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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Your lack of detail will make answering your question very difficult.

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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.

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cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

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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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