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Milage; Who's done the most to date?
Topic Started: Apr 28 2012, 10:01 PM (1,366 Views)
owdbiker
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Just been working out my total mileage since I came back to biking 18 years ago:122,152(approx)I did courier work for a couple of years so that racked up the figures.
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rowland
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Well......,

I don't do very many miles - very much a fair weather biker. At my last MOT the mechanic wondered if I'd used the bike at all. Well I had - all 70 odd miles of it. I will never be able to equal your total but I have to say I love every mile I ride. These days I wait for a sunny day, ride slowly to my favourite pub, have a pie and a pint, sit in the sun, look at my GPz500s and ENJOY.

I started riding on a BSA Bantam in 1959, so I am by definition an old fart - I have no need of a bike, my wife doesn't like it and my kids tell me to stop. Stuff 'em all, I'm a biker to my dying day.

Rowland
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Hey Rowland, as long as you've got that bike and ride it (no matter how little), you will always be young :444

I clock about 7000 miles a year though my last bike(ER6N) i clocked 15000 in 19 months. With the price of petrol at over £1.40 (robbing b******s) a litre i will now try to keep the mileage down to 5000.
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Rowland,I hope i'm like you when i get to that stage. :711
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julian482011
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:546 yes courier work rings a bell with me,,spent two years in the saddle myself until i was knocked off on tower bridge 6/3/95 with compound fracture and fractured collar bone,,luckily it was a company machine i was on board dare i say it bmw k75..seen the light now as owned my zzr 1100 since 2008. so my miles are around 98000...not bad but not quite up to you.
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chris gpz
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I'm like Rowland only ride mostly on dry days, Only done about 3000 miles on my CBR750 in the last 7 years, done about 500 miles on my CX500 since last August and my new pride and joy a GPZ1100 80 miles to fetch it home last Feb, but i like owning them and it P**s's the missus off! like i say to her she spends her money on hair and clothes i spend mine on bikes hehe. Should be taxing the GPZ this month if it stops raining.
My uncle RIP was riding his bike at 70 so you've still got a few years riding yet Rowland. :711
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Apr 29 2012, 06:11 PM
Hey Rowland, as long as you've got that bike and ride it (no matter how little), you will always be young :444

I clock about 7000 miles a year though my last bike(ER6N) i clocked 15000 in 19 months. With the price of petrol at over £1.40 (robbing b******s) a litre i will now try to keep the mileage down to 5000.
well. a cupple months back, i borrowed my dads 600 bandit witch had 12500 miles on it (there abouts) only used it for 2 odd months and tried very hard not to use it as didnt want to add meany more miles on to it. (didnt go out much at the weekends and missed a lot of events to tring to keep it in as good a condision as when i first got it) but still i more than dubbled the milage and this was in winter. my last bike was a gpx 600 witch i used every day, not sure on the milage as changed the clocks near the end however when i first got it it had something around 60-80 thousand miles on it and when i changed the clocks it had done around 150 thousand more in 4 years. i have only just got my new bike built with 60000 ish on the clock when i fitted it so ill take note of how meany more i do in the year ahead as a point of intrest. im only 26 so this makes me wonder how meany miles i have ridden in my life and by the time im 50 how far might i have gone. (if i live that long lol)
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steve w
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i average about 500 miles a year :256
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Riding 4 years... sooo... at a guess maybe only 3-8,000 ?

NC30 - weekend toy : P -- think maybe 1,000 last year - included a couple of track days,

just insured the er6n for 7k estimated this year (75mi to and from work a day when the weather's not total w**king it down) :P

-- hate rain. love bus lanes.
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rowland
Apr 29 2012, 05:08 PM
Well......,

I don't do very many miles - very much a fair weather biker. At my last MOT the mechanic wondered if I'd used the bike at all. Well I had - all 70 odd miles of it. I will never be able to equal your total but I have to say I love every mile I ride. These days I wait for a sunny day, ride slowly to my favourite pub, have a pie and a pint, sit in the sun, look at my GPz500s and ENJOY.

I started riding on a BSA Bantam in 1959, so I am by definition an old fart - I have no need of a bike, my wife doesn't like it and my kids tell me to stop. Stuff 'em all, I'm a biker to my dying day.

Rowland
I started my riding on an autocycle about the same time as you.Got on the road at 17 in 1964,for about a year then passed my car test and didn't sit on a bike until'96!Started couriering in '98 at the age of 51 having done only a few thousand country miles:that was a steep learning curve all right! nowadays I do about 3,000 miles a year-in the dry! I'll be 65 this June and intend to keep riding until I can't get my leg over :lafy (The saddle-behave!)
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owdbiker
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Good posts on this subject-keep 'em coming please.
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I don't know my total, but I think I might hold the record (or be a contender at least) for the most miles in one riding season... right around 19,000. That was back in 1984 when I bought my new CSR and it was my only transportation from March until September. Since then I've never ridden more than a few thousand per year, and none for the past 12 years. My "new" 1982 KZ750 will be on the road next week so I'll finally be riding again, at age 63.
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Don't want to put a dampner on things, but my bike ('99 1500 VN Nomad) has covered more miles than you. 130K and counting. I have put about 35K of that on the bike. 2 engine rebuilds, only one needed tho'. and still going strong. I've been riding 40 years so lost count of my personal mileage. 8-10 k a year on average. :228
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I passed my test in 1976 after a year on a 125 CZ and a Puch moped before that for a year. I have ridden nearly every day since then and still do, all year round. In the early years I lived close to work and had a young family so only did around 5 - 8000 miles a year. In later years I moved further from work and the kids grew up so my mileage went up to 10-12000 miles a year which it remains. This is split between commuting and pleasure rides and tours. Up to now I've had my current ER5 3 years and put 35000 miles on it. So a lifetime total of 250000 plus I reckon. I have no intention of quitting til I fall off my perch.
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my 1986 zx1000r has 50,000 miles on it and still works great.Compression levels are good across the board.To be honest,, there is nothing wrong with the bike at all.Fires up each and every time,,never left me stranded and it pretty comffy,not to mention fast!!
I put on roughly 5000 a year.Ive had the bike 6 years so all the miles are not mine.Not bad for 26 year old bike.I love it,,and likely cant replace it. :711
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May 3 2012, 06:25 AM
i average about 500 miles a year :256
500? are you sure? ive done that on a saturday!! :423
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big dave
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my last bike was a 2002 zx9r e1 I had it from new and put 78000 on it in 9 years the poor thing was not well when I sold it
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I average about 1000 miles a year with 2 bikes both on club plates had bikes on and off since 1973. its great to just jump on and ride with the wind in your face and with no where to go or be.
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well I hope and pray I make it as far as you lot, only been riding 3 years as im only 19, but I reckon ill be coming up to around 30k myself, still loving and learning every mile, and hope to have many, many more :) safe riding folks
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Another oldie 70 +started in 1957 on a Tiger Cub . Am still pottering about on a Z250 twin about 3000 mls a year .I try to go out once a week all year round even if its only round the block .
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eh up :)...... only been back on a bike for the last 7 years after a 12 year break, but in that time ive done around... ( counts fingers and toes...) 38K, as for before, couldt say as i didnt care lol. But yeah im with Rowland cos you can prise the bike from my cold dead hands :D
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Clocking up about 7000-8000 miles both commute and leisure! All weather rider on a '91 Zephyr 750- I'm glad to say I haven't loss the love of the ride even though I use it everyday as a commute and then for leisure when I can, in fact after a nightshift theres nothing like the ride home in these cool crisp mornings.

Although 7000 miles might not sound much, I do live on the Isle of Wight! If you know the island you'll appreciate how many times around that is!!!
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Mar 15 2014, 08:54 PM
Clocking up about 7000-8000 miles both commute and leisure! All weather rider on a '91 Zephyr 750- I'm glad to say I haven't loss the love of the ride even though I use it everyday as a commute and then for leisure when I can, in fact after a nightshift theres nothing like the ride home in these cool crisp mornings.

Although 7000 miles might not sound much, I do live on the Isle of Wight! If you know the island you'll appreciate how many times around that is!!!
B****y hell! thats like....lots an lots! ( sorry ran out of fingers, toe's, arms an legs working that out!!!) :693
Edited by St.J, Mar 15 2014, 10:14 PM.
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It would be fun to know who's done the highest mileage in a single day.I'll kick off with 773 from 5am until 10pm(Mostly in the wet!)
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got me beat......445...... nuneaton - warminster - durham bit backwards to go forwards but thats family for ya.
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I do an insane amount of mileage, mostly because I don't have a car so a bike is my main transport.

I first passed a CBT in 2009, had 18 months off after I was made redundant between 2010 & 2012, I've then been riding since then.

In those 3 1/2 years I've racked up something in the region of 45,000 miles & counting, the vast majority has been commuting in any & all weathers.

To start with & when I got back on after my hiatus, I was on my beloved (Please don't hurt me...) Honda XL125 Varadero. The poor little thing suffered rain, snow, ice, freezing fog, everything.

My current job means I rack up 15,000/year (58 miles each day + social riding).

I had to get rid of my Varadero after I realised it was struggling to remain reliable at that rate, although it was my first bike & a heroic little thing so I was mourning for a time. I plan to get a winter bike as I'm not stupid enough to ride my GPZ1100 in the cold, freezing depths of winter. Plus I would like it to last as it was a purchase with the heart.
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