The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on December 31, 2012, 02:08:26 PM
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Time for the yearend totals .
'02 R1150R 4159
'81 R65 1186
'82 R65LS 135
As usual, pretty pathetic for someone that can ride all year long !!!!!!
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The R45 was put to bed a little earlier this winter so I manged only 1958 miles riding on 202 days out of the 365.
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Riding safely takes precedence over # of miles!
No matter how many miles ridden each season, I'm always grateful to still be in one piece, given the risks that come with riding.
Congratulations, Bob!
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1958 miles riding on 202 days out of the 365.
You guys amaze me with your record keeping. I couldn't within 2K miles tell you what the odometer reading is on mine. ( it's 20-something)
Since I just got it back on the road again the times I have rode it this year, "wasn't very often" and since I didn't take any trips, "I didn't go very far".... That's about as exacting as I get.
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Ken makes a very valid point.
Tires don't grip so well when the temperature gets close to or below freezing and you do need to stay in one piece so you can ride the next year.
On reflection I've done some dumb rides in the winter.
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Not been the year for riding
KTM Super Enduro - 65 miles (devastating)
R65 - 1300 miles
Beta Evo - 2 trials
the weather here has been crap this year
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LRB managed only 2808 mi.
Winston the Bonneville only 1416 mi
Dr200 somewhere near 1000 mi as has doubled since bought it in July 2011 and pretty sure only added 800 mi the rest of the summer of 2011.
So other than Mo. national and Finger lakes rallies a pretty light travelling summer.
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A rather light year for me but I did manage a few decent ride. Mrs Phorqs and I had our annual Texas Wildflower Ride in April. The flowers were phenomenal this year. In May I made my Texas Fort's Tour but it was cut short when the clutch in the Guzzi went bad on me. Then the MOA rally in July. Knee replacement in late August put the finish to the serious riding for the year.
R1100S 2,274 miles
R90/6S 278 miles
Moto Guzzi California 1,352 miles
Bonneville, 105 miles (anyone want to buy a Bonneville with 922 original miles)
Hope to do better this coming year.
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Well I guess I had a lot of pent up riding frustration because I started riding the R65LS late 2011 with 39600 miles. It now has 48700 miles on the odometer including a repair of the speedometer so there should be about another 1000 miles more actual.
I've enjoyed almost every mile immensely.
I have to suggest to all that they install the Fiamm dual horn modification. Nothing replaces careful riding. But these horns have saved me several times and even saved my buddy when he overlooked a red light he was approaching. My horn blast just behind him woke him up to react instantly.
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Rocket II Touring-about 10,000
Sprint, CB750, and r65-maybe about 1000 each, I didn't keep track this year.
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R65: 6,636 miles (yeah Joe, some of us keep track!)
I didn't quite get in 1,900 miles on my bicycle, which does a much better job than the R65 of keeping me thin. About every 20 miles on the bicycle replaces about 100 miles on the R65.
Well under 5,000 miles in my gas hog 4WD Toyota pickup. But when it snows that's still what I take.
Edit: at first I was accidently showing the past two years of miles on the R65. I did not mean to pad it.
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R65:10,636 miles (yeah Joe, some of us keep track!)
I checked my mileage today when I rode down to coffee this afternoon. it was 23K and change. I will run out of miles before the R65 does.
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Ken makes a very valid point.
Tires don't grip so well when the temperature gets close to or below freezing and you do need to stay in one piece so you can ride the next year.
On reflection I've done some dumb rides in the winter.
I recall taking a trip from Los Angeles to Portland Oregon (1,000 miles) maybe fourteen years ago (was it really that long ago???) just before Christmas. I had to avoid the mountain passes by taking the coast highway. The storms that route had been especially bad the whole month previous and I managed to sneak through the one or two day window before the next one. It was a miserably cold ride, camping in freezing conditions, having to warm my hands after packing up in the morning... and then it was fairly nice. So I decided to ride one of my favorite roads into Portland from Tillamook. Filling up in Tillamook, I discovered my favorite road was closed due to snow and had to backtrack 40 miles to a lower and more southern pass. The next day I awoke to snow on the ground!
At that point I took a serious look what why I ride - and the conclusion was that I LOVE IT. But I wasn't fond of freezing my ass off and worrying about black ice. I realized I had nothing to prove - to myself or anyone else - so why do such crazy things? ;D
As for my mileage this year... my LS is the ride of choice when the weather is halfways decent - but I don't think I kept very good track. I'd guess 4,000 miles going into eastern Oregon and day trips, besides errands around town.
The 77RS saw a trip to the bay area - roughly a thousand miles round trip, besides foul weather trips around here. So it's probably seen two or three thousand miles. BTW, that trip to the bay area (for Darryl's Surf City Tech Day) was a pretty nasty one, raining and miserable most of the way there. And even though the weather was great for the return trip, it wasn't much fun nursing a bald rear tire 500 miles home. If any of you run into a situation of needing to made a bald tire last one more day - I've got the tech for you! :D
But it's no fun - one of the tricks is going slow. Imagine what it's like having the semis pass you up hills. ;D
For me, it's not the number of miles but the quality that's important.
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Wirespokes
Quality is very important, but not as much as winning!!!!!
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Obviously I'm not playing the high miles game, so it's equally obvious I won't win at it. But I do win at my own game of quality time in the saddle. ;)
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Well it finally stopped raining so I rode the bike to work today. Funny how strange the bike sounds and feels after a 6 week lay off. My confidence on wet bends was also lacking so I rode like an upright citizen all the way there.
Coming back though was different. With 10 Deg C and mostly dry roads I took the long way home and blatted it up the dual carriage way to try and warm the oil up so I could change it. God I'd forgotten how incredibly smooth the engine is cruising at 4500 RPM. By 5000 it has started to tingle a bit but at 4500 it's just perfection. No way I'm touching the carb balance during the coming service.
Drained the oil when I got home and in spite of having done this any number of times still managed to make a mess on the garage floor taking the filter cover off. Good job I put lots of newspaper down. Going to use a different oil but this isn't the place for an oil thread so I'll post something in Totally Off Topics section.
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...Drained the oil when I got home and in spite of having done this any number of times still managed to make a mess on the garage floor taking the filter cover off.
Take consolation by reading Peter Egan's column titled Zen and the Art of the Oil Change in the December 2012 issue of Cycle World. Hysterical, it is.
Much of the oil will follow the bottom of the muffler and run onto the floor. Expect some to drip off the filter wrench and onto your blue jeans. Accidentally drop the slippery, hot filter into the pan for a nice splash effect...
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Accidentally drop the slippery, hot filter into the pan for a nice splash effect...
Yes I did that too but kept it off my jeans ...at least I think I did :(
We've all been there a haven't we and yet we still think one day we're going to do the perfect oil change and not spill a drop.
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Well, my yearend total is easy to figure because it comes to ZERO miles on Greta who has been patiently going through my slow restoration process. However the miles that I expect to ride in 2013 should be double the pleasure once she is all sorted out and running. The big thing for me is to take the time to be certain that everything goes back together the right way, with a lot of help from forum members. Thanks everyone and Happy New Year. D2
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I put 2625 miles on my "new" 1984 R65 this year which is the most I have ridden in about 30 years. I put about 100 miles on my 1946 Triumph Speed Twin with the last 15 or 20 having a side car hooked to it. That is the least I have ridden the Triumph in many years.
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OK, David. You know the House Rules... You gotta post a photo of your Speed Twin hack or the rig does not exist.
Good work on the R65 miles. Sounds as if the Airhead suits you. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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Here is a link to a video I made of putting the sidecar on my Speed Twin and the first ride. I am going to need a lot more time riding with it to get comfortable and may or may not leave it on. For one thing a sidecar takes up a lot of floor space in the garage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cs97U86TKQ
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I only record oil changes etc so in the 12 months and 2 weeks ending mid december 2012 I did 8565km. I think that's 5353 miles.
I've ridden 1345km since then, 420 of them today across the state to a mining town pub for lunch and back.
It was a glorious day and great roads especially the Cradle Mountain link road, excellent wide road, non stop sweepers and very little traffic for roughly 80km across the high country to the wild west coast mining town of Waratah.