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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: Andre Jute on January 05, 2013, 12:33:06 pm
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How far did you ride last year?
It was a miserable summer here in Ireland, and for almost all of it I was recovering from a near-death experience in heart surgery, so I rode only 1068km, not much to brag about. (And, without the electrical motor I would have ridden none of it, not because I run the motor all the time but because I live up a very steep hill, and wouldn't get the bike home again without the motor, unless I push, which I absolutely refuse to do.)
Andre Jute
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well at a guess probably around 2500 miles my normal milage is 5500 to 6000 but yeah this year was the pits never seen such bad weather thats my excuse anyway.
so this year well put it this way it cant be any worse. ::)
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2646 miles for me in 2012
I keep a log and summarize every month.
Awful weather, some trips away and a few injuries kept the mileage low
Matt
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This is a fun exercise, I too keep a daily total and summarise monthly but hadn't totalled up for the year. I managed 8215 miles on my Raven Tour last year, (my 3rd year of ownership) bringing my total up too 22400 miles. During the year I replaced both wheels at different times, replaced both tyres, both brake cables, had 2 new chains, adjusted them 6 times and changed the oil 3 times. The biggest surprise though in collating the daily data was that there were 57 days when I didn't get a ride in, (and I'd thought I'd ridden almost every day).
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8215 miles
Yeow, very nice indeed! That's about 27 miles on average for the days you were out.
My goal for this year is to get out more consistently but I don't see getting my miles per day up very much. I do want to push myself a bit toward longer rides, but those are going to be exceptional. Maybe I can do 30 mile rides once a week, but not really much more than that.
I figure if I just keep getting gradually stronger, maybe I will yet find a way to make one of these fabulous adventures happen!
Got to get back to my Tibetan language tapes!
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great cycling peddles well done ,was a lot of that milage touring or century rides even maybe audex rides.
point i'm trying to make is if your a competitive rider you need to do big milage to compete in any event .
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I watched the movie Bicycle Dreams a couple days ago, about the Ride Across America. One rider was saying that he had been riding maybe 15K miles a year but found he could back off to more like 10K. So yeah peddles at 8200 is at an awesome level.
I rode on 155 days last year for a total of 3173 miles... so about 20 miles average on the days I got out. I use http://www.MapMyRide.com/ (http://www.MapMyRide.com/) to keep track. Not perfect but it works.
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10,558 miles. I will try to do better this year. ;) ;)
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10,558 miles.
Boggles my mind! Definitely inspiring, though!
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And he ain't joking he's (bikepacker)is as strong as an ox on a bike believe me i know. ;D ;D
but have to say an excellent cyclist.
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Some serious cyclists here, getting serious value out of their bikes!
Hey, Jim: I find 3173 miles as inspirational as you find the bigger totals. It depends on where you're looking out from. Around 5000km would make me delirious with joy.
But my realistic aim isn't actually a big mileage. It doesn't matter if it is a small mileage, as long as it is every day. My default, easy ride is 16km/10m and some of my harder rides, which probably do me more good, are just about the same but with longer, steeper hills.
Though we've had a couple of miserable years, just before that we had a long run of good years, cycling well into December, back on the bike at least intermittently in January or February. Maybe we got spoiled.
Andre Jute
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If you made a special ride in 2012, tell us about that as well.
Accompanied by my GP, I cycled up the steepest hill in West Cork. It went on forever, from the bottom of very deep valley to the top of substantial hill, and at the top it took me ten minutes to recover my breath, but the views were spectacular. For years I've been cycling on the road that runs along the ridge on the far side of the valley, wondering what was down in the valley, but not fancying the climb out of it again, which looked tough even on the topo map, and this time I went to look. A memorable ride.
Andre Jute
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6000 km on the Thorn RST and an estimated 500 km on my town bike which in old money is 4000 miles.
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Well andre one special ride i can remember there were loads,
i decided i would go see a stage of the ras in a wee village called tallenstown which is about 20 miles from my town going the scenic route ::)
the day was serious hot fantastic summers day the perfect day to be on a bike,well as i entered the village maybe about 15 minutes ahead of the race the whole village was out to greet the riders, but yours truly came flying down the hill to the waiting crown who started clapping and cheering waving flags shouting encouragement at this lone rider on a thorn sherpa with hugh saddlebag en toe.
of course i held my too arms up as i passed through which got a great laugh from everyone ;D ;D
only on a bike what ;)
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Thanks for the comment jags. If you where to come over here and spend a few weeks with me cycling every day, you would be a lot stronger with more good stories to tell.
By the way in case I gave the wrong impression. I don’t cycle just to build up miles I cycle every day because I love to be out on my bike. The old adage, ‘I ride my bike because I like to ride my bike’, applies to me.
One of my mother stories about my younger days was that I did my first 9 mile solo bike tour at the age of four and at the age of seven did 36 miles a day for two consecutive days. So I suppose the cycling gene was always in my blood.
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Accompanied by my GP, I cycled up the steepest hill in West Cork. It went on forever, from the bottom of very deep valley to the top of substantial hill, and at the top it took me ten minutes to recover my breath, but the views were spectacular.
Where are the hills in Ireland? I never found any. ;) ;) (Only kidding to wind up jags ;D)
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Where are the hills in Ireland? I never found any. ;) ;) (Only kidding to wind up jags ;D)
hah i don't believe you did ;D ;D
did my first spin of the year today 17miles. ;)
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Where are the hills in Ireland? I never found any.
There's only the one steep hill. But it covers the entire country...
Andre Jute
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hah i think you could be right there andre certainly often felt like it. ::)
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3215 miles for me including several soakings and riding through the odd flood. All very enjoyable and the major reward of retirement.
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9477 km (5888 miles) for me in 2012.
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About 2500 UK mile or 4020 KM.
On XTC, Fixie and the Beast beater bike.
Mostly commuting, bar a few short rides and a 116 km day tour.
I cycle 330 days out of the 365 in a year, going to shops, drop wee man, go to work...lack of free time is the big obstacle to doing long weekend rides :S
Not having a car (and once I have one in a few months bad traffic jams/high petrol costs) are quite good to keep one going in all weather. T'was miserable in Northern Ireland also...
Will have bike trailer this year, so who knows maybe go for a long rides with wee man in back that'll harden me ;D
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5267 miles through Jan 5 of this year, when I ended the 2012 season. My bike touring year begins in June/July when I take off for a tour in the mountains and ends sometime in January/February when I return from my desert tour.
Probably 40 miles per day of touring, or about 5 hours in the saddle at 8 mph (I'm mostly on dirt roads, hence low speeds), though I'm starting to get bored beyond 3 hours/day and so distance traveled with surely be less in the future. Probably 3000 miles/year henceforth. Mental tiredness stops me long before physical tiredness.
I think it's silly to brag about miles travelled. The correct metric should be % days or hours happy versus unhappy and the goal should be 100% happy. Bicycle touring is merely a means to that end.
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ah yes but every ride isn't always a happy ride ::)
today was one of those unhappy days the weather was miserable ,
my ear phones kept falling out and i had to take off and put on my new tight fitting waterproof gloves which was a right pain, then the rain came down so my cycling glassed started to fog up couldn't see where the hell i was going,
yeah i was having a ball ;D
still got 20 miles done average speed only 12.5 but who's counting and whats worse i have to go and do it all again tomorrow ;D ;D
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Good on you, jags; it ain't easy in adverse conditions. I'm proud of you for getting out in such stuff.
All the best,
Dan.
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has to be done Dan either that or sit in watching tv :'(
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Every day on the bike is a good day ;D
It's hard to get motivate though when bucketing down...commuting or training for something resolves that :)
Memorable ride the 116 KM around Lough Erne, first proper tour on the XTC and with the manfriend.
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i done that tour jawine stayed at castle archdale £15 for the most miserable pitch you ever seen but it was late we coved a lot of miles that day . nice enough tour though except for the flags ;)
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Is that the same Loch I cycled past before Castlederg? I went past a large loch on the way to a campsite at Kesh but was told is was £26 a night so I cycled on. Guy in butchers shop at village said there was a cheaper campsite at Castlederg but I never found it. Thanks to a cyclist I met I was guided to a farm where I camped on a lovely lawn for free.
Going to London tomorrow for a few days I shall have cycling withdrawal symptons by the middle of the week.
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no i don't think so alan i think you would have had to go through donegal to get to it. but i could be wrong usually am. ;D
enjoy london although how i don't know ::)