Poll - How many miles do you ride annually

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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    itboffin wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Bearing in mind most of the world use the metric system (pretty much us and the sceptics holding on), shouldn't we be looking to fall into line? I've never used fahrenheit, rods, pole, chains etc so why do we hang on with so much passion to the imperial system that makes no logical sense?

    must be a witch, burn him!
    8)
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    around 8000 miles a year. allows me to indulge in a few pies :)
  • DeEmBe
    DeEmBe Posts: 31
    Somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 miles this year is the target and on course so far.
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    philbar72 wrote:
    around 8000 miles a year. allows me to indulge in a few pies :)

    using a very vague maths of average calories per mile being 25 ... and the average pie being 500cal .... I figure you can have 1 pie a day at that mileage
  • shaun668
    shaun668 Posts: 52
    I'll be around the 2.5-3.0k mark for the year and i thought that was quite good, but compared with some of you guys that's a poor effort.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Tashman wrote:
    Bearing in mind most of the world use the metric system (pretty much us and the sceptics holding on), shouldn't we be looking to fall into line? I've never used fahrenheit, rods, pole, chains etc so why do we hang on with so much passion to the imperial system that makes no logical sense?
    You mean you never gone out and drank several Firkins
    Firkin hell.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Webboo wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Bearing in mind most of the world use the metric system (pretty much us and the sceptics holding on), shouldn't we be looking to fall into line? I've never used fahrenheit, rods, pole, chains etc so why do we hang on with so much passion to the imperial system that makes no logical sense?
    You mean you never gone out and drank several Firkins
    Firkin hell.
    not that i'm aware of, but i regularly imbibe several 568ml vessels of a Friday and Saturday evening
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    that's a lot of milk to drink
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    fat daddy wrote:
    that's a lot of milk to drink
    nah that's sold in litres already these days
  • sigorman85
    sigorman85 Posts: 2,536
    A lot more goes into the factors of distance cycling

    Family ?
    A job ?
    Are you retired?
    Single?
    U.K.?
    Overseas dry and sunny?


    I work long hours and I have a young daughter and a wife so the time I have off is hard to say I'm going out to do 100 miles.... it's the guilt factor the stops me lol

    But I'm on for 2500-3000 weather depending
    When i die I just hope the wife doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it other wise someone will be getting a mega deal!!!


    De rosa superking 888 di2
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Looking at around 8,500 miles this year and most of it on 'free time', i.e. when most people are sat on a Train I'm training but also getting home.
  • ollie.williams260
    ollie.williams260 Posts: 68
    8k excluding miles on the turbo, but do they count??
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    sigorman85 wrote:
    A lot more goes into the factors of distance cycling
    Family ?
    A job ?
    Are you retired?
    Single?
    U.K.?
    Overseas dry and sunny?

    I cycle loads more now than I did before family came along. I reckon the patterns of family life force you into a routine and if you can't find a way of getting cycling into that routine it doesn't get done. So I commute every work day - that's the vast majority of my cycling - and if I want a day out on the bike it goes in the calendar. Audaxes, Sportives are good for that sort of thing, say once a month throughout the year.
    5000 for me this year tops. I don't want to get into the mindset of putting in miles to achieve a mileage target though, I don't relish the idea of a couple of hundred miles in Christmas week to hit target. :roll:
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    fat daddy wrote:
    philbar72 wrote:
    around 8000 miles a year. allows me to indulge in a few pies :)

    using a very vague maths of average calories per mile being 25 ... and the average pie being 500cal .... I figure you can have 1 pie a day at that mileage

    Haha, one a week is enough!
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    The roads in this country are measured in miles. My car's speedometer is in mph. If I was a foreigner in foreigner land, I might measure it in Km's, but I'm not, so I'll stick to miles. Back on topic though, I usually ride between 10 and 15 thousand miles per year, I'm on track for 12000 miles this year, at present.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    The roads in this country are measured in miles. My car's speedometer is in mph. If I was a foreigner in foreigner land, I might measure it in Km's, but I'm not, so I'll stick to miles.
    I know that, my argument is that we became metricated before i was even born, so surely it's about time we did it properly and adopted the system in its entirity
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,579
    edited October 2016
    What size wheels and tyres do all these imperial lovers ride on? And what size frames?
    Road cycling is a metric sport.
    Dark siding is an American sport and uses imperial measurements. :mrgreen:

    Last year I did 10,150 kms on the road and another 2,550 kms on the turbo.
    This year i'm up to 9,830 kms on the road and 2,075 kms on zwift.

    And i don't commute and do have a family! :lol:

    Just as important is climbing, but any climbing recorded on a phone doesn't count!
    Broke through 120,000 m yesterday, 118,760m last year.
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Tashman wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    it's about time we did it properly and adopted the system in its entirity

    Oh I like the mixed unit approach, my favourite is buying car tires.

    245x45r18

    that's 245mm x 45% and 18" ...... yay 3 units in one measurement, one imperial, one metric and a percentage .. shame they couldn't work a fraction in to that as well

    perhaps the fraction could be of the wheels per car, so if you only buy 1 wheel that's 1/4 ... so the purchace would be 245x45r18&1/4
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    fat daddy wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    it's about time we did it properly and adopted the system in its entirity

    Oh I like the mixed unit approach, my favourite is buying car tires.

    245x45r18

    that's 245mm x 45% and 18" ...... yay 3 units in one measurement, one imperial, one metric and a percentage .. shame they couldn't work a fraction in to that as well
    Surely percentage is just a metric value of a fraction :)
  • redbikejohn
    redbikejohn Posts: 160
    I had no idea so I checked strava and was surprised to see 2693 miles. Hopefully if the weather holds I'll add more.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    So far it's been between 5000 and 12000 miles so I can't really answer the poll!
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Gromson
    Gromson Posts: 100
    12,174 miles in 2014. 12,224 miles in 2015. Currently on 9433 miles and on track for 12,000+ by December 31 assuming I don't turn into a pumpkin on my holiday in November.

    I get up early and ride before driving to work, and again after getting home (it's not possible to cycle commute at present).
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Tashman wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    The roads in this country are measured in miles. My car's speedometer is in mph. If I was a foreigner in foreigner land, I might measure it in Km's, but I'm not, so I'll stick to miles.
    I know that, my argument is that we became metricated before i was even born, so surely it's about time we did it properly and adopted the system in its entirity
    We haven't as a country gone fully metric, and now that we're on the way out of Europe maybe we can see sense and be allowed to sell goods in whatever units suit us best. How anyone can call imperial measurements illogical and nonsensical is beyond me, given that when the Romans invented it they built a decent empire on it, and so did we a few years later. Anything that's based on human size measurements, is readily divisible by numerous factors and was instrumental in mechanising the world, can't be described as anything but The Right Choice.

    Miles? Peaked at 5218 in 2012, now after a steady year on year drop currently on 574 for 2016, and quite happy with that.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    CiB wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    The roads in this country are measured in miles. My car's speedometer is in mph. If I was a foreigner in foreigner land, I might measure it in Km's, but I'm not, so I'll stick to miles.
    I know that, my argument is that we became metricated before i was even born, so surely it's about time we did it properly and adopted the system in its entirity
    We haven't as a country gone fully metric, and now that we're on the way out of Europe maybe we can see sense and be allowed to sell goods in whatever units suit us best. How anyone can call imperial measurements illogical and nonsensical is beyond me, given that when the Romans invented it they built a decent empire on it, and so did we a few years later. Anything that's based on human size measurements, is readily divisible by numerous factors and was instrumental in mechanising the world, can't be described as anything but The Right Choice.
    I both agree and disagree. Yes we should be allowed to sell things how we like, but then it makes sense for everyone to adopt an easy to understand system too. Last time i looked everyone around me was a different shape and size so in my head the basis on human measurement is flawed. And having all the measurements divisible by differing units is just odd to me.

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