What are your greatest achievements since you started cycling, excluding local rides?

[simongt]

You don’t stop cycling because you grow old, you grow old because you stop cycling.

Ne'er was a truer word stated.

 

[simongt]

A simple one really. When I met my wife to be, she told me that she cycled everywhere. This embarassed me back into cycling as I'd become lazy and was using a car far more than necessary.
Thanks to the GLW, I now use a bike as my go to transport, as does she and the car only gets used when distance, load carrying or weather dictates otherwise.
Over the last eight years, it's average annual mileage is under 5k.

 

[Moodyman]

Cycling down the most famous street in the world a couple of weeks ago:

 

[taximan]

Riding 50 miles on my my Herculese jeep from Middlesbrough to Durham City & back when I was about 12 & getting into bother with a traffic bobby while I was there.

 

[dicko]

My greatest achievement was going from a German back pedal break single speed cycle (Christmas present 1959) to a three speed Moulton Standard. I was the envy of all the works cycle shed in 1963.

 

[Gillstay]

Over coming an injury, building an old BSA up to start cycling again, then getting 400 miles across Brittany to raise money for a charity to pay on the good will and help I received.

 

[GuyBoden]

Another of my many awesome achievements is inenting the 46'er in 1981 when I was too lazy to fix a puncture so fitted a 24" chopper rear wheel to my 26 x 1 3/8 wheeled Raleigh Wayfarer. Over the years several MTB firms have copied my invention, although the regular death or mutilation of riders has stopped this genius idea becoming more widespread.

My fab invention was fitting a motorbike front end (wheel, forks, brakes, handlebars) to a push bike way back in 1975, so Warrington was where push bike front suspension was originally born.

 

[Dogtrousers]

In the late 70s a mate and I cycled from the Midlands to Bala and back, camping. To save weight we took just a flysheet instead of a whole tent.

We invented bikepacking. Sorry.

By the way, the trip was an utter disaster, it pissed down, then we got eaten by midges and I got food poisoning. I've never been camping again since.

 

[matticus]

We invented bikepacking. Sorry.

By the way, the trip was an utter disaster, it pissed down, then we got eaten by midges and I got food poisoning

And THAT, dear reader, is why this ludicrous craze will never catch on.

 

[yello]

I used to like doing broadies, as we called them back then/there - broad slides I suppose. I did some quite impressive ones. Back pedal brakes, head of steam, bike sideways and slam on the brake. Success, and judges points, on the basis of how much dust you raised, gravel displaced and trail left. Points docked for high siding or not holding on to the bike.

These days, I think my achievements are measured more by NOT doing (either voluntarily or otherwise) the above.