My favorite "est" was the farthest I have gone without a car passing me: 135 miles. Maybe everyone knew it was my birthday ride so they stayed home and left me alone. As I recall, only about a dozen cars passed me on the whole 200 miles.
My fastest distance was another lifetime ago. I did the Davis Double Century in 8 hours. I was in a looooong paceline led by an in-line quad for about fifteen miles. Foolishly, I left them on the first hill. The last I saw of the quad, or any other rider, it blew past me on at the bottom of a hill doing about 70 mph. The last 160 miles of that baby were solo. I sure wish I had known the quad and a cat 1 rider were only five minutes ahead of me all day.
Last edited by B. Carfree; 05-09-11 at 10:07 PM.