Bicycling Australia

Your Turn

FOLLOWING AN ONLINE ARTICLE about an 82yo English rider who recently passed one million miles by bike, we asked our readers for their stories…here are just a few of the responses.

DEAR EDITOR,

I started riding in my early 40s and am now 76 years old and would have easily have reached 1.5 million km over those years.

I guess I have had the opportunity to have organised (and ridden) a heap of charity cycle rides around the whole of Australia to

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