Longest Bicycle Ride

The summer of 1974 Murph decided to ride his bicycle, a G. Lapierre, back to college across the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.  His confidence came from having completed his second Wilkes-Barre 100, a 100 miles loop from downtown Wilkes-Barre, PA out to the small towns and mountaintops outside of town and returning downtown.  Due to the multiple elevation changes it was called "The Toughest 100 in the East."

The higlighted roads are the route taken
from Bloomsburg, PA to Crawfordsville, IN

The local paper in Bloomsburg documented the successful completion

Murph's girlfriend at the time built this plaque
 including postcards Murph wrote from 4 of his stops

The ride even made the front page
of my fraternity newsletter!

The rest of the story.

Murph rode this Century Bicycle Ride in 1973 & 74
this article was found at this link.