total km in 2023

[Cormanus]

Look out Nachodaddy. He's trying to bamboozle us again.

[alprider]

Would you please tell us, why one would report his bikes and total mileage in such way ?
I mean, I am glad you had fun, but what am I missing here ?

As opposed to reporting bikes and mileage totals in a different way? Or maybe the question more focuses on the "why" part?

Forum communication and where it leads one is a curious thing. Member might be posting about mileage, but I might respond: "hey, I didn't know you had a Monkey...what's that bike like?" and then the thread takes twists and turns, and I end up buying a Monkey down the road when it was never on my radar. My wife questions my sanity and leaves me for a bike-less dude from Ann Arbor who promises he'd never dream of riding a motorcycle. I start life over as a result and determine that I'll do a round the world trip on the Monkey...

...all because some guy with a banana yellow CB1100 posted his mileage for different bikes.
Hey Alp, what do you think of that Monkey?

the most comfortable saddle I've ever had

with his short wheelbase and lightweight.....and his special own style....just a real funbike.....if you arnt (only) the powerbike mind (even with larger loops)
btw
Well, of course I'm not the tallest or heaviest and therefore have plenty of space on it

[GoldOxide_imp]

Would you please tell us, why one would report his bikes and total mileage in such way ?
I mean, I am glad you had fun, but what am I missing here ?

As opposed to reporting bikes and mileage totals in a different way? Or maybe the question more focuses on the "why" part?

Forum communication and where it leads one is a curious thing. Member might be posting about mileage, but I might respond: "hey, I didn't know you had a Monkey...what's that bike like?" and then the thread takes twists and turns, and I end up buying a Monkey down the road when it was never on my radar. My wife questions my sanity and leaves me for a bike-less dude from Ann Arbor who promises he'd never dream of riding a motorcycle. I start life over as a result and determine that I'll do a round the world trip on the Monkey...

...all because some guy with a banana yellow CB1100 posted his mileage for different bikes.
Hey Alp, what do you think of that Monkey?

the most comfortable saddle I've ever had

with his short wheelbase and lightweight.....and his special own style....just a real funbike.....if you arnt (only) the powerbike mind (even with larger loops)
btw
Well, of course I'm not the tallest or heaviest and therefore have plenty of space on it

the most comfortable saddle I've ever had

with his short wheelbase and lightweight.....and his special own style....just a real funbike.....if you arnt (only) the powerbike mind (even with larger loops)
btw
Well, of course I'm not the tallest or heaviest and therefore have plenty of space on it
I concur - at least from the perspective of statically sitting on it. It felt wonderful.

[The Gecko_imp]

Gecko, this forum has a mileage record (see [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Fr5v7DoenPZeQRLCSQgAoQqiP-BX5gimlgdsBZ9nhs/edit#gid=1103307594]here). Those members with multiple bikes who use it record their mileage in a similar way.

Had no idea it was such a big thing
I try to live by the motto "more life into one's years, not more years into one''s life".
With respect to the above mentioned mileage record, one might translate this into, "more fun into each mile", not "more miles" or more miles "than the others".
If the XXX rode 6 days a week each week, and the YYY rode only 4 days a week, what the heck is this supposed to mean ? And if YYY rode 6 days too, but did less miles ... ??

Addicted to a world with as many species alive as possible, all I can see is more miles = more gas burned (and this is why the Saudies call the shots, and we KTA). But I respect other people's opinions - no flamed responses please.

[Nachodaddy]

Look out Nachodaddy. He's trying to bamboozle us again.

Bananas! Monkeys! What kind of zoo is this?

[peterbaron]

Stop "teasing" Alp, otherwise we won't see the beautiful photos of his motorcycle fleet and the country/CH

[GoldOxide_imp]

Gecko, this forum has a mileage record (see [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Fr5v7DoenPZeQRLCSQgAoQqiP-BX5gimlgdsBZ9nhs/edit#gid=1103307594]here). Those members with multiple bikes who use it record their mileage in a similar way.

Had no idea it was such a big thing
I try to live by the motto "more life into one's years, not more years into one''s life".
With respect to the above mentioned mileage record, one might translate this into, "more fun into each mile", not "more miles" or more miles "than the others".
If the XXX rode 6 days a week each week, and the YYY rode only 4 days a week, what the heck is this supposed to mean ? And if YYY rode 6 days too, but did less miles ... ??

Addicted to a world with as many species alive as possible, all I can see is more miles = more gas burned (and this is why the Saudies call the shots, and we KTA). But I respect other people's opinions - no flamed responses please.

I may have burned through a tyrannosaurus's liver on my last ride.

[Whoops]

Gecko, this forum has a mileage record (see [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Fr5v7DoenPZeQRLCSQgAoQqiP-BX5gimlgdsBZ9nhs/edit#gid=1103307594]here). Those members with multiple bikes who use it record their mileage in a similar way.

Had no idea it was such a big thing
I try to live by the motto "more life into one's years, not more years into one''s life".
With respect to the above mentioned mileage record, one might translate this into, "more fun into each mile", not "more miles" or more miles "than the others".
If the XXX rode 6 days a week each week, and the YYY rode only 4 days a week, what the heck is this supposed to mean ? And if YYY rode 6 days too, but did less miles ... ??

Addicted to a world with as many species alive as possible, all I can see is more miles = more gas burned (and this is why the Saudies call the shots, and we KTA). But I respect other people's opinions - no flamed responses please.

Whew! That is a hot potato of a statement, but I'll bite, sans the politics though.

I too find the loss of any species a sad statement that reflects poorly on our civilization as a whole. However... Until corporations who are responsible for the lion's share of pollution stop deflecting their transgressions by guilt shaming Joe Commuter for burning gasoline in his ULEV (in what are now some of the lowest hydrocarbon emitting engines ever produced) to get to his job that feeds his family while they carelessly continue to dump "forever chemicals" into drinking water sources, or belch pollution by using bunker oil in cargo ships, or burn jet fuel at such high elevations that it takes years to come back to the ground, etc. I think it's a bit like stepping over dollars to pick up pennies and misses the low hanging fruit by a long shot.

But just like The Dude said, that's just like my opinion, man.

[the Ferret]

As far as impact on species, they come, go and come back. Hundreds of new species are discovered every year, hundreds of species disappear every year, and many species thought to be extinct are suddenly discovered NOT extinct every year. According to Science Museum of Virginia (google):
Scientists say that 86% of the species that live on land and 91% of those that live underwater have yet to be studied by science..... About 18,000 new species are discovered every year.

There is no existing, new or newly proposed viable solution to propel the 8 billion people that exist today that won't have a detrimental impact on this planet. Currently oil is the best/most viable solution for mass transit as far as I can tell.

A motorcycle to me seems a pretty benign method of travel compared to most cars, busses, planes and trains. Moving requires energy, and that energy has to come from somewhere, and honestly with some of the newer proposed sources of energy they don't tell you the "whole" story, or they don't know the "whole" story to tell you (to be discovered by our children and grandchildren.) Electricity doesn't produce itself, and wind and solar are not living up to their promises.

We can argue/discuss it here leaving politics out, but we are not going to solve the issue, that's for sure.

[The Gecko_imp]

Gecko, this forum has a mileage record (see [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Fr5v7DoenPZeQRLCSQgAoQqiP-BX5gimlgdsBZ9nhs/edit#gid=1103307594]here). Those members with multiple bikes who use it record their mileage in a similar way.

Had no idea it was such a big thing
I try to live by the motto "more life into one's years, not more years into one''s life".
With respect to the above mentioned mileage record, one might translate this into, "more fun into each mile", not "more miles" or more miles "than the others".
If the XXX rode 6 days a week each week, and the YYY rode only 4 days a week, what the heck is this supposed to mean ? And if YYY rode 6 days too, but did less miles ... ??

Addicted to a world with as many species alive as possible, all I can see is more miles = more gas burned (and this is why the Saudies call the shots, and we KTA). But I respect other people's opinions - no flamed responses please.

Whew! That is a hot potato of a statement, but I'll bite, sans the politics though.

I too find the loss of any species a sad statement that reflects poorly on our civilization as a whole. However... Until corporations who are responsible for the lion's share of pollution stop deflecting their transgressions by guilt shaming Joe Commuter for burning gasoline in his ULEV (in what are now some of the lowest hydrocarbon emitting engines ever produced) to get to his job that feeds his family while they carelessly continue to dump "forever chemicals" into drinking water sources, or belch pollution by using bunker oil in cargo ships, or burn jet fuel at such high elevations that it takes years to come back to the ground, etc. I think it's a bit like stepping over dollars to pick up pennies and misses the low hanging fruit by a long shot.

But just like The Dude said, that's just like my opinion, man.

Whew! That is a hot potato of a statement, but I'll bite, sans the politics though.

I too find the loss of any species a sad statement that reflects poorly on our civilization as a whole. However... Until corporations who are responsible for the lion's share of pollution stop deflecting their transgressions by guilt shaming Joe Commuter for burning gasoline in his ULEV (in what are now some of the lowest hydrocarbon emitting engines ever produced) to get to his job that feeds his family while they carelessly continue to dump "forever chemicals" into drinking water sources, or belch pollution by using bunker oil in cargo ships, or burn jet fuel at such high elevations that it takes years to come back to the ground, etc. I think it's a bit like stepping over dollars to pick up pennies and misses the low hanging fruit by a long shot.

But just like The Dude said, that's just like my opinion, man.
I’ll take the glove...
Everything you say is correct, but it should not be used as an excuse to do nothing, to not think, to not see.
Let the big guys do what we all can and should ask them to do. Let’s talk about it, discuss it, work on it. Fine. But a million little guys do their fair share of damage. And one needs to talk about this too. There is no good reason to shout hurrays when one’s mileage topped that from last year, or that of your neighbor.