I was looking for an old pic the other day & found these two are exactly a year apart, how much do you lot ride a year?
I was only doing about 1-1.5k kms per year , but since this covid shit started I've been doing about 100 kms per day 3-4 times per week, so over 3k covid kms to date
Not enough! Been out for a short run once this year - Work, Covid restrictions & being on a general downer haven't helped but hopefully getting out of a black hole at long last now so hoping that saddle time will follow :cheers:
25000-30000km per year.
10 000 - 15 000 km / season (~6 months)
I was using mine to commute to work as well and doing 7-10,000 miles per year.
May do 1k this year :bugga:
Any good weather day and I am out on her but shit weather stops me as works a hr away and I can't be doing with getting piss wet and working all day at Hmp lol get that from the cons when they play up lol
Not as much as I would like. When we can socially mingle again opportunities should arise for more miles and brekky at the super sausage cafe :drool: :drool: :smitten: :boogie: :smiley-happy036: :riding:
71 yrs old now, but that's no excuse.
I do about 4000 a year , once a week usually.
But as I tell mates, who have all given it away,I still feel the same as I hit the button for an early morning ride.
It could easily be 1972 and I'm kick starting the Mach 4 !!!!!! haha Just not the rattles and clangs and the smoke !!!!!
Today , 60 miles north of Wgton NZ its .8 of a degree ,
well it was at 6am..... so fuck it, bacon n eggs instead hahahha.
20,000 miles in a year ? (over 32,000 kms).
Wow that's quite an effort. I commute daily and ride most weekends and don't get anywhere near that !
2000-2500 each year
We do about 7000-10000 miles each a year on each gsx1400 Emma does nearer the lower end I do the higher end of this range .
:cheers:
This year has been different I've done so far 350 miles for me and 60 for Emma.
Quote from: seth on Friday, 03 July 2020, 04:08 PM
This year has been different I've done so far 350 miles for me and 60 for Emma.
I've been slacking this year too, only about 7k so far.
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 03 July 2020, 11:38 AM
20,000 miles in a year ? (over 32,000 kms).
Wow that's quite an effort. I commute daily and ride most weekends and don't get anywhere near that !
I don't have a car so the Bike does everything including the daily commute, rain, hail or shine.
That's why I wore out the first K1600 and am onto my second after clocking 200000km in under 8 years.
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 03 July 2020, 11:38 AM
20,000 miles in a year ? (over 32,000 kms).
Wow that's quite an effort. I commute daily and ride most weekends and don't get anywhere near that !
I don't feel like I use it a huge amount, but then I did do 4k around Portugal & Spain in january & that's not unusual for a 2 week trip.
@Hooli How much do you use yours?
on: Wednesday, 01 July 2020, 08:35 pm
Tbh not a lot!
Filled her up today, think the last lot must of evaporated!
(https://i.imgur.com/3Hn5sF3l.jpg)
Embarrassed from Staines :embarassed: (I'm referring to my location, not........ )
Not nearly enough.
Just about run in, 18yo this December
I do about 3-4K miles a year, on each bike.
Approx 1000 miles a year sometimes less. :facepalm:
I've only averaged 7/800miles a year (except for this year when I've done less than 1000 so far)
I was averaging approx 8k miles a year before I sold mine :bugga:
My Bandit which I'm keeping only did 4 miles last year..To and from MOT. Must try harder :imrgreen:
Will crack 6,000 covid kms this week, all through a shitty Melbourne winter, which is more than I had done on the bike in the previous 5 or so years and more than I have done on any bike in the last 10 years,looking forward to some warmer weather to ride in which hopefully won't be too far away. With the restrictions and business downturns here I can see myself continuing using the bike most days for at least another six Months instead of couriers, possibly more . As an aside, I have been racking my brain to think of a more suitable bike for the job and have come up with zero options, might have to keep my eye out for another14 if this one wears out
Quote from: steve porter on Monday, 31 August 2020, 07:36 AMmight have to keep my eye out for another14 if this one wears out
No point looking, they don't wear out.
Mine isn`t a commuter ride. Sadly, i`ll only get time for around 3000miles per year for the foreseeable future - quite a turn around from years gone by when i`d be clocking 20,000 + miles per year! I simply don`t get the time i`d like on the `14 :cry2:
Quote from: Hooli on Monday, 31 August 2020, 06:26 PM
Quote from: steve porter on Monday, 31 August 2020, 07:36 AMmight have to keep my eye out for another14 if this one wears out
No point looking, they don't wear out.
Like Trigger and his broom.
If I get 2000 miles on Bertha in a year we're doing well.
Its almost all commuting if the weathers right, as getting cold and wet either side of a long day in the lorry doesn't appeal.
Between work and home, theres a shortage of hours in the day!
I worked out I average only 8,000 kms per year.
(She's got about 130,000kms on her)
Up'd my mileage a bit yesterday manage 120 miles around Tayside and fife.
:cruisin:
Had mine out for a jaunt on the weekend, I saw it only has 38,000k (23,600 miles) on it. The black has more, but not much. I can see a few long trips are in order, just getting the time during warm boating weather. Still, it's there whenever I feel the need for an escape.
This made me think a bit - I was not at all sure so I decided to take a look.
Ignoring 2020 as it is a bit of a strange year I looked at the MOT certificate milage of my bikes in December 2018 and December 2019, the results surprised me!
Z1300 - 199 miles (now at 36,875)
GSX1400 - 605 miles (now at 37,162)
Z1000 - 563 miles (now at 10,409)
GTR1400 - 3,935 miles (now at 10,409). This did not get its first MOT until 2019, so I have had to take a three year average.
That's a total of 5,302 miles accross the four bikes but one seems to have got all of the "love".
I really thought I was using them more :embarrassed:
That one is obviously the favourite ride Pete & who can blame you. Great machine.
Quote from: KiwiCol on Friday, 11 September 2020, 04:29 AM
That one is obviously the favourite ride Pete & who can blame you. Great machine.
It really is the beast for touring on but I still love to go out on the others, especially the GSX and I'm in no hurry to part with it (or any of the others, even though those milages make it hard to argue for keeping them).
Although I have pointed out the obvious that 2020 is a strange year I think my use of the bikes may have increased - having been on "furlough" for a few months and then made redundant I am now either unemployed or retired (I have not decided yet!) and I am cerainly out on the bikes more regularly even if not necessarily for big runs.
I did manage to get four nights in Scotland on the GTR in July though, I think that is going to have to count as my Grand Tour for 2020. I'll post up a few words about it over the next couple of weeks, but here are the pictures for those that prefer images to words :smile2:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rynglieder/albums/72157715179760193 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rynglieder/albums/72157715179760193)
Here's hoping 2021 will be better
I have 5 registered bikes, the GSX gets more miles than anything else. I'm addicted to the torque.
Most fun bike is my hot ZX7R. Super fast, but only in short bursts, my body can't handle it. Rode it from Brisbane to Sydney return in a long weekend ...... Oh the pain. :bugga:
Yet rode the GSX Brisbane to Gippsland and return, about 4,000klms in four days, so much better.