So how many miles did you rack up in 2009?

Me, I just ride my bike 'cos I enjoy it, no record of any miles kept, just let my riding do the talking, mostly when I fall on my arse.

4200miles for me, in 320hours. As with HH45 above, riding is better quantified in hours than miles when you ride more than one discipline.

Just over 5000 for me. What I expected to do but not as much as I wanted. I *wanted* to ride about 18,000.

Matt[/url] nearly did, all well documented, virtually all offroad, hilly and fast.

somewhere around 4000 for me, mixture of commuting and off road.

Kev

1785 miles for me with a mix of off road and road.Along with a big hill around every corner.This is very good for me.I plan on doing even more in 2010.
Some of you guys have done more cycling miles than i have done in my car.Well done.

Agree with Dougal/others that time is a better quantification, but less good for willy waving certainly.

Not totally sure for me, as I didn't have any way of measuring it for a while, but 4524.7 excluding about 2.5 months, they were easy months though, so probably about 5000 for me, plus a hundred or so running, all of which felt harder than any of the riding!

I'm sorry George, you said that your riding takes you "25-30 (hours) or thereabouts".

Right… quick maths lesson for you!

18000 miles, spread equally over 52 weeks is 346 miles/week.

If that took you 25 hours, that's an average of 13.84mph. Now, let's allow for 20% faffing time (surely not when you're training?!), so 20 hours riding/week (which is extremely doable I know), that's an average of 17mph.

Where do the 26mph rides figure in all this, or even the 20mph rides?! And you've STILL not answered me how you find groups that go out after your kids are in bed, in the dark, and knock out 26mph. As for that being with a tail wind, do you just ride point to point!? Surely the vast majority of rides will have equal amounts of head/tail/cross winds!?

Perhaps you do in fact spend 20% of every ride with your cock in your hand waving it to all and sundry. It would explain a number of things…

Or… perhaps you're genuinely deluded.

njee20 – in the time taken to do those sums you coulda done a good few miles toward 2010's total mileage 😉

Already done 4 hours on the MTB this morning, and having ended up on my arse on the ice that was enough! I imagine it'll be a while before I get a response as he's no doubt out doing 800 miles at 59mph, having driving 3200 miles this morning.

Odd fellow.

Just over 1900 miles for me, which is about what I've done each year for the last three years. Nowhere near as much as I'd like, but life, work and family get in the way of riding.

About 5% of my year's total was on one day in September in Kielder forest 🙂

well ' surrounded by idiots' ( GL) – i kinda know how much training he does and would say he would be doing roughly that. 20 hours of cycling a week aint that much. TAke a 2 hour commute a day plus 5 at the weekend then it aint all that. I would guesstimate i've done about 12000 this year.
2 weeks commuting to work at 74 miles round trip, 15 weeks at my previous job commuting to work at 40 miles round trip, 30 weeks commuting to work in new job at 27 miles round trip. Had 1 week in new york, 1 week in malaga, 1 week in Gran Canaria, 2 weeks ill, off the bike. Done plenty off road rides close to or over 100 miles, rode on all my days off on MTB with varying miles and done plenty of night rides after work where per day i could be doing 70 miles ( including commuting) plus kielder 100, merida 135 sat and 60 sun plus pedal for scotland Glasgow to Edinburgh return @ 110 miles.

All in all about 12000k miles, possibly more

4900 miles, roughly 50/50 split on/off road.

so, radoggair, find the time to do half as much again as what you rode and you'd be getting somewhere close to SBI's mileage? That's doing half of what you rode again! Puts his (claimed) mileage into perspective.

**** me! Now everybody's been blown out of the water by radoggair!!!

All in all about 12000k miles, possibly more

12 million miles really is going some! 😐

That's a hell of a lot.
Sadly my only high mileage years were up to 1992, with a weekly commute of 370 miles a week (Leighton buzzard>London) plus Hemel Hempstead club 10 every Tuesday, MK Bowl Crit every Thursday and a road race Sunday about 500 miles a week.
However with months of no racing (off season) holidays etc it only came to 17K

Bloody hell,

I genuinely consider myself a died in the wool, full time cyclist, and can hold my own (not talking willys here) over longish distances, yet I doubt I've topped 2500 miles…

I'd be very single very fast if i tried to double that, let alone octuple it! 😯

Plus, have we not argued average speeds on here before? 😉

So NJee20 – still think I'm telling porkies?

**** me! Now everybody's been blown out of the water by radoggair!!!

thats willy waving for you!!

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so, radoggair, find the time to do half as much again as what you rode and you'd be getting somewhere close to SBI's mileage? That's doing half of what you rode again! Puts his (claimed) mileage into perspective.

Fair enough, firstly mines circa that amount, it prob is more than that TBveryH and o.k. 18k is alot but i wouldn't say it was difficult. This year ( once this bloody snow goes), i hope to be getting up to that amount. Its not about willy waving, but for people like me its about the great feeling i get whilst out on my bike. If i had a huge local group that biked i would easily top 20k. I'm lucky to have a great biking mate who lives nearby and apart from our weekend rides we will prob do alot more night riding this year and apart from that i dont mind doing 100+ miles on my own
I also know that SBI is very lucky to have Glentress and inners on his doorstep and rides with extremely local people so getting out on the bike isn't an issue to himself or others around him. He also does alot of road riding and he's right to say that (even without a tailwind) hitting an average of 26mph in a good cycling group is attainable.
Basically, 18k is alot but lets face it if your willing to put in the time then 350 miles per week isn't difficult at all so instead of being very negative, people like SBI should be applauded for there miles they've covered on their bike. Offsets his CARbon pollution i guess ( see what i did there)

Offsets his CARbon pollution i guess ( see what i did there)

the bovine digestive system produces an awful lot of carbon so that de-offsets it again.

the bovine digestive system produces an awful lot of carbon so that de-offsets it again.

yeah, but everytime he farts he plants a tree. He has now just re-de-offset it 😉

Jesus wept! I can see how you have so much time to ride and drive, it's because you never learnt to read!

My issue is not particularly with your distance (it seems unlikely given results etc, but certainly possible), but your absurb comments about have you've done it, not to mention your numerous contradictions, and total failure to answer any questions about yourself. Who the **** boasts about their epic VO2max then refuses to say what it is. Get over yourself.

And AGAIN, where are you finding group rides that go out and do 26mph in the dark, with a permanent tail wind?

And surely suggesting that people like George should be commended for their carbon offsetting when he boasted about having driven a million miles is as hilarious as some of his comments on here?

NJee – You live in or are from Surrey, I wouldnt expect you to understand.

Go njee20.

Glupton – you do make claims that you cannot substantiate and that appear ridiculous. I believe you ride a lot. Maybe half of what you claim.

350 miles a week. thats 50 miles a day every day. But you won't ride every single day – you will miss a few. Its the same as your "million miles claim. Massivly overestimated Bollox.

TJ – Have you ever met me?

Same question to NJee20.

And surely suggesting that people like George should be commended for their carbon offsetting when he boasted about having driven a million miles is as hilarious as some of his comments on here?

Technically he didn't do those miles. Do you know his profession??

Njee, it was a tongue in the cheek joke so get your head out of your arse and smell the coffee. He said he did 18k miles, PROVE he didn't. If you cant then shut up and deal with it. We dont question your claims.

And AGAIN, where are you finding group rides that go out and do 26mph in the dark, with a permanent tail wind?

Me and 3 or 4 people on here who i know could sit at an average of 26mph in the dark/rain/whatever without a tailwind all day long. Its fast but in a group it aint that if everyone's pushing it.

lol this forum has certainly amused me.

My instincts tell me that "I'm surrounded by idiots" is exaggerating massively.

25-30 hours a week? Not really racing at a high level? Very suspicious links to Adidas with no way of proof? No results to show?

If you are taking rest days with that (if you are not, then you have probably plateaued your fitness months ago and should probably take some) then you are talking averages even higher than those that others on here have worked out. That also means if you are taking time off (Christmas/winter period) they are higher still. Irina Kalentieva (World XC champion) does 18000 km a year. A WORLD CHAMPION. She is a full-time athlete and you claim to work.

I would advise either that you stop telling lies to impress people on the internet, or start to train smarter. 30 hours a week isn't even done by the pro teams and it is silly. Average of over 4 hours a day, every day? Where is your recovery? Longer ride at the weekend on top of that?

If we accept you actually do this milage and time on the bike, your fitness isn't going to be what it could be. You state your V02 in great? So you are training at threshold a lot then? Without rest days? Something doesn't add up mate I'm afraid.

Do you know his profession??
he has about 7, doesn't he?
driving instructor/F1 test driver/1st year physio student/fully trained physio/olympic level athlete/rainbow jersey-winning bullsh1tter/astronaut.

Not that I am aware of. However I can do simple arithmetic and I know the smell of bullshine.

I believe you ride a lot of miles and you do it fast. I do not believe an average of 350 miles a week. Its the same as your million mile claim.

tombell – maybe I just like riding my bike. Also – have you met me?

TJ – if you have never met me how can you claim to know what I am or am not doing?

Njee, it was a tongue in the cheek joke so get your head out of your arse and smell the coffee. He said he did 18k miles, PROVE he didn't. If you cant then shut up and deal with it. We dont question your claims.

Get your head out of your arse and read my posts you idiot! I'm not particularly calling into question his alleged distance, it is plausible. What I am questioning is comments about riding 25-30 hours a week, and yet doing rides with 26mph averages, although all his mid-week rides are done after his kids are in bed. There's a lot of shit flying around here!

I love how geography has now come into it. You're from Scotland, so you're poorly educated, and a raging alcholic-heroin-addict, so I wonder if you're able to even ride a bike at all.

In the olden days 😐 350/week was considered a minimum ammount for an entry level competative cyclist.

No idea, probably about 700-1000. About 5-6 miles a day most days. Need to do more this year, gonna try to get out on more group rides as it motivates me so much more.

njee – kids are in bed by 7. i have lights – go figure. I can ride on great quiet roads and world class trails right from my door. it makes a huge difference…

I don't know what the problem is here. My old commute was 37 miles each way in all weathers.
On Tuesdays I rode my race bike to work and rode the Hemel 10 before going home.
On Thursdays I met a mate in Hemel and we drove to Milton Keynes and raced there, then I cycled home.
Sundays I often did a road race of about 60 miles.
So if I did a full on week I'd clock up about 450 miles a week. Of course I didn't compete every week.
However with all that emphasis on mileage I never got higher than 3rd Cat.

love how geography has now come into it. You're from Scotland, so you're poorly educated, and a raging alcholic-heroin-addict, so I wonder if you're able to even ride a bike at all.

Hey, less of the heroin stuff. I was poorly educated though i was brought up for most of my life ( and certainly my educateionnal ) in English schools.
You must get 2 gold stars for A/ copying my head up the arse comment and B/ hitting me with a great comeback.

2 gold stars = Obviously a crap rider then

I don't know what the problem is here.
that's probably because you don't have a history of talking complete bollox on a regular basis 🙂

AndyP – Have you ever met me? No you haven't – so what makes you an expert on my life?

what makes you an expert on my life?

are you now denying you troll on here ?
Think that might be the problem her you are prone to statements designed to elicit a reaction [lies, BS, half truths devils advocate whatever].

You cant really be surprised that people are questioning you on this claim ?

Personally I think it is doable but I have no idea whether by the OP or at claimed averages.

Hey man, I like riding my bike. I love it. I train about 15 hours a week myself.

There is no way I can prove you otherwise, so I'll save you throwing that one at me. I haven't met you and am not making judgements on you as a personality.

I have the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales to train within, so I too have some great riding. But unless this is the only thing in your life though, its hard to believe. Do you not have other things to do, places to go, lie ins, illness? I too love riding my bike and training. But mentally and physically, there are limits. I can comprehend that other people are different to me so I'll save you saying that too, but what you are saying is mathematically, pretty ludicrous.

Either you have tremendous motivation (not sure where this is coming from as you don't seem to have any means for this volume other than 'you like riding your bike') or you are lying. Only you know I guess…