General Cycling Discussion - Longest ride?

Hello :)

I've just been out for my longest ride yet as a relatively new cyclist, 51 miles. On my way, it got me wondering what some of your longest ever cycles are. I know my paltry 50 miles is a bit pants, but I'm interested to find out :)

Let the forum magic begin...

I'll bite, but it will come up short. 100 miles. Don't really care to do it again.

Longest day trip: I've done several centuries since getting back into cycling, but oddly, I've never really bothered to push myself beyond the 100 mile mark.

Longest tour: a 900 mile "Land's End to John O'Groats (LEJOG)" tour across Great Britain completed over the course of 13 days this past June (70 miles/day average).

My longest one day ride was 110 miles. From Gunnison, CO to Creede, CO. It included 12,000+ft high Slumgullion Pass after 60 miles. It wasn't a bad day, but I slept well that night!

Longest Day: the UMCA 24-hour Time Trial in 2006: http://www.machka.net/24hour/2006_UMCA24hour.htm
462.4 kms (287.3 miles)

Longest Event: any of the four 1200K randonnees I've completed: Rocky Mountain 1200 (2002), Paris-Brest-Paris (2003), Great Southern Randonnee (2004), and Last Chance (2005). I think the Paris-Brest-Paris was the longest at 1212 km or something like that. And for those unfamiliar with randonneuring, they are timed events, so for the 1200 km distance, the time limit is 90 hours including all breaks. I finished all of mine between 88 and 89.5 hours.

Longest Tour: 5000 km over 3 months in Australia in 2004.

Longest day, about 140 miles. Longest event, a five-day 600-mile sportive in Ireland. Longest tour, 2500 miles over eight weeks in the US and Canada.

250 miles over 3 days; longest single day was about 93.

Longest ride was about 85 fully-loaded miles 30 years ago in Maryland (?) on a trip from Atlanta to NH to Milwaukee with my wife. Coulda been a bit more or less than 85 - that was before computers.
Have ridden bunches of 50-65 mile rides in recent years.

Longest in length or time?:D Length, 125. But a flat century may take 5:30 whereas a 114 mile ride like these centuries take me about 8 hours.

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I'm happy with about 30 miles in a day. After that, I want a cigarette and some beer, and maybe a movie after I check my email.

I'm happy with about 30 miles in a day. After that, I want a cigarette and some beer, and maybe a movie after I check my email.

Mods! I smell smoke in here!
What kind of beer?

Longest day: Wolverine 200 - 200 miles in 12 hours, which included a lunch and a nap. (Short night the night before.) I just barely made it within the allotted time. If they ever hold it again, I'm getting more sleep before the event so I don't fall asleep during!

Longest/most intense trip: Quint-Century DALMAC - 509 miles in 5 days.

Longest single day road ride ride: 125 miles

Longest single day mountain road ride: 100 miles (Hardscrable Pass)

Longest single day mountain bike ride: 62.5 miles over 11,600' Rollins Pass (twice)

Longest single day loaded touring bike: 85 miles in central Missouri

Longest multiday ride: 1000 miles solo along Lewis and Clark.

Hardest longest single day ride: McClellan Mt in Colorado. Short distance (30 miles). You get real goofy at 13500'

130 miles

42 very flat miles in FL. I'm old and fat so can't do very many miles at 1 time.

1200k this spring (760 miles or so over 88 hours).

Longest 1-day, about 256 miles (400k).

My pesonal longest ride was 108 miles as I went to Augusta, GA and back. I took a few fast-food breaks and some restful time while sitting at the Augusta Riverwalk. However, I did my timing wrong and ended up having to ride the last 20 miles with no headlights on.

And I hurt like crazy the day afterwards