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105 miles. That'll be nothing compared to some on here.
72miles
On a 2000 stumpy HT.
60 something odd on an mtb, down the Grand Union canal towards London.
Same the next day.
Me bum hurt.
110 but a road ride. Unforgettable day of hell.
Dunwich Dynamo, although obviously not strictly in a day!
Off-road SDW over 2 days, so about 50 miles.
about 115 on the road bike at Ride London, including riding to and from the car park
about 100 on the MTB doing a 12hr solo Gorrick. That wasn't just the distance, it was 11 and a quarter hours of moving time too.
Haven’t really counted, but around 500km I’m guessing.
…on a Yamaha
280km, double-dutch Audax + a ride to the start and back. It was a good way to learn that an ultra stiff fixie was the wrong bike to bring.
A mate and I did approx 120 miles around West Sussex when we were 15. I still remember us planning that route on old OS maps earlier that week.
Did a 300 mile charity ride thing; joining up a few company offices, so had to ride through Central London, Manchester and Liverpool. Was really boring, and physically no where near as tough as the South Downs Way or various other rides I’d done. Quite fun though, riding up the A5 in the middle of the night was surreal.
[url= https://www.strava.com/activities/333555039 ]Route here if anyone wants it [/url]:D
240km through Poland on an Inbred, but I was bike fit, knocking out 160km days one after the other riding UK to Istanbul via a roundabout route. I've done 60km days that felt much tougher.
205km.
170km was the 2018 Etape du Tour from Annecy to Le Grand Bornand and the remaining 35km was the unexpected ride back to Annecy after I screwed up the bus transfer booking.
A long and hot day. But one of my favourites.
86 miles on a mtb in the Lakes. Was plenty...
401.27 miles
645.78 kilometers
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I know at least Terrahawk of this here parish has beaten that.
About 130 miles on the road and dirty reiver recently (200km/124 miles) on gravel. Doing the frontier 300 coast to coast thing soon which will be a new record for me - if I make it.
120 miles on an Etape du Tour through the Pyrenees. Ascent counts for a lot.
73 miles, all offroad, around 6100' of climbing and fairly often recently as i get ready for a big multi day charity ride.
Why do you ask?
James
Not me but my mate yesterday rode 594.15<abbr class="unit" title="kilometers"> km! Bristol to North Wales and back. With over 6000m of climb.</abbr>
Mind blowing stuff.
In a 24 hr period 400k'ish, and I was awake and riding most of that. not including the ew seconds I fell asleep on a descent into Henley....
This was a 400k Audax
281 miles in 12h. Ended up where I started 🤣 I DNF’d the 24h but managed over 350 miles in 16h. Was not well that day.
Much over 400-500km is fast over 24 hrs
John O Groats to Inverness in a day, about 124 miles on a loaded up 29er.
594.15km! Bristol to North Wales and back. With over 6000m of climb
25kph for 24 hours is incredible. And that doesn't take account of stopped time.
232 on road. I did the Chase the Sun ride a good few years ago now, think that was 220 miles but had to do some additional miles to get to the start and hotel at the end. This wasn’t a particularly big feat, we used to regularly do 120 to 150 miles, but there was a hellish headwind during one of the real flat sections, that was mentally hard.
Off-road is 120, South Downs Way and a bit extra to my campsite. Enjoyable ride, apart from my cassette came loose and I didn’t have the tools to tighten it. Put it back together and gravity did it’s best to keep it in place, meant I had very limited gears, on a Marin Pine Mountain that weighed a tonne plus my bike packing gear, limited gears and that weight made the hills a joy!
The SDW on a day and Peddars Way and back in a day too.
I found it brutal at the time but in hindsight loved every minute of it.
In fairness, I love riding the SDW over 3 days even more as its just such a stunning part of the world.
Peddars Way was a lot flatter, very beautiful too but not quiet the "adventure" the SDW is. Well worth the ride though for anyone that gets the chance.
165 miles / 264 km Stroud - Tor Cross for fish & chips @ Start Bay Inn.
About 10 years ago, I rode a 12 hour time trial registering 232 miles, the winner did 302 which was then a British record. I think this has been considerably extended since then. I now live in Cataluña and on Good Friday this year did a 450km gravel race from Barcelona to Valencia, my riding time was 22 hours but had a little kip en route. The winning time was 18 hours non stop. Not bad for a 62 year old.
SDW with a bit at the start and a bit at the end, so about 105 miles off-road.
Road was Gent Wevelgem this year, which came in at about the 100 roughly.
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100 for me.
110km from Cambridge to Woodbridge. It took a day, but only because it was a social ride and we stopped for breakfast, cake, lunch and cake.
I think it was calorie neutral. Probably.
I've done Manchester to London a couple of times. First one was the formal Rapha event, there was a diversion on route and then I had to ride from the finish at London Velodrome down to my Mum's house so it ended up being 235 miles in total.
The next time I did it was simply from my house to hers, about 220 miles.
I've done Dunwich Dynamo loads of times. One year, to avoid the increasing bike-on-train restrictions at Ipswich, I had the idea of riding from Dunwich to Cambridge and getting the train from there. 125 miles up to Dunwich, another 80 across to Cambridge. That was not the greatest plan ever... 😳
Off road, it'd be the time I raced Sleepless as a Pair. Can't remember the exact distance but it was around 200 miles and I could barely walk for 2 days afterwards.
250 miles,Fort William and back.Cycling through the night on quiet roads is ace. Doing a 200 miler Ride to the Sun ,Edinburgh - Carlisle - Edinburgh (again) :-).
Did a 100 mile route on the roadie once that was a few tenths short, so ended up circling the block a few times. It was a pretty underwhelming ride around the Aylesbury vale and the edge of the Chilterns, so not even that memorable of a ride. Longest ride on the mountain bike was a 42 mile loop in the Chilterns I reckon.
165 miles... mix of road and off road.did London to Brighton on road in *reverse*, then l2b off road back... plus a few linking miles...
Was a great ride, I'd deffo do again...
DrP
188 miles / 300 km in the Tayside Transgression audax.
Rained for the first 100 miles - with many quitting with cold at 80 miles - but took me through Glen Lyon for the first time.
Also 207 miles in 24 hrs:
Starting at midday in Stirling, meeting friends and then riding through the night to Montrose and back.
Multiple stops in parks for a drum-up and a wee nap on benches - which I found harder than if we'd kept going. Never again!
150 miles fully loaded up for touring in central Sweden.
I planned to do 75 that day, but all the closer youth hostels were booked.
When I booked the bed the receptionist mentioned that the front desk shut at 5pm
It was a very early start for me!
Nothing like some of the rides up above!
Actually I've done Manchester to the coast a few times, and that's about 50 miles of off-road and mixed trails on the TPT, flat as a pancake though, so doesn't really count.
159 miles. Road ride. About 8000 feet of climbing. Left at 6am, back in the village pub for 9pm.
All about pacing and fuelling really - constantly being one or two gears easier than you felt you could ride, spinning up hills, couple of proper meal stops, constantly nibbling and drinking.
Club has just put together a circuit of Derbyshire - furthest roads east, west, south and north, lowest point in the county and a small diversion up to Flash. Think its 194 miles. A couple of idiots are looking at it as a day out, reckon it would make a lovely 3 day tour.
The wacky world of audax is running London-Edinburgh-London this year, if you've got 4 days free in August 😳
200 km at the Dirty Reiver.
Furthest on an MTB? I did the Great Glen Way from Inverness and then along the West Highland Way to Kinlochleven. Next day was finishing the WHW to my (then) house in Glasgow.
I did the HONC singlespeed 67 miles .
225 miles from Yeovil to Rammy on a fully laden bike weighing 65lbs. Nice day tho with a decent tail wind.
Not me but my mate yesterday rode 594.15<abbr class=”unit” title=”kilometers”> km! Bristol to North Wales and back. With over 6000m of climb.</abbr>
Mind blowing stuff.
Oooh that Bryan Chapman Memorial Audux,(got a club race report on that)popped up on my FB feed and I must admit I thought wowsers.
I’m around 70-80miles in a day but tbh I’ve never been that motivated/had the time in going more.
223 miles - a double Coast to Coast a couple of years ago.
Also did the Mallorca 312 in 2019 - think that was about 196 miles including getting to and from the start.
I did the Bryan Chapman Memorial audax this weekend,610km. Furthest in 24 hours is 420km.
I did the HONC singlespeed 67 miles .
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120 at this year's Fred Whitton, Inc riding to from the start. That hurt as I'd not done enough training.
MCTD - I saw that Derbyshire loop and thought it was too much for 1day
Dave Lloyd mega challenge in snowdonia. 240km/5500m climbing including the hard side of the Bwlch-y-Groes… went back and did it the next year for some reason. Never again.
Furthest single day ride in one go was riding from home to a family autumn holiday at a house by Kishorn, having set off at about 5am from our place in Angus. That was about 203 miles; sketchiest moment was in the dark on the descent between Achnasheen and Achnashellach, where a stag jumped into the road in front of me and we almost met.. Dunno who got the biggest fright.
I do a similar ride every autumn, either northbound or southbound; might be Ullapool to home, home to Plockton via the Corrieyairick, just whatever the week's plan allows for.
Croix de Fer with flat bars, stubby bar ends, nice wheels and 32mm tyres.
For a lot of years I've provided on-trail medical response at an ultra on Speyside, so ride from home with kit, maybe northbound over the Cairn o Mount on a Friday heading for Lossiemouth, ride up and down the Speyside Way course all day Saturday, then ride home via Tomintoul and Braemar on the Sunday for a well over 300 mile weekend. For that, I'll put 35mm gravel tyres on, as the course is off-road and that's the priority. Great fun.
Mtb 105. South Downs way
Road 82. Ride to the start of the club Sunday long ride, and back.
Pre-Strava for me, can’t remember which year so don’t know exact distance, but I have also been stupid enough for this.
I did the HONC singlespeed 67 miles
About 440km, a 400km audax and to and from the start/finish. Went round the whole thing pretty much on the maximum speed, or slightly above, so had a few sensible stops! Started in Malton IIRC and headed north up the coast and then west, so plenty of elevation!
Longest race was about 290km. Finished as they were taking down the barriers (outside the time limit of course).
Longest MTB is about 180km. That was a sort of Off Road Tour of the Peak in a day thing that a mate put together, up and down pretty much every major lump/climb/descent in the Peak. Something daft like 19-20 hours in the saddle in the end. Ended up going across the same dirt track crossroads in the middle of a moor 3 or 4 times, last time it was almost completely dark and pissing it down. That was fun. Amazingly few punctures. Lots of walking towards the end of the day though!
224miles of a return run of the Exmouth Exodus. The hill coming out of Bath at 216miles in order to get home was excruciating. My GPS ran out of power at 7hours and the battery to support it 4hrs later.
103 road bike
34 mtb
100 miles offroad at Bristol Bikefest on a rigid singlespeed with 26" wheels.
Took me almost a month to get any feeling back in my hands.
Also did a few MTB marathon type 100km events and the HONC several times on the singlespeed
137 miles. 125 mile charity ride with a 6 mile ride from home to the start and back.
100 in Esex on a road bike.
Marin Rough Ride (50?) on an mtb.
123 miles. Was meant to be just over 100 but the difference between google maps route and NCN reality lumped on an extra 20 which I had to do to make my camp spot.
Heh, you can read all about it!!
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/riding-home-for-a-pint-with-dad/
Road bike
Tour du Mont Blanc
330km, 8000m+ climbing. Took me 17.5 hours.
MTB
Salzkammergut Trophy
210km, 7100m climbing. That was 13.5 hours.
100miles overnight through the borders with about 1000 other crazy people.
160km according to Garmin connect, so that covers the past 10 years or so, probably cycled further before I really started recording everything accurately.
When I was young and living in Bolton, one Sunday I just felt like going out for a ride, cycled to Halifax, onto Huddersfield then Holmfirth over Holme moss to the snake pass, down into Glossop onto Stalybridge, AUL then back through the edges of Manchester to Bolton. I hadn't planned to cycle that far, didn't have enough water, food or money (and this was pre mobile phone days) so was absolutely wasted when I got home. I stopped at my brothers in Ashton to hopefully get some food and water, but the bastard wasn't in. I think that was probably a chunk more than 160km and included quite a lot of elevation change.
444 miles, on a 24hr TT. Probably about 450 by the time I'd got back to HQ.
That was a very long time ago.
About 100 miles on mtb
London to York, 14hours, about 225 miles I think. It was horrible, I hate riding long distances - I've learned I just don't enjoy rides over about 4 hours now.
135km
Did the London to Brighton off road with a couple of route print outs when I was off work few years ago.
That didn't include towing the kids to nursery in the trailer 1st
Only got lost once around Hurtwood, because I got distracted by some tempting singletrack
Never really done anything like that so was well chuffed when I finished
I was a sweaty mess on the train back to London, all the young friday night clubgoers gave me a wide birth
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/fwH8DCPu4pb
Done chase the sun south a couple of times so max 208 miles last summer on the road bike is the biggest. Conversely haven't done many big miles trips on the mtb - maybe 40 max? Should probably do something about that.
Rode from home in Brum to Aberystwyth once, then got the train back, about 130 miles once navigational errors and the world's slowest 7 miles home from New St are factored in. 🙂 Done a couple of hundred mile sportifs, probably prouder of a 95 round trip on Cycle To Work day (Birmingham to Banbury and back), and I did TumbleUp4Life once, a charity ride to see how many times you can ride up the Tumble - I did 8, I think, 78 miles and 12k feet of climbing according to That Strava. 38 of those miles were some of the best fun I ever had on a bike. 🙂
Some impressive numbers in this thread! 160km offroad for me - the Transcambrian Way. There was only really one decent descent in the whole thing, never again.
600k audax, started at 6am Saturday, rode through the night and finished around 1pm on the Sunday. Something spiritual about riding all day into the sunset and seeing the sunrise again.
I've done RideLondon twice on the road bike, and doing it again at the end of the month so 100 miles.
300 miles in a day, just. Then collapsed against a lamp post for 15 minutes before riding home at a leisurely wobbly pace to total 506km or so in 24:30 or thereabouts.
As per the numerous silly threads I started since, I wanted to try for the big 400, but never managed to work out how to gain the difference.
Much over 400-500km is fast over 24 hrs
Assuming it's flatish, I'm not really in agreement. When I did 490km (or whatever 300 miles is) I picked up the kids from school ( and despite my cajouling they never got above 8mph!) Cooked them tea and hung around at home for hour or two before the missus returned. I guess my average riding speed was about 15.5mph, which isn't at all fast.
IMHO it is the bit between 360 and 400 miles that becomes fast, and that's why I never tried it. To succeed I'd need to average 18.18mph and allow only 2 hours for eating, which is laughable for me.
I made vague attempts to persuade people to do a team effort, and even bought some tribars. But all I got from that was Achilie tendonitis 🤔
281 miles in 12h. Ended up where I started 🤣 I DNF’d the 24h but managed over 350 miles in 16h. Was not well that day.
THAT is fast. Bloody hell. 22mph. Jesus wept!
Only started using Strava 2 years ago and everything before that wasn't recorded anywhere. I'd guess just over 100 miles doing something like the Etap du Dales...
Not a clue on MTB.
444 miles, on a 24hr TT. Probably about 450 by the time I’d got back to HQ
Wh... how... ?
130 solo miles on a road bike when I decided to ride a stage of the Tour of Britain the week before it came to the North West.
Weirdly, that was also my first century which I'd been putting off for over a year as I was worried I couldn't do it but for some reason decided that 130 would be fine (it was).
I knew there would be some super-impressive numbers posted above though. I don't think long rides are really my thing tbh but always immpressed by the miles some people can put away.
156miles Coast to Coast with a slight detour near Ripon.
221km on a sportive in Norfolk, the name alludes me at the moment. Distance wasn't bad but I remember being demented by the wind noise.
I think you'd need to divide into the sub sets of people who enjoy, train for and aim to complete long distance rides in one group, and people who aren't weird in the other group. 🤣
Some impressive numbers in this thread!
Wait until all the 24hr TTers and audax riders turn up to this thread...
I know a few people who have done the Rapha Festive 500 in one ride (sub 24hrs) - for a couple of years now there's been a small group do it round and round (and round...) Herne Hill Velodrome. At that point the distance becomes irrelevant, it's basically a mental challenge combined with an eating/drinking one.
MCTD – I saw that Derbyshire loop and thought it was too much for 1day
It kind of sounds like a lumpier Mallorca 312 or a 400k audax, so should be doable in 24 hours, but the wrong end of the Type 2 fun scale for my liking.
I'm now wondering if we know each other in real life through the club....🤔
100 miles on the road, 80 on gravel and 70 on MTB.
I did though do the Badger Divide a couple of weeks ago - 3 consecutive MTB days of 65 miles, loaded, including +8000ft on a day.
Wh… how… ?
Lungs the size of a horse, arse made out of leather and (most years) pretty much a top 10 result in the national 24.
Think the record is 100 miles more than that though...