Long Bike Question NEED HELP!!

Radfed332 said:

Hi, I am an amateur bike rider. I was thinking of taking a
trip that would take about 70 miles this summer. Does
anybody know how long this would take biking? Any insight
would be awesome!!

Do you mean 700 miles? 70 is just half a day (or less), even
if pretty slow.

700 is more "trip-ish" -- give it 9-10 days, and enjoy.

Bill "been known to trip without leaving house (but that was
LONG ago)" S.

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Quoted message said:

Hi, I am an amateur bike rider. I was thinking of taking a
trip that would

take

Quoted message said:

about 70 miles this summer. Does anybody know how long
this would take

biking?

Quoted message said:

Any insight would be awesome!!

Some people can do 70 miles in 3 hours. Some can't do
it at all.

Taking a wild guess, someone who's fit but without much
recent cycling experience, riding a hybrid or a road bike,
on terrain that's mostly flat, stopping for rest breaks and
meals, might do 70 miles in 6-8 hours.

But there are too many variables, none of which you've
resolved in your question, to really provide more than a
wild guess.

What kind of bike? What's the longest distance you've
ridden, how long did it take, and how did you feel
afterwards? How's your aerobic fitness? How hilly is the
terrain? What will you be carrying? What will you be
wearing? How high is your pain threshold?

RichC

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(Radfed332) said:

Hi, I am an amateur bike rider. I was thinking of taking a
trip that would take about 70 miles this summer. Does
anybody know how long this would take biking?

Maybe 2 or 3 pee stops. Unless you're eating a lot of
asparagus or something.

cheers, Tom

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Radfed332 said:

Hi, I am an amateur bike rider. I was thinking of taking a
trip that would take about 70 miles this summer. Does
anybody know how long this would take biking? Any insight
would be awesome!!

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I am an amateur bike rider.

Like we're all professionals around here.

Quoted message said:

I was thinking of taking a trip that would take about
70 miles this summer. Does anybody know how long this
would take

biking?

So it isn't that your question is long, rather, it's that
you expect this trip to be long, eh?

It depends on lots of things which you haven't told us --
terrain, equipment, your previous experience and
conditioning -- but I would expect a beginning bike rider
to ride about 10 mph. So that's 7 hours on-bike time. A
beginner is probably going to average a stop every hour
-- in this case, every ten miles. So figure another hour
just in little breaks, plus add at least another 30
minutes for lunch.

I'm totaling about 8.5 hours here for you. I wouldn't do it
straight from couch potato-dom, though -- it'll be much
easier to handle if you work up to
it.

Tell us more -- your bike, your location, your experience,
and we can be much more helpful.

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Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:13:02 GMT, <yXixc.551$jw.82@attbi_s04>,

Claire Petersky said:

I'm totaling about 8.5 hours here for you. I wouldn't do it
straight from couch potato-dom, though -- it'll be much
easier to handle if you work up to
it.

uhh, yeah. Preparation is definitely important.

Considering the average fitness levels for the general
population the probability of successfully completing the
ride without preparation is extremely remote.

We've seen enough posters here to know that a ten whole
miles all at once is a significant accomplishment for
plenty of them.

Even active non-cyclist wunderkids would be hard pressed to
ride 70 miles their first time out. They burn themselves out
too quick.

My legs were jelly after twenty miles (32km) when I started
back. I'd been riding a kick scooter for about 4 months and
walking most everywhere for about 3 years. I was hardly a
couch potato but still wanted to puke at the top of the
first climb.
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zk

It depends on a variety of factors such as terrain, wind
direction, how much of a load you are carrying, your
physical condition, etc.

On an unloaded bicycle over fairly level terrain with the
wind not being a factor, I typically can sustain a speed of
about 13 mph for several hours (I'm in my late 50's and
moderately fit). Many years ago, when bicycle camping with
lots of gear (tent, sleeping bag, cooking utensils) in hilly
southern Indiana, I would typically ride 70 miles a day. But
if I was going into a strong headwind, sometimes 40-50 miles
was a hard day's ride. Other times, with the wind at my
back, 100 miles was no big deal.

So, like I say, it depends.

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Zoot Katz said:

Even active non-cyclist wunderkids would be hard pressed
to ride 70 miles their first time out. They burn
themselves out too quick.

In my mid/late-teens I did rides out to Haney, Mission and
even Hope and back with friends & associates, often on
borrowed Apollo 10-speeds, and I wasn't seriously into
training or anything like that, and it was no big deal -- it
was just something for a bunch of kids to do.

So I encourage the original poster to go for it,
_with_other_people_. Only, if [s]he can: take a camera. I
wish I had pix to look back on those wonderful trips.

cheers, Tom

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[quote="Tom Keats"]In article <[email hidden]>, Zoot

Katz said:

Even active non-cyclist wunderkids would be hard pressed
to ride 70 miles their first time out. They burn
themselves out too quick.

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[quote="Quoted message"] In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Even active non-cyclist wunderkids would be hard pressed
to ride 70 miles their first time out. They burn
themselves out too quick.

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Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spamshaw.ca said:

I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-) A 3
1/2 day trip.

Quoted message said:

cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

.. or 100 miles.

Quoted message said:

if you do a couple of circles in the parking lot of the
campground, so back to Vancouver would be 320k...a good
day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down
steep embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars
at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a
century, but I'm not sure about that.

cheers, Tom

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