Hi guys,
I ride my bike on Sunday with my friends to our neighbor town.
We started on Sunday morning from 7am, and returned back until 4am the next day dawn.
We just had short time break for lunch and dinner, and always riding on the road. It was really a big challenge for me. I have never ride such a long distance before. The total journey was more 412km.
How long do you usually ride one day?
These photos were took at night, not very clear.
I rode 40 Mi one day (many years ago) and had blood & blisters!
Keith
Did 75km yesterday (that’s 46 miles for our fellow Americans - yeehaw!), which bumped my monthly total for June to 170km (usually I do ~20 km/day).
Not having driving license is good for my health, I guess. 
82km, 50km of which was the Karapoti Classic, if it was flat and on the road it would be equivalent to >200km. Good fun 8)
420 km is incredible, congratulation! My longest was 200 miles (322 km) in < 12 hours. I have also ridden 160 miles in one day on 4 occasions. I usually do 3-4 century rides (100 miles) each season.
Twenty minutes is my limitation!You are so great to ride so long time!
Welcome to BLF, kilysytemm.
I’ve riden a few unsupported double centuries. You can ride from High Point SP to Cape May here in NJ. You take RT 206 nearly the whole way. It’s easy to do since it’s all down hill. 
That’s 196 miles and you ride around CM to you click over 200m. Once or twice a season I’ll get a bug up my butt and get lost for 125m or so, but usually I take 20-40m road rides with an occasional 80-100m ride on a Sunday. The most I ever road in a single calender year was just over 8000m.
Now a days, I spend more time on a mountain bike as I have grade school aged kids who are not quite ready for long rides on the road. My youngest is still on a 20” wheeled Gary Fisher MB and maxs out at about 20m on a rail trail you can access 100 yards from my door. He can manage about 1/2 that in the woods. He’s almost ready to make the jump to a full sized ride, so that will help a lot. I’ll say too that he has almost 600 miles in just over two years on that little thing which is quite a feat given his age (eight) and the circumference of those tiny wheels.
I will say also that putting a cycling computer on his bike was one of the smartest things his mother and I ever did. Unlike his older brother who was born to ride, the little one used to balk after the first mile or so. I think the Burley trailer made him lazy. But he is such a numbers freak (he’s in 2nd grade but goes to 4th grade for math and reading) that the computer distracts/occupies him and now we never hear a word of complaint. Sadly, what I do hear is a constant update of time, distance traveled, speed… he never shuts up!
He’s real fun on a long car ride with a hand held GPS, but that’s a whole other topic.
Wow, cone: 8,000 miles a year? That's almost pro-level distance 8) . My highest mileage year was just shy of 7,000 and that was the year I got clipped from Coke after 16 years on the job - Took the whole summer off and rode 5-6 days a week. My average distance over the last 12 years or so is ~ 5,500 miles.
Here all this time I thought you were just sitting at the computer while your wife baked cookies... ;) :p
106 km from town to popular country side pizza restaurant 
is my current record.
Frequent 50km and occasional 100km rides here. Covered 17,000 km in past 2 years with my Hybrid.
HAHAHA! BetweenRides, you guys don’t know this, but when I first became a member here I had just had shoulder surgery and had way too much time on my hands until it was rehabbed enough to let me go back to work. All that extra time likely contributed to me being a bit of an a$$. Although, I was honestly just trying to be entertaining. I did, however, just have a slice of banana cake!
8000 miles? Not as impressive as it sounds. I used to live in Newfoundland, NJ on Clinton Rd. Some of you guys might be familiar with it because the road is in the Weird New Jersey magazine fairly often. Anyway, it is exactly 10 miles end to end and only has houses at either end. The rest goes through heavy woods that belong to the Newark Watershed. I would characterize it as constant rolling with a couple of long hills. I’ve literally been on that rode in every weather condition at every time of day. There used to be a great bagel shop near the end of the road that was open 24/7. Nothing is better than an everything with a sausage patty at 2AM after you’ve just ridden 20 miles in four inches of snow.
Typically, I would ride down to the highway, turn around, go to the other end, turn around, and go home. Sometimes I’d do it twice, back to back. Mostly done on auto pilot. I used to be able to crank it out in under an hour. Not too shabby considering I mainly used a MB because of the poor road conditions. If you are dumb enough to do that a few hundred times during a single year you too can rack up the miles. Trust me. it takes a certain kind of mental patient to pull it off. It also helps if you have no other obligations (wife, kids, house) and absolutely nothing else to do (no TV, computer, or cookies).
It will turn you into a cycling shark among tuna, if only locally. Not that that really matters.
Aloha and welcome to BLF kilystemm!
for a few years myself and three buddies used to do an informal competition ride from boston to provincetown in massachusetts. the kicker was to make the last ferry leaving provincetown back to boston around 8pm. 204km (126 miles)
two years i made the ferry and two years i did not. then, after riding for 126 miles you had to find a place to stay for the night. brutal.
one year i pulled up as the ferry was pulling out with two of my friends on the back deck of the ferry, waving. i did not see the fourth guy until weeks later. the wind on the outer cape after you have ridden 100 miles can be wicked.
young men find this kind of thing “fun”.
80 km but climbing around Etna
I like to ride fast and hard for 1-2 hours. Normally 20-25 miles but I did a 60 mile ride once in a group ride. I hated it. After 2 hrs I have spent enough time in the saddle and start to get sore.
agree to a point. those 12 hour odysseys beat me up for days afterward.
recently will ride 18miles, go for a swim at my favorite lake, another 10 or so, visit the parents, then home for a total of about 60 with some breaks, thats about my limit these days. no desire to spend 12-14 hours in the saddle.
I ride in local Century Rides for various Charities. About 102 miles was the longest. In my day, I rode with a few buddies, and we did the 100 miles in 5 hours. It came out to be a 20 mph average for the distance with mandatory stops at 25, 50, 75, and 100.
when I was young and didn’t have a bum knee…
Alb Extrem in Germany
My first year I did only the 170km, but then they removed the short distance and 210 was the shortest…
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> 400km sounds crazy, I’m sure you felt great about it (a week or so after, once the pain subsided…)
-S
All guys, Spring is coming! New riding is ready. I will be on road this weekend. It is really great!
That's seriously impressive. You're definitely doing something right.