Yearend Mile/Kilometer Totals

[Bob_Roller]

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 !!!!!!

[Barry]

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.

[Red_Hen]

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!

[wilcom]

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.

[Barry]

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.

[MR.E]

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

[suecanada]

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.

[Bengt_Phorqs]

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.

[EGRG]

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.

[trips]

Rocket II Touring-about 10,000

Sprint, CB750, and r65-maybe about 1000 each, I didn't keep track this year.

[Ed Miller]

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.

[wilcom]

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.

[tvrla]

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?  

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!  

But it's no fun - one of the tricks is going slow. Imagine what it's like having the semis pass you up hills.  

For me, it's not the number of miles but the quality that's important.

[MR.E]

Wirespokes

Quality is very important, but not as much as winning!!!!!

[tvrla]

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.