Nope should be quite do-able

Bit more to go wrong if you fall asleep at the helm than just crash into a muddy woodland though………..I’d be quite concerned about the road safety aspect of riding whilst sleep deprived.

24 hour time trials are fairly common, some huge distances are racked up

I’m doing a 200-miler in late July. Planning on about 14 hours of riding (road this is…)

200 in 24 should be failry straight foreward, Monksie’s doing 190 ish in daylight in a couple of weeks. I attempted to do the same but couldn’t find time to do any long rides so wont be.

I found that after about 5 or 6 hours it just becomes a case of energy in = energy out so as long as I kept eating the legs would keep turning, speed dropped a little, but not as much as I’d have expected it to (dropped from 15mph average to about 13).

Mentaly it’s a f**** joke though, after 7 hours I started talking/swearing/crying to myself, and not in a concious kinda way like you do on an MTB trying to psyke youself up for a jump, the first i was aware was wondering what the voice was in the middle of nowhere!

On the plus side there’s not much that beats the feeling of setting off just after after dawn, and getting back and looking out the window and the suns gone down. Propper all day rides!

not at all, i’ve just ridden on Saturday Edinburgh to Bolton (212 miles in 15 hours)

schedule 2 or 3 stops to get off the bike and re fuel. you’ll be fine

doable. grim tho.

I’d imagine 350 miles would be doable. With 300 being a nice goal to aim for.

541 though, that’s amazing!

+1. Won’t you get massively bored?

i flew* past andy wilkinson like he was stood still, to be fair, he was laden down with panniers and iirc was on his way from a plane journey to stoke or somewhere for the rttc dinner. Did exchange a few pleasant words

*i may have been going only marginally faster

“doable. grim tho.

+1. Won’t you get massively bored?
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depends where

done the snow roads 300k audax 3 times now and never got bored of the views

done the durness duress in horrific weather but the views were spectacular again.

Have you thought about the SDD?
192 miles mostly off road.
Alot more interesting and safer than 24hrs on the road.
Or set yourself a 200 mile challenge and see how fast you can complete it .

Depends what bores you, the advantage of road riding is there are a lot of roads and places to go whereas MTB tends to involve laps or riding in circles otherwise you run out of mountain, so a 400mile ride can be one long straight line, ticking off the towns/vilages/scenary as you go. Suppose its alsoa motivation issue, you have to be motivated by the sense of achievement and the actual cycling itself rather than the sometimes ADHD world of MTB. e.g I’m quite happy doing a days uplift DH, or riding for 100 miles on the moors and don’t find either boring (although uplifting is a bit dull and lacking in any achievement sometimes, I’d rather do an enduro and ride 2x 15 min tracks under my own steam than the same 4 min track 10 times with a cattle truck).

I did 150 miles in 11.5 hours a couple of weeks ago and I’m a fat biffa.

Dunwich dynamo this weekend. 120 miles in 8 or 9 hours at a sociable pace. Always fun (not done it in the rain yet so that statement could change…..).

If you can keep 15mph average in hilly country (peaks) then I would have thought that 200m in 24hrs is not that much of a task to set, we’re planning on trying to do the entire chilterns cycleway (185miles) in a dawn to dusk ride next summer. My brother has done about 440 miles in 24, but its not something I’d ever want to do.

I’m doing 220’ish miles in 13 hours on the 14th July. You should be able to do 221’ish in 24 🙂

many people do well over 200 miles in a 12hr time trial and well in excess of 300 in a 24hr on the road the good blokes do approaching 300 in a 12 and 500 in a 24 LEJOG record is about 44 hours

A friend and I did a 24hr road ride for a bit of a laugh once. I was less fit then and 95 miles was about the most I’d done on a bike. We rode from Leeds out through Malham and the Yorkshire dales, up to the lakes, around Coniston and then back via Hawes and Layburn. 253 miles and not a flat route at all, but interesting and quite fun.

4am start on a Saturday morning is good for recovery by Monday morning.

Kuko, Ran a 42:18