Longest you have cycled?

[shiato storm]

around the isle of white...non-stop and pretty fast. not sure how far it is but it hurt at the end. and it was a pre-seasn training camp!!

[Stigggeh]

most i have ever done was a middlesbrough-stokesly-middlesbrough via roseberry topping and great ayton... about a 20mile round trip.

put it this way i couldnt sit down the next day :O

[iranu]

i'd be very surprised if any non-pro rider can actually do 150 miles in 7.5 hours - thats not much off tour de france pace. i can hold 20mph for a couple of hours but no way over 7 hours without breaks.

150 miles in 7.5 hrs is about the same pace that the tour de france riders average in the mountains!! If you've ever stood at the side of the road when they come past they are doing 30mph with no effort.

The tour regularly averages more than 30 miles an hour especially on the flatter stages. The peleton's average speed for the whole of the race is around 28mph. The fastest average is held by Lance Armstrong at 25.026mph.

Club riders often do 100 miles in less than 4 hrs in timetrials. I was ectstatic getting my 100 to 4hr 30 mins. When I used to go out in a pack of 20 we would do 80 miles in around 3 hrs. You have no idea as to how fit I was when i was cycling seriously and you have absolutely no idea how fit professional cyclists are. Miguel Indurain had a resting heart rate of 28bpm - that's clinically dead!! - mine was just under 40bmp. I would do 400+ miles a week (inc 9 miles there and back to collage everyday - used to take me 28 minutes on a single speed [72 gear inches] bike). Yet I was nowhere near as good as a mate of mine who ended up as a professional mountain biker. He rode the Tour of Spain as a fill in and said it was literally hell on earth, he could not believe the pace the pro's would ride at and that was day after day.