How Much Do You Ride?

[aka_locojoe]

I don't always keep track of my miles but for the second year I joined the National Bike Challenge so I've been keeping track since April. Just checked and it says I've ridden 1,195 miles since April. I don't have any kind of routine. I ride a variety of bikes but I'm guessing most miles are put on this one with a 2spd kickback.

 

[XC204]

Right around 75 a week for me I commute and the route is about 1/2 bike path along the fox river the rest in small town streets some days I don't even have to put my feet down. View just getting to work.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Nice early morning view of all of the lovely chem trails.

 

[Dadx2mj]

Sorry for bumping an old thread but I am feeling some what accomplished because this morning's ride brought my yearly mileage total to just over 2000 miles, not bad for a beat up over weight old guy

 

[Skipton]

I ride every day to and from work. 70-80 miles a week.
Plus I've been riding a lot on my weekends.

 

[Dale Alan]

Can not ride much anymore,maybe 25 miles a week. I make up for lack of saddle time by wrenching more,I enjoy both equally.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

^^^not much? That's 1,300 miles a year.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[user 16077]

I ride around 60-80 miles a week, I should be doing more because I'm young.

Monday through friday I ride 6 miles round trip to the beach with a surfboard, then after, another 6 mile round trip to college.

On weekends I ride a lot less, due to riding different bikes. I avoid riding conversation starters when I actually need to get to school or a good swell.

 

[Bob Gray]

I average 60-70 miles a week. I usually do 8 miles a day with my dog, get one or two longer rides by myself on weekends and a couple of short errand trips to the store.

 

[Nagant]

My riding is very sporadic due to health problems. Wish I could ride more often.

 

[JINKS HILL]

I ride about 100 miles per week in all conditions. I don't really own a car, so bicycle is my primary means of conveyance.

 

[ozzmonaut]

I've been building these things. Now I have to ride 'em too!? The factory I was employed at just shut down. Before that I was averaging 25-30 miles a week. Now it's at least 10 miles a day until I find a job. I'm hoping to find a job in town so I can ride to work instead of driving.

 

[randallace]

I mainly ride on weekends - too far of a commute to ride to work - 30 miles one way - and I'm old , LOL

 

[5speed]

has quality over quantity beed over looked in our supposedly mellow bike world,i have emphasema so my riding doesnt entail 45 miles a day,but when i do ride i try to enjoy the ride,i guess if i wanted to be like lance armsrong i would frequent a road bike site,i was under the impression that this site and a similar one were about building and cruisuing bikes,i would like to think the main obfective here is on creativity,it would be nice if ppl would think about the others on here who can no londer ride 50 miles aday,imho to much is on how far you canride vs what are you building

 

[LukeTheJoker]

I am lucky if I rode 45 miles total in the last 2 years since I joined...

My health is my restriction too, but I have no problem with reading about how many miles others do, in fact I like to see how the amount of miles people do effects the type of builds they make...

Luke.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

I'm a former 3,500+ miles per year rider. But since getting married two years ago, I'm lucky if I can do 1,500. In my racing days, the late 80s, early 90s, I rode 5,000 per year.

I'm amazed at the miles some of you guys put on cruisers. Brag worthy indeed.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[5speed]

nice to hear fromothers who arnt able to ride as much as we would prolly like

 

[aka_locojoe]

from April 1st through September 30th this year. mostly short rides and trips to the store.

 

[patman73]

i ride my a bike for miles at a time just don't know how many miles it is , i just like to ride my bike , no mater how far it is , if i need to get there
most of my riding are short rides around town !

 

[aka_locojoe]

How do you track this? I don't have a cell phone as they don't work in many of the areas I hunt or drive in so they would do me no good for some of the potential emergencies I could find myself in. Is there a GPS way to track your biking distance?

Those are my stats from the National Bike Challenge. I don't always track my miles but for the last 2 years I've participated in this challenge from April to September so I have during that period.
Anyway, only one of my bikes has an odometer and it's one I ride the least. So most of the miles I figured out by retracing my route once I got home on Goggle map Maker. It's a pain to do. Once I've got the miles figured out I put it into the National Bike Challenge website and it comes up with those other stats.
I could and have used my phone for tracking miles but I don't like to run the battery down should I need to use the phone. Garmin makes a GPS unit for bikes that I've thought about getting.