Whats the Most you have Done Per day?

[lukesdad]

244 miles Cardigan to west meon regular pilgrimage to m-i-laws, usually takes between 17 and 18 hours.

 

[al78]

Watching the first part of Mark Beaumont's Americas trip made me realise that I want to do more long rides. The trouble is the damn UK weather! I'm naturally a bit of a fair weather cyclist and don't usually do much when it is gloomy, chilly and wet!

I suppose the weather is part of the challenge. One issue I find with long rides is navigation; watching Mark Beaumont it seemed as though he could stay on the same quiet road for a hundred miles or so. In the UK, you can't really do that unless you fancy using busy NSL single carriageway roads with heavy lorries thundering past you. If you use the minor roads then you have to have a reasonable idea of the route as it is rare to be able to stay on minor roads for very long without hitting a junction that requires a change of route.

I have wondered about whether it would be possible to cycle from my house to my dads house (240 miles in the car, using motorways) but finding a pleasant route that is easy to navigate would be a nightmare.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

122 miles Sportive ride in Picardy (in 2000), 7 hours exactly.

As me and my brother in law finished, we saw the winner of the event being presented with his trophy, ("Hey look at that guy" says Phil, "he looks quite a bit like Laurant Jalabert, how sad that he's ridden in an ONCE kit then.......Oh, it is Laurent Jalabert!").

At least we can say we were beaten by the (then) No1 ranked rider in the UCI rankings (we let him win of course).

 

[Noodley]

Just checked - 417km (260 miles) in 19 hours in 2007.

 

[HLaB]

135miles the Bonnyrigg (Edinburgh) Sportif 12.5miles to start 110 miles (nonstop, the link is at the bottom of this page) and then 12.5miles home.

Oh I almost forgot after I did my first 200km (125miles) I cycled the 16 miles home so it should be 141miles.

 

[ColinJ]

One issue I find with long rides is navigation; watching Mark Beaumont it seemed as though he could stay on the same quiet road for a hundred miles or so. In the UK, you can't really do that unless you fancy using busy NSL single carriageway roads with heavy lorries thundering past you. If you use the minor roads then you have to have a reasonable idea of the route as it is rare to be able to stay on minor roads for very long without hitting a junction that requires a change of route.

I have wondered about whether it would be possible to cycle from my house to my dads house (240 miles in the car, using motorways) but finding a pleasant route that is easy to navigate would be a nightmare.

Buy yourself a GPS unit for your bike!

On my 140+ mile ride from Hebden Bridge to Coventry I only made one navigational mistake, and that was when I decided to depart from my pre-programmed route and follow road signs instead of my GPS. Of course, the very first sign that I followed had been turned round by some bright spark to point the wrong way...

I only did one 200 km audax using a route sheet and that was enough to convince me that GPS was the way to go. That was the second best cycling decision I ever made (the first was buying a bike again, aged 30)!

 

[mickle]

140 miles, London to Hereford, 9 hours.

A very very long time ago.

 

[Noodley]

Buy yourself a GPS unit for your bike!

Or realise that the north of Scotland is part of the UK!

 

[ColinJ]

Or realise that the north of Scotland is part of the UK!

Since my mother and her half of my family are Scottish, I'm well aware of that! Er, but what's that got to do with navigating by GPS?

PS Scrub that - I see what you meant - loads of nice quiet roads in the north of Scotland!

I must take a bike up there one day.

 

[totallyfixed]

400km audax then rode 100km home, 500km in @ 21 hours.

 

[661-Pete]

Buy yourself a GPS unit for your bike!

For that monster 130 I did all those years ago, I used an old-fashioned paper map. GPS wasn't around in those days! But I had no difficulty in planning out a route hugging the quieter 'yellow' class 'C' and below roads on the map. Occasionally I had to bridge gaps with short stretches of 'A' and 'B' road but everyone has to do that sometimes.

However I thought I'd take advantage of our modern technology and have a nostalgic look at a point near the start of that ride, as I was about to ascend Long Mynd (by the easier route!). It must have been from somewhere near this point. I'd overnighted at the nearby youth hostel. Despite that fact that I've never been back there in 34 years, it looks surprisingly familiar. It was a lovely start to the ride in the cool early morning. Things got a bit tough later in the day though!

Does anyone else know that area well?

 

[Kirstie]

110 miles in something like 6-7 hrs (can't remember) from where I live to Wellesbourne airfield and back.