Total Mileage Ridden

EMS · Post by **EMS** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:25 am

With the ride to our usual Tuesday night Ride-In, I logged just over 8,000 miles on my motorcycles so far this year.
Considering that I am
- not an Iron Butt rider
- employed, and have to spend more time in the office than I can on a
motorcycle
- hauling more than one bike over long distances to meetings/rallies in a
trailer

I am rather proud of myself. The season is not quite over yet, we have a few more rides planned and as I started this year on May 5, this is only 18 weeks so far, which makes it an average of approx. 450 miles per week.

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:16 pm

Sounds good! I haven't ever checked my mileage per week but 450 is pretty good for someone who...trailers some of the time.

karl sparks · Post by **karl sparks** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:23 am

When I was using My X as a commuter. Was ridding 1000 miles a week for awhile. Thats why the old girl has 165k on her.

alimey4u2 · Post by **alimey4u2** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:39 am

A total of about 4000 here, not all on one bike though..

Mike Barone #123 · Post by **Mike Barone #123** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:28 am

karl sparks wrote:When I was using My X as a commuter. Was ridding 1000 miles a week for awhile. Thats why the old girl has 165k on her.

Impressive and amazing Karl.........mini lesson here......it can still be done and on a CBX.

Back in the day best I ever did was maybe 10-12k per year....now that the Dawgie is back and on the road again I am thinking half that would how it will work out in 2010 for me....but will go for more

Don · Post by **Don** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:31 am

5 to 6K on da Dawgie next year? I hope I'm around to see most of those!!

I did about that many last year . . . . 98% of them on the CBX. I have to force myself to ride the KLR anymore - At least until I can convince a few of your guys that we ought to do the Continental Divide ride. Next year would be PERFECT for that . . . . after we finish the 2700 off-road miles from Canada to Mexico, we could meet up with Rick in Colorado and put some miles on the X's

That would make for a great year!

Don

steve murdoch icoa #5322 · Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:39 am

Very impressive, EMS.

EMS · Post by **EMS** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:44 am

steve murdoch icoa #5322 wrote:Very impressive, EMS.

Well...let's not overdo it

I wouldn't call it impressive, but for me, with limited time to ride, it is pretty decent. Actually, my best in the last five years.

alimey4u2 · Post by **alimey4u2** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:06 pm

To be honest, several of our UK members rode their CBX's to Germany & back, some of them very very nice customs & the mileage & pace didn't put them off...We had zero failures in our group although Ian had some problems.

I was indeed impressed, forgetting the quality of Japanese engineering... I mean, I've lived with the bike for 30 odd years & am still learning...

EMS · Post by **EMS** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:25 pm

My 79 is a little fickle, and I wouldn't trust it on a longer ride, but my 81, I would take anywhere, together with anybody riding a new bike.
But because of comfort features, like fairing and bags, the Prolink runs circles around the 79 for longer trips anyway.

RudyF6 · Post by **RudyF6** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:02 pm

Life kinda' got in my way this year - I only have 4-5,000 under my tires between 2 bikes. That would normally be closer to 10,000. The only reason it got as good as it did was riding to the Mega-Rally in June. (Sure would like to do THAT again!

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harvey · Post by **harvey** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:44 pm

Well the year is not over so there will be a number of miles ridden between now and 12/31.

I don't have any projection of how many miles I will ride but I know the mileage on the CBX will be down from past years. I do not ride it as a commuter a couple days a week anymore. Or any other bike for that matter.

So inspite of the 1300+ miles I did going to and from the wonderful get together Dave and Bob had for us up in Brookville, PA, my mileage for the year will be down somewhat.