Great job Claude!
How did your joints and muscles feel afterwards?
I felt great. No joint or muscle soreness or pain. The only discomfort I had at times was saddle soreness. The worst was around 40 miles. I had my doubts about whether I could make it another 60 miles but I kept going and started taking more frequent breaks (about every 10 miles) which helped a lot.
I wonder how many on the list has completed more than one 100 mile ride?
Iāll be going for century number 2 next RAGBRAI. Until thenā¦Iām in no hurry to try it again 
Bruce Dawson has, and I guess technically you could say Lars, Ken, and Sam all have, since they each did more than 200 miles in their 24 hour records.
First, congratulations for making the distance. And, may I just say, the first 17 miles at 15mph - thatās sick, dude. One of these days, I hope to join this list.
Second - the ultimate player/biker was Ed Tignor, a good friend who just emailed me about meeting you, Claude! This guy, right?
Steveyo - yes, thanks for the follow up. He was a nice guy. I met so many people I just couldnāt remember all their names.
thats a long ride i cant imagine 100 miles
Distance on a 24?
I am just courious, what kinds of distances have been completed on a 24"?
I covered 50 off-road miles on my KH24 at a 12 Hour mountain bike race last year (actual time was ~9 1/2 hours)ā¦ That was way more difficult that the on-road metric century I did a couple weeks ago on my 36er! Iām planning on doing another 12 hour on my KH24 next May possibly at Tsaliā¦
One of the more impressive rides Iāve heard of on a 24" was Jack Hughes completing the STP (Seattle to Portland) ride approx 6 years ago. He rode 125 miles the first day and 75 the second IIRC. Tough guy for sure.
āNathan
125 miles?! On a 24"?! Wooooooooowwwwwwwwwā¦
Hello,
tomorrow I will ride 180km (112miles) in one day.
can you give me some important tips.
I think my back would be the biggest problem.
I will ride from DĆ¼sseldorf, Germany along the Rhein to Njimeger, Netherland.
It is a flat route, the hills are only some bridges over the river.
The weather would be sunny with a temperature between 13-18 Ā°C.
Make sure you eat enough - take lots of sweets (I use energy drink in my camelbak too).
Donāt stop for too long, and donāt over do the speed, itās easier to go at a constant speed for ages than to go fast, slow, fast, slow.
If the weather is like you say, then youāve got the perfect day for it as long as there isnāt too much wind.
Other than that, 100 miles is mostly in the mind, if you want to do it, then just keep going and donāt stop until you get there.
Joe
Hello,
I did it today. I rode 165km.
Total time 9h 10min.
Average speed: 21.2km/h
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike (record holder 6hrs44min)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
Ćivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
You can add me to that start of a list, adding yesterdayās El Tour de Tucson to last Mayās Reach The Beach. In yesterdayās I actually managed 111:11:1 with a 100:10:1 on the way.
Another one for the list. Paul Stacey not only did the 100 miles, but went for the 100-10-1 challenge. Paul is a UK unicyclist from the northeast who goes on occasional distance rides. A few months ago, I mentioned the 100-10-1 in passing to Paul and he decided to make it a personal challenge. Before his ride, his longest ride was 50 miles, but this was 2 years ago!
Completed on 12 November. Started at 5:45am (and the sun came up at about 7:30). Only a few short breaks during the route. Finished in 9 hours 30 minutes. Paul went for this completely in the spirit of the 100-10-1. On the night before he decided to go for it and picked his route and planned his food. He didnāt tell anybody he was going for it until he had done 67 miles.
The route:
(Just barely made the full 100 miles - Paul was challenged by his speedometer resetting itself after 20 miles!)
The updated list:
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike (record holder 6hrs44min)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
Ćivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
boisei ā what is your real name?
Paul Stacey
Congrats on the ride!
Iām already in there, itās all good.
Hrm ā¦ or not ā¦
The updated list:
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike (record holder 6hrs44min)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
almost did it today
dose 99.3mi count? i suppose it shouldnāt, since if we were to count that, iād think it might be a āslippery slopeā sort of situation.
i rode today with my friends Crista & Chuck (the pair being a fixture in the DC area long distance biking community). iāve been riding with them on & off for about two and a half years now, longer than iāve been unicycling. they pretty much exclusively ride centuries or longer, and always on a tandem. i guess that background info isnāt really necessary, but i typed it, so itās there. for them, todayās ride was a recovery ride of sorts, as it was their third century in as many days. so i figured, for me, this was as good of an opportunity as i would get to hold a pace close to theirs for 100 miles. even so, i only saw them twice during the ride: they caught up with me around mile 12 (i had given myself a 10-15min head start); and i very briefly caught them at a Sheetz at mile 28. i called them after i finished (it took me about 11 hours including stopped time), and they had finished about 2.5 hours before me. and, of course, it turned out the ride was just shy of 100 full miles. yeah, i could have just gone down a road half a mile and come back, before stoping and packing everything in the car, but yāknow, thatās really hard to do when all you want to do is get off the saddle.
so iāll have to do it again sometime soon. with at least .7 more miles. i think i can do it faster/more comfortably anyways. first change iād make (and i did suspect this would be a problem, going in) would be to get weight off of me and onto the uni: i carried a backpack with a 3l water bladder in it, as well as tolls, pump, 36" tube, and snacks. it was rather heavy, which no doubt made my saddle discomfort worse than what it would have otherwise been. i have a nice bag that iāve used on my coker before, but i took it off a couple weeks ago to use it on one of my bikes and havenāt moved it back over yet. it does make mounting more difficult, but not impossible, and with only 6 dismounts during the entire ride, itās not a huge issue (i have had situations with that bag loaded, when iāve had to walk up or back the road, or mount in the opposite direction i want to go and then U-Turn on order to mount on a downslope). also, while iād say, itās necessary for me to take a break at least once every 20-30mi, iād like to try to make those stops briefer. honestly, that shouldnāt be too hard, itās just a matter of discipline. there are other things i could impove on additionally, but iām going to focus on these two next time i do a long coker ride, and i know i can do a full century in under 10 hours. i just have to figure out when iāll try again.