01-12-2016, 01:13 AM
Django's thread on mileage got me thinking about my own riding this past year, so I pulled out my logs and looked at the numbers. You may find it interesting, you may not. Since I read Touratechs opinion that one could ride 308 days out of 365 in the area of the country I live in (if you are willing to put up with some inconveniences... like weather), I have been trying to do that. So far haven't been able to get it done, but I will keep trying. So, here are my personal numbers for 2015:
Total miles (all bikes) … 22,033
(ST 12,184 mi … CB 9,574 mi … YPV 400 275 mi)
Total days ridden …. 274/365
Ave miles ridden per day ….. 80
Most miles single day ….. 465 miles on May 26 on the CB (yep on stock seat)
Least miles ridden in a single day …. 9 miles on Aug 14th on the CB (I try to not ride less than 30 miles once I fire up a bike, but had a colonoscopy and was put under that morning lol…wasn’t supposed to ride for 24 hours..oops)
Most miles ridden in one week …. 1,831 miles May 25-31 on the CB (yep, on stock seat)
Rode in all 12 months (9th year in a row since I’ve been keeping records)
Most miles ridden in a month … 3,501 miles in May
Least miles ridden in a month … 952 miles in February (only month with under 1000 miles)
0 months where I rode every day
3 months missed 1 day of riding … May, June and Dec
1 month missed 17 days of riding … February
In July and August I was laid up for 21 days with a back issue (Man, glad that's over with, at least for now)
For some reason I rode 7,019 miles less this year than I did in 2014. Also in 2014 there were several months I didn't miss a day. Wonder if I'm starting to slow down? Hope not. I think if my back hadn't gone out in July/Aug, two prime riding months the numbers would have been similar. Then again in 2014 I only rode 2 days in January for 127 miles (23/31 for 1317 miles in 2015) and so far this year I've ridden 8/12 for 606 miles, so off to a good start for 2016.
Like I said you may not find all this particularly interesting. At any rate for me it's fun to keep track of all this and to try and do better/ride more every day, every month, every year. Only have so much time left... would prefer to spend it riding.
Total miles (all bikes) … 22,033
(ST 12,184 mi … CB 9,574 mi … YPV 400 275 mi)
Total days ridden …. 274/365
Ave miles ridden per day ….. 80
Most miles single day ….. 465 miles on May 26 on the CB (yep on stock seat)
Least miles ridden in a single day …. 9 miles on Aug 14th on the CB (I try to not ride less than 30 miles once I fire up a bike, but had a colonoscopy and was put under that morning lol…wasn’t supposed to ride for 24 hours..oops)
Most miles ridden in one week …. 1,831 miles May 25-31 on the CB (yep, on stock seat)
Rode in all 12 months (9th year in a row since I’ve been keeping records)
Most miles ridden in a month … 3,501 miles in May
Least miles ridden in a month … 952 miles in February (only month with under 1000 miles)
0 months where I rode every day
3 months missed 1 day of riding … May, June and Dec
1 month missed 17 days of riding … February
In July and August I was laid up for 21 days with a back issue (Man, glad that's over with, at least for now)
For some reason I rode 7,019 miles less this year than I did in 2014. Also in 2014 there were several months I didn't miss a day. Wonder if I'm starting to slow down? Hope not. I think if my back hadn't gone out in July/Aug, two prime riding months the numbers would have been similar. Then again in 2014 I only rode 2 days in January for 127 miles (23/31 for 1317 miles in 2015) and so far this year I've ridden 8/12 for 606 miles, so off to a good start for 2016.
Like I said you may not find all this particularly interesting. At any rate for me it's fun to keep track of all this and to try and do better/ride more every day, every month, every year. Only have so much time left... would prefer to spend it riding.