high mileage commuters... speak up!!
08-22-2005, 06:57 AM
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high mileage commuters... speak up!!
I have a round trip of 135 miles per day on my SH.... not to include my tooling around during the day... and a little on the weekends....
bought 27 June 2005
11,487 miles on the odo
today, 22 Aug 2005
17,855 miles on the odo
6368 miles traveled in less than 2 months
55 days = 115 miles per day average....
I wouldn't have it any other way.... 8)
bought 27 June 2005
11,487 miles on the odo
today, 22 Aug 2005
17,855 miles on the odo
6368 miles traveled in less than 2 months
55 days = 115 miles per day average....
I wouldn't have it any other way.... 8)
08-22-2005, 08:01 AM
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Wow man you do drive a lot! I've had my SH since July of 2004 with 0 miles on it...it currently has 8000 miles on it. And I have had my new RC for just over a week and it has 225 miles on it. But you do have a lot of mile to drive every day...I'm like 7 miles away from work.
08-22-2005, 10:32 AM
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Re: high mileage commuters... speak up!!
yeah.. I know.... 8)
I will tell you this... I have NO TIME for carvin a canyon out here, but my 208's are holding up GREAT so far for all the flat line driving I do.... hardly any wear showing yet...
I will tell you this... I have NO TIME for carvin a canyon out here, but my 208's are holding up GREAT so far for all the flat line driving I do.... hardly any wear showing yet...
08-22-2005, 10:36 AM
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Good to hear! Same goes for my 208's! They hold up really well IMO.
08-22-2005, 12:58 PM
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30 miles each way - and I thought I had it BAD! I bought it July 1st with 11,000 miles and now I'm nearly to 17,000. BUT I took it to Laguna Seca (from Seattle) and had a few 500+ mile days in there (11 day trip - 3500 miles total)
08-22-2005, 02:08 PM
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I never thought I would see the days of $10 to fill a bike.. and thats daily for me...
08-22-2005, 02:35 PM
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I never thought I would see the days of $10 to fill a bike.. and thats daily for me...
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08-22-2005, 11:22 PM
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My old VTR back in Sydney used to do 140-odd km round trip per day. Now, on my XX, I'm not that high with only 40 miles a day. However, I intersperse that with a lot of long distance touring. Just shy of 5000 miles in the last 3 weeks. Bike is 2.5 years old and just short of 40K miles on the clock 
08-23-2005, 08:32 PM
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Now that I'm commuting in DC it's ~40 miles per day during the week, and around 100 on either saturday or sunday each weekend. Just rolled 740 in two days on the way up to and around Dayton OH. Turned 10K on the clock on my way up there, Bought the bike new in March last year, but didn't ride for about 6 months last year between my 4-month hiatus due to my wreck (tore 3 of 4 ligaments in left knee), and about 2 months for the Dayton winter. The daily mileage has increase since I moved to DC, but the increased gas price prevents it from being as fun as it should be...
08-24-2005, 10:06 PM
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Re: high mileage commuters... speak up!!
I'm suprised that no one has mentioned doing an Iron Butt. I did one this spring.... on my BMW. I figure if a couple of guys did 1000 mi in a day on Buells then I should be able to do it on a Hawk. They said their biggest problem was no knowing how far to the next gas station. If they had gone 90mi and saw a gas station, they had to stop because they didn't know if there would be another one in the next 40 mi.
Heated clothes are 10x better then heated grips. If it is cold out, you are going to be wearing heavy gloves that insulate you from the heated grips. I find the only time I use them is when my gloves get wet. The heat helps to dry the gloves out faster, but if your hands are cold, you need to get heated gloves.
I do commute to work every dry day here in NJ, but I only have a 3mi drive to work, so I gotta get my riding in other times. I'm sure everyone has had one of those days were the weather is perfect and it takes 5 hrs to get back from lunch. By that time it isn't worth going back to work, so I might as well take the long way home...
Heated clothes are 10x better then heated grips. If it is cold out, you are going to be wearing heavy gloves that insulate you from the heated grips. I find the only time I use them is when my gloves get wet. The heat helps to dry the gloves out faster, but if your hands are cold, you need to get heated gloves.
I do commute to work every dry day here in NJ, but I only have a 3mi drive to work, so I gotta get my riding in other times. I'm sure everyone has had one of those days were the weather is perfect and it takes 5 hrs to get back from lunch. By that time it isn't worth going back to work, so I might as well take the long way home...
08-24-2005, 10:09 PM
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I'm suprised that no one has mentioned doing an Iron Butt. I did one this spring.... on my BMW. I figure if a couple of guys did 1000 mi in a day on Buells then I should be able to do it on a Hawk. They said their biggest problem was no knowing how far to the next gas station. If they had gone 90mi and saw a gas station, they had to stop because they didn't know if there would be another one in the next 40 mi.
Distance on the 'Hawk isn't a big deal except for the fuel issue but there are data bases with gas station locations that it wouldn't be that hard to put together a "station to station" type ride (which on a Hawk would be necassary!!)Are you following the Iron Butt Rally in progress right now? They left Denver Monday morning....
08-25-2005, 05:39 PM
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Re: high mileage commuters... speak up!!
Last year My VTR and I did 130 miles a day for 2 years over hwy17 here in Santa Cruz, of course sunny days only, I put 14k on the clock just commuting. Never had one problem! My 93 VFR did a similar commute for 4 years to college SJSU, she only had 63K miles...then I crashed. Everyday was a fill-up w/the vtr, the viffer went 3 days w/out a refill. the viffer almost sent me to my death bed when the rear wheel decided to loose the main nut and back it self out of the swingarm at 80mph. Ya'll can imagine.
08-25-2005, 08:27 PM
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Re: high mileage commuters... speak up!!
I've ridden just over 10,000 miles since buying my 98 SH in february, my commute is 45 miles roundtrip 5 days per week and then riding on the weekend, usually a couple hundred on Sat and Sun. I've not had a single glitch with this bike, I replaced the CCT's a thousand miles ago, for no reason, other than outta fear. I love this bike.
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08-26-2005, 11:44 AM
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08-26-2005, 10:18 PM
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Re: high mileage commuters... speak up!!
I thought this was for high mileage commuters.
My shawk is pleasure use only, I drive a company service van for Xerox.
I just got back from visiting my brother in San Rafael.
I try to take backroads as much as possible and it works out to about 1100 miles in two days. I guess I do a lot of overnighters to San Rafael and full day rides that have been consistantly adding miles for the 7 years I've had the shawk.
I was surprised to see the odometer reads in six ditgits.
I have 132.K on the shawk now, American Honda said I was the first they'd heard of to hit 100.K on a shawk.
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My shawk is pleasure use only, I drive a company service van for Xerox.
I just got back from visiting my brother in San Rafael.
I try to take backroads as much as possible and it works out to about 1100 miles in two days. I guess I do a lot of overnighters to San Rafael and full day rides that have been consistantly adding miles for the 7 years I've had the shawk.
I was surprised to see the odometer reads in six ditgits.
I have 132.K on the shawk now, American Honda said I was the first they'd heard of to hit 100.K on a shawk.
~Jeffers
08-27-2005, 08:20 AM
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Iron But, you say? Sure. I do that almost once a month. A couple of our clients are in Monterey, I live in Seattle. When I head down there on business trips I normally go down in one day and then take 2 days coming back via all the fun roads. Door to door down the I-5 et al, it's 914 miles and takes me 13.5 hours normally. Anything under 600 miles in a day is a short ride to me. My previous to last trip was to LA. I rode both down there and back as two one day trips. That's just shy of 1200 miles and takes about 17 hours. One of these days I'll actually do the formal paperwork and submit it for the SS1K, but haven't yet.
