Just totalled up my km rode last year:
8641km.
I keep a note in my calender after a similar thread last year. I thought it might have been more but in Nov I cycled 200km (ish) and only 60km in December.
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How far did I ride in 2012
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I didn't really keep tab for 2012, probably significantly down on 2011. 2013 I aim to rectify.
Saw a "challenge" cycle advertised at work to day for 31 miles. I don't think I was their target audience.
It's odd how after a few years of saddlework, distances cease to sound long until they are at least 50 miles. I can appreciate that 31 miles sounds long if you aren't into cycling - however it was an event paired with a 41 miels walk which is far more challenging. I think they got their ratio of walk:cycle a bit wrong.
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Dave, that's good going! I don't use a bike computer but my own estimate is about 4800km for 2012.
I wonder if we added up all the CCE'ers, we could work out the Kg of CO2 etc saved...Posted 12 years ago # -
I did something more than 3400 miles in 2012. That is what is recorded on my cycle computers ~500miles on road bike, and ~2900 on my commuter.
Thing is the cycle computer on the commuter hasn't worked properly since Sept, and seems to record less than half the miles I've actually done. Don't know how many times I've adjusted it to no avail. Over the holidays I thought, right, going to fix this so after 0'ing the odo's on both computers, swapped the head unit, magnet, and sensor over from the working road bike.
Still doesn't work, don't know why! Maybe I should just bite the bullit and get a GPS unit?
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Ah you can sport the Audaxers by their use of the km to make their rides appear EVEN longer and faster than they actually are ;-)
Commuting alone is 4,160km (2,600 miles in proper units) for me, I've no idea what I did in leisure cycling or shopping trips.
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@Baldcyclist what sort of unit is it? The Cateye ones can malfunction if the contacts for the unit and the bar mount get damp, they can get a bit of corrousion on them. A good clean-up to give good contact surface normally solves this. Plagued my Cateye Strada for ages until a fellow rider pointed out this shortcoming.
The Enduro is nigh-on indestructible.
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I started measuring in hours in 2005 following the advice of a Mr J Friel. My weekly hours never fell below five and were sometimes double that (at least). So if the average was an hour a day at a conservative 15mph then I rode 5,475 miles. Except a lot of that was on the turbo and it sounds high compared to before 2005 when I only exceeded 5,000 miles in a year once.
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+1 for the Enduro - mines about 12 years old, and still works fine.
I did about 6k km last year, which is down more than a tad on my usual mileage.
Must try harder
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Somewhere around 3,461m which converts to 5,569.93958 audax units. Approximately.
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I don't actually know, because neither of the bikes I use most frequently (folder and tandem) have computers. I know exactly how many kms I've done on audax rides, as it's up on the AUK web site for all to see. I'm a bit hazy about the leisure and utility riding over the year, partly because I reset my computer from miles to km in June, to better keep track on audaxes...
Even given all those caveats, I estimate my overall distance to be lower than the figures quoted above. That's mostly down to the commute being nearly all train, with just a wee bit of cycling either end.
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Despite a difficult last 3 months (when I averaged 270 miles/month), I made my target for the year - 6004 miles. I am now trying to shift from quantity to quality.
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3,820.967 miles, including extras from nonloggedmiles.xls for journeys made on bicycles without computers, which doesn't contain much beyond January (and therefore excludes some journeys on Sparebike which wasn't equipped with its own computer until April-ish).
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In any case, whatever distances you ride, non-cyclists will still be flabbergasted. Reaction to myself and No.1 son tuning up to kids' party in Loanhead yesterday on the tandem: (Wide eyed stare of incredulity) "Did you cycle all the way here?" (7 miles) "Um, yeah." (Hence the tandem?)
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"I wonder if we added up all the CCE'ers, we could work out the Kg of CO2 etc saved... "
Unfortunately a good proportion of my miles are for the sake of it. The shortest commute possible is 11 miles round trip but I often extend this and of course at the weekend my trips usually are from A to A, with a big diversion.
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Both computers are Cateye Micro Wireless so don't have contacts to get corroded. I reckon the issue is positioning of the sensor. On the road bike the fork is close to the wheel, so sensor points straight forward on the bracket so to speak, and has a nice 5mm gap. Never have an issue on road bike.
On the commuter the fork is quite a distance from the wheel, so the sensor is sitting at a right angle on the bracket to get close enough to the spokes. Although that doesn't explain why it worked fine for 6 months in the same position?
The other outlandish thought that I had was that my Cateye light was interfering with it (read somewhere that they can interfere with wireless computers), might explain why it only showed up as a problem in Sept, but not why both light and computer worked in harmony on road bike. Nah, must be sensor positioning?
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May-Dec 2012 was apparently 4177km, 165hrs and 30.6km climbed. The vast chunk of that is commuting miles, so the aim for 2013 is to do more riding for fun, rather than just getting to work.
Plus LEL will hopefully give a pleasant boost to the annual total.
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@Baldcyclist - could be the pulsing light unit. Amir had a light he made a tinfoil hat for to try and overcome sensor interference.
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1802 miles for me although I only started using a bike computer (Garmin 200) in July so I guess it could be doubled.
I only live 5 miles away from work but have resolved to take a longer 10 mile route in the mornings so will hopefully increase this year.
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Ooh, excitingly 4177km means that I saved just over a tonne of CO2 (based on the 940 estate I used to drive).
Or, apparently, the same amount of CO2 emitted by a lactating cow over 92 days, once corrected for manure decompostion.
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@Baldcyclist/Kappers If my lights are on blink mode they won't interfere with the wireless computer, but on solid they'll wash the signal out 9 times out of 10. Still haven't studied the 1 time in 10 for the variable that lets it work.
Anyway I do 45 commuting miles a week, so ~2100. On top of that in 2012 I did a 30, a 41, a 37, a 120(don't do a jump that big, folks), another 40, a 35, a 77, an 80 and a 52 that I can remember. That bumps it up to ~2600, and then there's shopping trips and CCE stuff, but I dunno how many miles they add. Must try harder.
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But what is heavier, a tonne of CO2 or a tonne of
leadHalfords bikes?Posted 12 years ago # -
6630 miles. I win!! ....so far :-)
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About 5500km, I think, a mix of recorded on the road bike and estimated for the Brompton. I reckon that's further than I drove but probably not further than I travelled by car.
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