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A century ride is a bicycle ride of at least 100 miles (160.9 km).

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Why does cycling use a measure of time ("century") as a measure of distance?

If I read Google correctly, it isn't that a century necessarily means 100-years and a bike event borrowed from that. Instead, they are peers of one another. … Thus, a century in time is a collection of a common unit of time (year) and a century in biking is a collection commonly used units of distance (miles) or (km) for a metric century. …
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