My parents lived in Germany for several years, and I was born there. Bicycles were common then as now, and both my parents rode one. But when we moved back to the US, bicycles were left behind, and I've never seem either on a bike again.

When I started randonneuring, I was talking to my dad about it, and he mentioned the farthest he had ever ridden on a bike was 180 km, if I remember right, 112 miles. That would have been on a single-speed steel bike with 28" tires.