No, Million Mile Freddy. Contrary to comon belief it is extremely hard to put in over 150,000 miles
on a bike in a lifetime. People who really push hard over a long period of time are rare. There are
some racers who put in some pretty phenomenal mileage during their careers but they have short
careers and they stop riding when they leave racing.
Consider, 200 mile weeks is only 10,200 mile years. When was the last time you did a 10,000 mile
year? I live in an area with great weather and even when I was off work the best year I put in was a
little less than 7,000 miles.
I average something like 5,000 miles a year and that would take me 40 years without a bad year to
achieve 200,000 miles.
When you hear people talking about long miles they usually don't really have any evidence such as
logs and notes. Million Mile Freddy and Dan Tonelli have ride logs that note every single ride
they've ever done.
Dan used to get up early and ride 50 miles, then go to work and then after he got off work he would
ride another 50 just to get a 20,000 mile year because he was competing against another guy in our
club (who broke down and died BTW) for one year high mileage. Now it's true that Dan's a fair
weather rider but in the San Francisco bay area you only lose 20 days a year to rain and most of
those are work days.
If someone like Tonelli can expect to make a lifetime mileage of 400,000 miles you can bet that most
mileage claims are pure hot air.
"Tom Paterson" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >From: "Tom Kunich"
>
> >there is one guy in the US who has well over 1,000,000.
>
> Scott Dickson?
>
> From:
<http://www.milly.org/hkingman/pbp_history.html> or
>
>
<http://tinyurl.com/v86z>
>
> << American Scott Dickson began his glory years by placing third in
1979, though
> at just less than 49 hours he was four hours behind the winners. In
1983 he
> again came third, this time by only one hour. He won his first PBP
in 1987 by
> breaking away in Brest, aided by a strong tailwind and a few strong
riders from
> the "touring" group, which that year started many hours before the
"racing"
> group. Dickson also won in 1991 and in 1995.>>
>
> Known "back when" for cranking out 100 miles a day, every day.
Probably missed
> a few. --Tom Paterson
