Expecting to buy a 505 or 605 for Xmas?
I think BT means the distance not the model (as our resident comic no doubt knows). So now we have segwayed to bike mileage and seeing how everything I have ever logged looked teenie weenie against BT (and others) impressive mileages, event numbers and results etc I am (briefly no doubt) making a claim for a higher mileage "training ride". I have done Around the Bay (216 km) but that included drafting racing bikes etc. So my best (and Debbie's too) is Crystal Falls to Escanaba, Michigan USA 25/07/1997 : 123km in about 7 hours on fully loaded touring bikes (4 panniers, handlebar bag and a backpack on each bike + small tent on my rack under backpack). We had to keep the pace up a bit over our usual leisurely style due to loosing a hour crossing a time zone that day.
Other claimaints please form orderly queue here:
Really long rides aren't usually my style; the longest I've done is 85km from Blairgowrie to Brighton on Christmas Day 2001, during the early stages of a layoff from what turned out to be compartment syndrome.