re: How far away from home did you ride your bike when you were a kid ?

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At 14 I was making routine 50 mile loops pretty much every afternoon.

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you're getting down voted but if you were involved in the amateur bicycle racing scene 50 mile training rides were nothing.

I have friends who have kids younger than that participating in races and in fact a 14yo won a particularly grueling cat4 road race with 50+other riders.

Little piece of shite.

At 14 if you're fit you have a huge advantage on the climbs in a race because the little pecker wood weighed less than 100lbs.

8.7 miles one way to the pool where the rich girls would lay out, did it 3 or 4 times a week. That's a pretty good trip on a 20" Mongoose, my mom had no idea we were going that far, just had to be home by dark.