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[url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/05/82-year-old-become-first-person-britain-cycle-one-million-miles/ ]This rather impressive gentleman[/url] should have just managed it! Very, very impressive (rides a Holdsworth too which might interest Planet X).
He lives fairly local to me and I've seen him out riding regularly for the last 30 years - he's got a proper old-school position, riding on the drops on deep, skinny bars and slowly turning over a big gear - like something out the 1950s.
Amazing stuff. I have only managed 140,000 km according to Garmin. Have no way of knowing how far I went on my Raleigh Chopper in the 70s.
That's an average of just under 15,000 miles per year for 67 years!!
Chapeau indeed sir 🤩
Its amazing how the miles just mount up and a salutory lesson to a lot of people that it's not all about the bike and the kit and looking the part and Strava.
What a legend.
That's incredible, just imagine how many slices of cake he's eaten in a lifetime!
That is some doing my mates dad is 86 and the other day got to half a million which is something else but that guy fair play to him great stuff.
that is definitely an achievement for sure 😳 🚴
fair play indeed to the gentleman 👍
If its not on Strava it never happened đŸ™‚
Quality home repairs to boot:
In 1985, the frame of his Holdsworth bike was snapped in two. He repaired the broken seatpost himself, using araldite, an old seat post and some sheet aluminium and 30 years on was still riding it.
If its not on Strava it never happened
postierich,have you been on the Audax facebook page? đŸ™‚
Still on the original UN52 BB...
Meh. 82 years old? Geex did that before he went to school. Every.Day.!!!
Local-ish to me. I've probably seen him on the road and not paid much attention and just thought "some old guy on a bike".
That’s an average of just under 15,000 miles per year for 67 years!!
I've only done 15,000 over the last 10 years!
Off road though and that's from GPS stats where I wasn't tracking so much in the first few of those 10.
God knows what I've ridden before that. I wasn't MTBing though, just road since a kid until then, and wouldn't be much. Mostly in my teens, then got lazy.
Best I'll manage is maybe 100,000 by 80 (if I managed to make it that far, and it'll probably be e-assisted by then)
A million! 😮
Most impressive.
Amazing stuff! 15,000 a year? It takes about 3 years for me to drive that much, let alone ride!
What a legend
The athlete, who has never married
Aha, makes more sense now.
Saw him on tv riding an old Raleigh I think. He has about 5 bikes in his garage (no car) and rides them all regularly.
The guys a bloody hero in my book. Good for him!👍
that is awesome. read about him before. and a bloke called pat Kenny, who was a audax legend.
since starting work in 1982, when I started cycling I reckon I have done around 170 000 miles with mtb and commuting miles added together.
a million wont be reached.
Wow, I had never heard about this, but that's incredible! Chapeau!
since starting work in 1982, when I started cycling I reckon I have done around 170 000 miles with mtb and commuting miles added together.
When I bought my Specialized Langster SS road bike in about 2005 / 2006 (it's the first generation one, black, straight blade alu forks), I put a wired cycle computer on it. I think I've changed the computer once but it had a programmable odo so I was able to carry the mileage forward. That bike is now on 78,000 miles. A lot of commuting but I used it a lot for flatter road rides too.
Never really kept much of a track of MTB miles and none of the other bikes have permanent fitted computers, I just transfer the Garmin between them. Anything post 2012 ish will be on Strava. I kind of kept a diary for a little bit when I was racing (in the same manner as Mr Million up there) but it's incomplete, there are various gaps over the years.
I like to know how far I have done, not that I do loads of miles. I just like to know.