I started riding about 28 yrs. ago. The first 5 yrs. I was a "bike only" guy and really racked up the miles. I also use to take 4K-5K mile road trips every summer.

I did some back of the envelope math adding up the miles on some of the more tired bikes I've sold and came up with around 400K miles.

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Bikin' John
'93 Honda CB750 Nighthawk

I started riding 4 years ago and I have clocked in about 52,000 miles combining the mileage of the two bikes I've owned. Most of the mileage came from riding the Vulcan 500. It seems like the more power the bike has the farther I tend to ride so imagine how many miles I'll rack up when I upgrade to: Kawasaki Versys, Suzuki V-strom 650 or Ninja 500 (too many choices so little money).

If I get the Piaggio MP3 500 I'll probably average 20,000 miles a year compared to my current 12,000 since I would be able to ride in more weather conditions.

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One thing you can count on: You push a man too far, and sooner or later he'll start pushing back.

I've put about 3500 miles on my wee Ninja 250 in about 1.5 years of ownership. I need to find some time between work/school to get out and do some real rides, not just use as a commuter bike.

I've got about 500,000 street miles. However, I'd say about 400,000 were just boring commute miles and don't account for much in my book.

I prefer QUALITY over quantity and the last 100,000 or so of group riding the twisties has honed my skills much more than the prior 400,000...

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My rider blog

I have about 21,000. I have only been driving motorcycles for 21 months.

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You only live once!

We currently own:
Me== 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Classic
2007 Yamaha Royal Star Tour Deluxe
Hubby== 2007 Vulcan 2000 Classic LT
2008 Yamaha Royal Star Tour Deluxe

I have 2 beautiful sons Jason 17 and Brian 13

How many years have you been riding?

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Mike


Loud Pipes Ruin Rights

Alpha, that's an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing - my experience is very different. Group rides I've been on usually have enough constraints - allowing for slower riders, keeping the group together, etc - to rule out challenging riding for skill enhancement. Group rides are an enjoyable social experience though. But commuting for me is riding on the edge - survival in heavy traffic, probably my best chance for speed (the LEO's just sit and watch ya go by in the a.m. rush! ), and those fun freeway on and off ramps....

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2005 Triumph Bonneville
2005 Suzuki V-Strom 1000
2003 Triumph Trophy 1200
2009 BMW F650GS (wife's)
1990 HD Sportster XL883 (for sale; wanna buy a Sportster??)

Good point. I had it summed up well in one of my recent classes.

"I don't have 20 years of experience. I have 1 year of experience 20 times over."

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I put 13000 on the vulcan, 1000 on the 1800 and like 3000 or 4000 on my dad's 250 duel sport (half of that was off road doing jumps and such)

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03 Honda VTX 1800c
87 Yamaha TT350
86 Kawasaki Vulcan 750 (sold) Have fun in Mexico Mr. Vulcan!


YES my spellin sucks, get over it, or you can be my personal spell check

I have absolutely no idea how many miles I've traveled on bikes in 40 yrs.
My 550 Honda had 106,000 plus, 17,000 on CD175 before that.
I've forgotten exactly how many bikes I've had.
I rode MX and Enduro's 150~200 miles a day off road, most weekends for 5 ys
I also worked as bike mechanic, shop foreman, service manager, so I rode other peoples bikes on a daily basis for years.
Quite probably in excess of quarter million miles on bikes. (possibly much higher?)
If I use bike for work its only 200 miles a week, but, I can easily do 225 miles on a Sunday just riding around although I don't ride much in the summertime, its too hot in central Florida (I refuse to ride in 'T' shirt, shorts and flip flops, plus I wear a full face helmet )
PJ

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