. I furthermore don´t see a point to just copy paste the old article under the new one. Maybe you want to explain your intention with this edit. :)
Mirans record was not on the page, Before you put those lies in the world, please have a look at the changes. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
 
:: You are right about that, I only put it in the news section, and forgot to later add it to the records page. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
: And finally, only ass-backward Britsh and Americans use am and pm times, the rest of the world is quite happy with 24 hour times!
::Prino, we're all volunteering here and putting our spare time in here. Please be polite, no-one wants to see behaviour like this publicly at a volunteering project. It just puts people off from editing content. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 09:33, 21 September 2015 (CEST) ::: I know, but that's not a reason to not use internationally accepted date and time formats, or proper English! Every flipping browser has spell-check dictionaries in every language (except of course stuff from Redmond), so it's very easy to use them. Dittor with another of my pet peeves, gas versus petrol: in Europe we use petrol and get it in petrol stations, in the US they use gas and get it in gas stations! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)
== no hedaline No Headline ==World Records related to hitchhiking has been removed from guiness Guinness book years ago. why Why shouldn't we start a new list? what What do you think? how How can somebody prove a world record? any Any ideas? --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 07:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC):we We could allow people to claim a record, until someone else overrides it? Persons should be in our trust-networks for matter of knowing it is true or not. --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 14:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
== Proving records... ==
That one seems a little odd - is it in hitchhiker's popular culture, or why is it there instead of maybe North Cape to the Algarve or to Sicily or to the Bosporus?--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 18:50, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
:It is very odd indeed, [[Faro]] to [[Riga]] had a race, so that would be a more worthy inclusion... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 
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