Okay, *NOW* I'll do the "How Many Miles" Thread....

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

It was 5,000 kilometers for me. As I get older, I find myself riding
more consistently, practically every day I'm home, but taking fewer
long (over 50 mile) rides.

--
Paul Turner

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

4553 on the MadOne in 11 months. A sad little 560 on the Klein Q-carbon
Team (size 55 -- make me an offer! 🙂 ). So just about 5100 miles, plus
maybe another (paltry) 300 or so mtb miles and 100 "dead cyclometer pickup"
miles.

Call it 5500. (Probably well more than both my cars combined; haven't
checked yet.)

Slacker Bill

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

2025 miles on my primary commuter this year.

A total of 4188 combined over my four bikes.

This total is second only to a year which included a
cross country ride nearly 10 years ago. I'm rather
pleased as most of the distance was commuting.

I largely failed in my attempt to do more "joy miles"
this year; miles NOT involving commuting. Did get a
few hundred in touring NW Nebraska and a bit of Iowa
along with a couple organized and personal century
rides.

Will try again in the new year to do more joy miles,
not that commuter miles on a bike aren't joyful too.

Happy New Year rbm!

SMH

Quoted message said:

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

If you are a fan of bad roads, here's some that probably make Santa Cruz
look good.
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html
(Jobst posted this link on another rec.bicycles newsgroup.)

My mileage was down in 2006: just 3437 miles (5500 km).
Causes: (1) no bike tour in 2006, (2) shower remodeling at work closed them
for months, and I got out of the commute habit. Also gained weight in
2006, for some reason 😉

--
Mike Kruger
"We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work
is a four-letter word." --Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

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Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

Happy New Year, Everybody.
Pureheart

3650 miles had to ride 26 miles yesterday to get that....
mike

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

Happy New Year, Everybody.
Pureheart

I managed 6016 miles in 2006. The year started slowly, having started a
new job in December 2005. Once I had figured out where to park the car
in order to do some cycling to & from work the mileage increased. During
the summer months I was regularly doing 35 miles a day on my commute to
work. Unfortunately I live too far from work to commute all the way. It
is 33 miles from home to work & I did do the whole round trip on three
occasions.

Mike

Stephen Harding said:

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.

My odometer(s) (it's been a bad year for me and cyclocomputers) added up
to 3480 miles. That is mostly recreational riding; my commute isn't
(mostly) in that total since it's on other bikes, but that would be 15
miles/week, maybe going in to the office 40 weeks/year, so another 500-600
miles of commuting.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig... You
_`\(,_ | soon find out the pig likes it!
(_)/ (_) |

Mike Kruger said:

[email hidden] wrote:

Quoted message said:

If you are a fan of bad roads, here's some that probably make Santa Cruz
look good.
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html

I drove the Georgian Military highway back in 1977, and it's still
easily the most harrowing drive I've ever done. I probably have a few
pictures somewhere, but really didn't have a great deal of time or
opportunity as it was white-knuckle time through most of the trip.

--

John ([email hidden])

In article <[email hidden]>,
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Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

I managed a mere 1911 miles this year. No tours or organized rides, and no
commute since I work from home, so this was mostly pleasure riding and short
errand-running.

My trusty CatEye cyclometer died yesterday morning midway through my ride to my
father-in-law's house, after nearly 10 years of service. Good thing I got that
Garmin eTrex for Christmas to replace it :-)

--

__o Kristian Zoerhoff
_'\(,_ [email hidden]
(_)/ (_)

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

Happy New Year, Everybody.
Pureheart

Between May and December I made 1443 miles. Mostly rides in the
country. A surgery in November kept me off the bike for 6 weeks.

I replaced my 18-year old Cateye in June after I finally managed to
break it.

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

5584 for the year. It was rainy all day NY Eve to prevent me from
tipping it over. Longest rides: 80.5, 66 and 52 miles. Avg/Day: 15;
avg Apr-Oct: 18.9. Auto gas tank fillups: 3-5 times that I can
recall.

MTB bike and >50 yr age grp, so I am quite happy

Quoted message said:

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

....and Flint Michigan

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Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.
I put on
2,337 Miles in 2006

All riding to and fro to work from Aptos, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. About
1/2 what I used to do going to Watsonville (and not nearly as enjoyable
a route)
but what the heck. I still love bicycles.

Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
has the absolute
worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
York).

Happy New Year, Everybody.
Pureheart

I rode a little over 463 hours of saddle time for the 2006 year.

3188 bike miles, virtually all commuting. 198 bike-to-work days, all
weather, year round. Temps ranged from -10F to 102F. 5th place by
days and miles in ride to work list at work.
<http://tomato.fnal.gov/bicycle/riders.php?data=2006&sort=miles> (click
the gallery and you
can see our superfantastic Fox River Trail commuting pix)

173 car-free days

only 14 hours on the kayak :-(
only 45 miles on my unicycles! :-( :-(

Not as much as i'd hoped to get in in any category, and i'm the bigger
man for it. :-)

..max
St. Charles, Il.

10334 miles

I probably won't get as many miles in 2007. I had some free time to
ride last year.

----------------------------
Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
http://dltsoftware.com/efitness/login?userID=demo&password=demo

My mileage for the year was 18,973, for a total of 249,322 since I
started keeping daily records in 1993. As usual, the heart and soul of
my mileage was the commute to work - a basic ride of 21 miles each way;
frequently I take longer routes. Aside from that, my main trip was
2218 miles, from Key West to Milwaukee on April 21 - May 6. Further
details follow:

Mileage by state:
FL 755
IL 643
GA 396
CA 292
MS 278
AL 223
AR 169
MI 104
MO 89
MN 76
MA 48
NY 42
CT 18

WI - balance

Coldest riding - Minus 15 F on Feb. 18

Hottest Riding - 98 F on July 15

Best mileage - 189 on May 1

Least Mileage - 1 on Oct. 1 - no zero days

Got wet - 24 times that I recorded

Flat tires - 11

Fell once

6,000 miles for me.

Quoted message said:

Well, time to reset the odometers for next year.

I ended up with 5555 miles for the year (unintentionally, I might add;
although when the weather cleared up Sunday afternoon, after I had
totaled everything up, I bypassed a possible ride to maintain that total!).

SAG'ed out of a ride because of the heat in May, managed my first
century in September. Maybe I should add up commuting miles; I'd guess
2500 or so.

Pat

Wow....Impressive stats. I wish I could commute to work....21 miles
each way is a "just right" amount, too.

On 1 Jan 2007 17:53:29 -0800, "Ron Wallenfang" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

My mileage for the year was 18,973, for a total of 249,322 since I
started keeping daily records in 1993. As usual, the heart and soul of
my mileage was the commute to work - a basic ride of 21 miles each way;
frequently I take longer routes. Aside from that, my main trip was
2218 miles, from Key West to Milwaukee on April 21 - May 6. Further
details follow:

Mileage by state:
FL 755
IL 643
GA 396
CA 292
MS 278
AL 223
AR 169
MI 104
MO 89
MN 76
MA 48
NY 42
CT 18

WI - balance

Coldest riding - Minus 15 F on Feb. 18

Hottest Riding - 98 F on July 15

Best mileage - 189 on May 1

Least Mileage - 1 on Oct. 1 - no zero days

Got wet - 24 times that I recorded

Flat tires - 11

Fell once

1700 miles all recreational.
My longest was 100 miles (I rode around the block the last 5.5 miles to
get it up to 100!)
This was my first full year of real bicycling since I was a kid.

Ted.