6 km's

My giraffe distance record is 50 miles/75km, shared with Bradley
Bradley. We did this in the March of Dimes SuperRide in 1980 at
Detroit's Belle Isle. I say 50/75 because they listed the ride as 75km,
but I think they had recently made the switch from miles (to get more
sponsorship dollars) but I don't know if they actually changed the
length of the route. Everybody called it 50 miles.

We were on Schwinn Giraffes with 48:28 gear ratios. We were the first to
start and the last to finish. And boy did our crotches hurt before they
got numb! This was followed by painful urination. Oh the things you'll
do when you're 18! After that we agreed not to do such a long ride again
until we had big wheels...

The geared-up Schwinns were kind of hard to ride, and very hard to
freemount. Speed was good, but you were still on a little 20" wheel and
6' above the ground!


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Besides the bridges with low railings, another interesting obstacle is
low overhead pedestrian bridges that the bike trail passes under. There
is a low pedestrian bridge over a local Seattle bike path. The first
time you come to it on a 6-foot giraffe you wonder if you can duck low
enough to make it under. Then when you do duck low enough to make it
under you realize that it would be very bad to have a UPD right then.
It is possible to make it under that bridge on a 6-foot giraffe but I
don't think I would try it if I had a Camelbak on my back unless I saw
Greg Harper do it first while wearing a Camelbak.


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Besides the bridges with low railings, another interesting obstacle is
low overhead pedestrian bridges that the bike trail passes under. There
is a low pedestrian bridge over a local Seattle bike path. The first
time you come to it on a 6-foot giraffe you wonder if you can duck low
enough to make it under. Then when you do duck low enough to make it
under you realize that it would be very bad to have a UPD right then.
It is possible to make it under that bridge on a 6-foot giraffe but I
don't think I would try it if I had a Camelbak on my back unless I saw
Greg Harper do it first while wearing a Camelbak.


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