A domestic fuel shortage driven by Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries has prompted rural residents in Russia to replace personal vehicles with working horses.
Bikes can typically go further than horses in a days travel. Unless you have a lot of horses to switch through and have them positioned along your route.
Maybe the info I found online is wrong but looks like a horse and rider can go about 50km a day. Going by Google maps that is around 3 hours by bike and their times I find are not too far off a casual bike ride for someone who doesn’t do any racing training.
If you have a racing bike and use it frequently then then you could probably cut it down to easily under 2 hours.
To give another point of data.
People walking pilgrimages like El Camino de Santiago de Compostela routinely walk 23 km (14 miles) per day for multiple weeks. And those are people in all kind of shapes and ages, including slow walking grandparents. Trained people can do twice more.
Humans are really good at long distance, not just athlets. Modern life made us forget about it and anything longer than 5 km sounds impressive.
Exactly, a day is a long time. You can take breaks along the way and don’t have to push yourself for speed. When I was in my teens the local scout group often went to the next town over, about a 20km round trip. No one trained for it, some people may have been a little tired by the end of it but not excessively so and it was fun.
Similar trips done both walking and cycling, of course cycling it takes much less time. Even our school ran a bike trip at the end of the year, wish I measured the distance but certainly 10s of km as it was pretty much a full school day riding. Minus maybe an hour at the start of the day to check over bikes and a bit for lunch.
Here up to 3 miles each way is considered a reasonable distance for kids over the age of 8 to walk or cycle to school - which comes to just under 50km in total over 5 days. Above that distance assistance can be offered by the local government.
…you say that and yet I randomly switched bus to bike to ride to work and nothing happened except tired legs. And I was doing 63km weekly.
3 hours to go 50 km is bullshit for someone who didn’t train tho. In 4 hours, maybe. Person that isn’t used to biking will need more frequent breaks and will travel at lower speed.
3 hours is what Google maps suggested. For that distance then yeah maybe first time riding it will take a bit longer. Also type of bike would influence it a fair bit too.
My current bike commute is 80km a week and I just started doing it when getting the job because it isn’t that far.
Longer distances…? Why not walk and save the money than?
Bikes can typically go further than horses in a days travel. Unless you have a lot of horses to switch through and have them positioned along your route.
You would have to be in incredible shape for that.
For the vast majority of people, a horse would be able to take them further than they could themselves on a bike.
Maybe the info I found online is wrong but looks like a horse and rider can go about 50km a day. Going by Google maps that is around 3 hours by bike and their times I find are not too far off a casual bike ride for someone who doesn’t do any racing training.
If you have a racing bike and use it frequently then then you could probably cut it down to easily under 2 hours.
What? It’s recommended you don’t go more than 3-5 miles on your first few bike outings until you’re capable of going longer.
Those lengths you’re suggesting requires training like marathons.
People train to travel 50km by bike in a week, let alone a day or a single outing.
Maybe you’re thinking of ecycles and other non manual bikes?
To give another point of data.
People walking pilgrimages like El Camino de Santiago de Compostela routinely walk 23 km (14 miles) per day for multiple weeks. And those are people in all kind of shapes and ages, including slow walking grandparents. Trained people can do twice more.
Humans are really good at long distance, not just athlets. Modern life made us forget about it and anything longer than 5 km sounds impressive.
Exactly, a day is a long time. You can take breaks along the way and don’t have to push yourself for speed. When I was in my teens the local scout group often went to the next town over, about a 20km round trip. No one trained for it, some people may have been a little tired by the end of it but not excessively so and it was fun.
Similar trips done both walking and cycling, of course cycling it takes much less time. Even our school ran a bike trip at the end of the year, wish I measured the distance but certainly 10s of km as it was pretty much a full school day riding. Minus maybe an hour at the start of the day to check over bikes and a bit for lunch.
Training to cycle 50km in a week? Lol wtf.
Here up to 3 miles each way is considered a reasonable distance for kids over the age of 8 to walk or cycle to school - which comes to just under 50km in total over 5 days. Above that distance assistance can be offered by the local government.
For me it was more like 30-40km from 11 onwards.
…you say that and yet I randomly switched bus to bike to ride to work and nothing happened except tired legs. And I was doing 63km weekly.
3 hours to go 50 km is bullshit for someone who didn’t train tho. In 4 hours, maybe. Person that isn’t used to biking will need more frequent breaks and will travel at lower speed.
3 hours is what Google maps suggested. For that distance then yeah maybe first time riding it will take a bit longer. Also type of bike would influence it a fair bit too.
My current bike commute is 80km a week and I just started doing it when getting the job because it isn’t that far.
I think it’s more a question of terrain and load.
And base level fitness.