{"id":7774,"date":"2014-02-01T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:56","slug":"102-year-old-man-rides-26-927-kilometers-16-7-miles-in-one-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/02\/01\/102-year-old-man-rides-26-927-kilometers-16-7-miles-in-one-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"102 Year Old Man Rides  26.927 kilometers (16.7 miles) in One Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-circle tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/01\\\/102-year-old-man-rides-26-927-kilometers-16-7-miles-in-one-hour\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 1100px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"1100\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 1100px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"1100\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/02\/01\/102-year-old-man-rides-26-927-kilometers-16-7-miles-in-one-hour\/628x471-2\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1096\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1096\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"7775\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/628x471.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"628,418\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"628&amp;#215;471\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/628x471.jpg?fit=600%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/628x471.jpg?fit=628%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/628x471.jpg?w=1096&#038;h=1096&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1096\" height=\"1096\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"1096\" data-original-height=\"1096\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"628x471\" alt=\"628x471\" style=\"width: 1096px; height: 1096px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/world\/article\/102-year-old-cyclist-sets-world-record-5193071.php#photo-5805903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Story<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DW6xcsnqHb0\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a YouTube video of the record he set at age 100 from which we learned:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He weighs 112 pounds<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He lives alone<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He still drives, cooks for himself and cleans his own apartment<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He rides to military music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story Here is a YouTube video of the record he set at age 100 from which we learned: &#8211; He&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/02\/01\/102-year-old-man-rides-26-927-kilometers-16-7-miles-in-one-hour\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nbggrabbag","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-21o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5609,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/09\/01\/giants-79-year-old-ceo-rides-700-mies-a-month-story-in-ny-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":7774,"position":0},"title":"Giant&#8217;s 79 Year-Old CEO Rides 700 Mies a Month &#8211; 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