summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Well done - my maximum isn't even half that...
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- Thread starter Arch
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theloafer
Legendary Member
- Location
- newton aycliffe
whooooooooooo congrats archthe first one is always the hardest.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Well done. 
I think I would need to move the decimal point one space to the left to make it look like my usual display.
I think I would need to move the decimal point one space to the left to make it look like my usual display.
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Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Looking at my computer in strong light part way round, I noticed that the LCD display only allows for a top speed of 799mph, as the digit to the far left doesn't have the necessary bits for an 8 or 9. That's just not fair....
I was just talking to my supervisor, and he told me about a mate of his who ran/walked the 76 miles of the Dales Way in under 24 hours (23.75 hrs actually). Now I feel all humble and unfit again!
I was just talking to my supervisor, and he told me about a mate of his who ran/walked the 76 miles of the Dales Way in under 24 hours (23.75 hrs actually). Now I feel all humble and unfit again!
Arch said:Looking at my computer in strong light part way round, I noticed that the LCD display only allows for a top speed of 799mph, as the digit to the far left doesn't have the necessary bits for an 8 or 9. That's just not fair....
I was just talking to my supervisor, and he told me about a mate of his who ran/walked the 76 miles of the Dales Way in under 24 hours (23.75 hrs actually). Now I feel all humble and unfit again!
Don't be. You did good. I haven't "Done the Tonne" yet so I'm looking up to you!
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Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Melvil said:Don't be. You did good. I haven't "Done the Tonne" yet so I'm looking up to you!
Cheers! I had sort of decided to do one by the end of the summer, and went out yesterday thinking 'well, maybe...' and hadn't even decided my route until I stopped for tea in Pocklington.
Next time, I'd like to be capable of sitting up to eat my dinner when I get back, instead of inhaling noodles from a bowl, virtually comatose...
I should point out that it was mostly flat as a pancake, I got the only hilly bit out of the way in the morning.
Tim Bennet.
Entirely Average Member
- Location
- S of Kendal
Don't delude yourself that this makes long distances easy. The uniformity of the riding makes it much harder on your 'contact' points than say, rolling country where a change in position is always being forced upon you.
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Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Tim Bennet. said:
Well, there is that, yes. I remember my first tour, to Norfolk, I turned east at Thurlby, Lincs, thinking "Hoorah, it's flat from here" and then discovered that flat means never getting to freewheel...
(and headwinds, and being overtaken by a couple of Chinese men on shopper bikes at one stage...)
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Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
ChrisKH said:Well done Arch. 200km next.
Good god, really? (I find it hard to think in Km)
I am wondering how far it would be to cycle to my Mum's - it's about a 100 miles by car, but that's using the motorways. I can just imagine her face if I turned up and said "I've just cycled over..."...
I'll need to get my speed up a bit for anything longer (or for any future 100's). And/or get going earlier, so that I can give myself longer breaks. Annoyingly I just missed the village hall in Elvington serving tea and cake for their Scarecrow festival, so I sat on a bench on the village green for water and a biscuit, hoping that the figure slumped face down on the next bench WAS a scarecrow, and not dead.
velocidad
Veteran
- Location
- Between Hessle and Hull
outstandingly good effort arch. sounds like you did this as a solo ride, which makes it even more of an achievement.
cheers,
velocidad.
cheers,
velocidad.
stedlocks
Über Member
- Location
- Stortford, near the Airport ;-)
well done!!
did you have a 'mangina' at the end of it??
We are doing stortford to southend on thursday, about 46miles each way, and that will be my longest effort yet.......
did you have a 'mangina' at the end of it??
We are doing stortford to southend on thursday, about 46miles each way, and that will be my longest effort yet.......
, I'll agree with Tim about flat rides being less forgiving on your contact points, I did a long flat ride on a bike I've done several long rides on and couldn't work out why I was so uncomfortable until I twigged.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
well done arch. i've only just joined the 100 club myself.
