- In my seemingly never-ending quest to find out
more and more about professional cyclists,
today I wanna find out
what's the longest bike ride you've ever done?
What was it for, why were you doing it,
and what were you thinking?
Come on, let's go and find out.
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What's the longest ride you've ever done?
- No less than Ramone.
- Yeah, well for entertainment?
- With neutral, went about fringe ten one year,
think when I won it, it was like, and then we rode
to the hotel--
- Afterwards?
- Yeah, well it's only about five K away.
- Still.
- Probably that's the longest one I've done.
- Yeah every bit counts.
Right, Adam, what's the longest bike ride you've ever done?
- 204, no, 349 K, Manchester to Surrey.
- That was last year, wasn't it?
- It was last year.
- Yeah I remember seeing you doing that
and thinking bit crazy.
Why did you do that?
- Well I've got some, we live in Manchester
and got some family down in Surrey
and I always said I wanted to do it so one day I was like,
right, here we go, lets do it, and it was good actually,
just on my own, cruising along, yeah.
32 average.
- That's alright, I mean you must have a tail wind?
- Nope.
- No? Head wind all the way?
- It's like, a little bit of both.
A little bit of both wind.
- I'd say, I think it was seven, seven and a half hours,
nothing stupid, some guys with eight, nine hours,
I think Richie did 400 Ks, I know that's silly.
I'm a little bit more sane, I think, than someone like him,
but yeah I think seven, seven and a half.
- Yeah, was that just a training ride or,
wait it can't be training--
- Yeah, training.
- Really?
- Yeah, was all by myself, dark period of my life (laughs).
But yeah it was solid.
- I think about 260,
we're talking about one day, I'm guessing.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah 260 or 270 kilometres, I think.
- Was that a race or training?
- Um, I think I've since done it in a race,
but that time it was just a trip across France
with my brother.
- Oh nice.
- Yeah, on holiday, going between the two places
we were staying.
- Excellent, wow, he's good at playing, isn't it,
seen him around at airports.
- Sure does.
- What's the longest bike ride you've ever been on,
other than the tour?
- In non race conditions?
- Yeah or in a race actually.
- I don't know, racing it would be,
I would say is the 20 Sanjera.
Training; I don't really do long training rides
cause it's just, I think it's I can, you know.
- Quality not quantity?
- Yeah, exactly yeah, and if I do go out,
I do many kilometres at all, I generally average about
23 K an hour, it's like, the kilometres go out the window,
but yeah, six and a half hours is my max in training,
absolute max.
- Ah mate it was last year in, I reckon it was October,
I went with a couple of mates from Vienna to Budapest,
so it was about 326 with a couple of points.
- Just a couple I'm sure. (laughs)
- I don't actually, I think probably was the stage
of tour of Poland and it was like,
with the neutral and everything 250,
260 something like that.
That was kilometres I don't know, hours wise, probably like,
when I was a junior I did something like eight hours once.
- Did you get lost?
- No, it just took longer than we expected.
- I probably have to say Milan-San Remo,
I'm not one to get out of home
and try and break any records.
- It's funny you say that, Kav was exactly the same,
longest race he's ever, well longest ride he's ever done so.
- Uh, I did the Seattle Portland ride with my dad
couple years back and it's 215 miles something like that,
so, 300 and something K.
- What were you thinking at the time,
just you wanted to get to the end,
have a beer with your dad or?
- Yeah, it was mostly enjoyable cause we weren't racing
just ridin' along and my cousin came as well so it was,
it was actually, it was a blast but by hour 15 or so,
I think we were pretty ready for a beer.
- 260 kilometres, oh well training ride or race?
- Training, well either or race.
- Yeah I guess, 260 or something kilometres,
something around there.
About seven and a half hours, yeah it was yeah.
- So it was brutal isn't it?
- Yeah.
- I'm talking about longest bike ride
but that's the longest walk I've ever done,
I think I parked the car around here somewhere.
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you've ever done down there in the comments section,
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