Only for curiosity...
I have the fortune of living in Tenerife, with excelent temperatures of 20ºC to 28ºC all year long and with no more than 2 or 3 rainy weeks in the part of the island where I live, o I ride around 20.000 kms with my FJ (10.000 kms in my annual travel to Europe) and another around 10.000 kms with my CBX 750
Regards
Alf
I've been averaging about 11-12K miles per year on my FJR. This year may be a bit down, as no trips, just commuting and a few weekend rides.
I'm at around 17k miles since last November so far. We'll see!
Or: probably less than Mike Ramos. Can't wait to hear his number.
My highest year was 1988 with 22k but that was some time ago.
Multiple X country trips on the FJ and daily commute from Palm Desert to Pine Cove via Hwy 74.
Currently I average about 7-8k a year. (4k on the WCR after tour)
Now that I am retired I thought my tour mileage would go up but sadly no...my wife and I have been traveling, sans motorcycle.
Over my 44 year riding career I'm over the half million mile mark with over 200k of that on FJ's.
Cheers.
I'm lucky to get 3-4000 miles in my winter shortened riding season.
Close to 1000 of that is put on during my time attending the FJ rally.
Leon
Quote from: 1tinindian on August 09, 2013, 12:25:15 PM
I'm lucky to get 3-4000 miles in my winter shortened riding season.
Close to 1000 of that is put on during my time attending the FJ rally.
Leon
Pretty much the same camp here...
Dan
Quote from: Dan Filetti on August 09, 2013, 12:53:46 PM
Quote from: 1tinindian on August 09, 2013, 12:25:15 PM
I'm lucky to get 3-4000 miles in my winter shortened riding season.
Close to 1000 of that is put on during my time attending the FJ rally.
Leon
Pretty much the same camp here...
Dan
Less in a year than Mike Ramos rides to the ECFR and back... :sorry:
I've been there for a few years now, but that's changing soon.
I plan to be back to 20-25k before long.
From 1986-1996 I averaged 20,000 a year. I had 16 years of no riding. :dash2:
I have had my FJ for a little over a year and have put 7000 miles on it. There was a 3 month span where I couldn't ride due to the head being rebuilt. I am figuring another 3000 to 5000 miles before the end of the year.
Fred
Last summer @7,000KMs...this working takes up way to much time. So far this year 3,500Kms so total by October probably will be about the same.
Jeff
For past 10 years or so pretty consistently avg about 8k/yr. that is with zero commuting.
A third of yearly miles racked up for the two east coast FJ rallies, the rest from daytrips and some weekend camping with local adv gang.
More miles on two wheels than on four.
I put 300mi/mo on my car (averaged over the year). The bikes aggregate end up gaining 5-7k or so in a year. Mostly touring miles, usually 35-50 runs at the dragstrip yearly.
Yes, I destroy clutches, chains, tires, and so on.
I avg 7000mi/yr. I work on the Ocean 6 months a year so it would be more if I had a normal job. in contrast I put around 1500mi/yr on my truck.
-Scott
Quote from: Pat Conlon on August 09, 2013, 12:02:45 PM
My highest year was 1988 with 22k but that was some time ago.
Multiple X country trips on the FJ and daily commute from Palm Desert to Pine Cove via Hwy 74.
Currently I average about 7-8k a year. (4k on the WCR after tour)
Now that I am retired I thought my tour mileage would go up but sadly no...my wife and I have been traveling, sans motorcycle.
Over my 44 year riding career I'm over the half million mile mark with over 200k of that on FJ's.
Cheers.
If we gave out the "iron butt" award you would be a contender for sure.
I've put 2,161 miles on my latest FJ since the end of June. There are some magnificent roads around here (Austin, Texas). Devil's Backbone, Hamilton Pool Road, Ranch Road 2222, Bullick Hollow Road. Riding these legendary roads is like being in a video game! Especially at night. Also been to Dallas and back and Tyler and back. 3 hours each way, and 4 hours each way, respectively.
Back in my FJ heyday, I averages 7 or 8 K miles per year. My highest mileage was around 12,000 in 1992, but that included 2 round trips from Minneapolis to Mexico, at about 1,500 miles each. Stock seat...
I like to take a 100 to 200 mile joyride every week or two, and do some errand-running on the FJ as well.
Just knockin about, I'll do around 3-4,000 miles/year...I did have a 5-year stretch where I was doing around 12,000/year...and then a blip where I did 17,000 miles in 3 months. Approaching 100,000 lifetime miles and I can easily say that road-trip/rally miles come MUCH easier than LA commuting miles! :yes:
Cap'n Ron. . .
Quote from: FJscott on August 09, 2013, 02:48:25 PM
Quote from: Pat Conlon on August 09, 2013, 12:02:45 PM
My highest year was 1988 with 22k but that was some time ago.
Multiple X country trips on the FJ and daily commute from Palm Desert to Pine Cove via Hwy 74.
Currently I average about 7-8k a year. (4k on the WCR after tour)
Now that I am retired I thought my tour mileage would go up but sadly no...my wife and I have been traveling, sans motorcycle.
Over my 44 year riding career I'm over the half million mile mark with over 200k of that on FJ's.
Cheers.
If we gave out the "iron butt" award you would be a contender for sure.
Ha! no Iron Butt award for me...just "butt"....
The most I've ever traveled in 24 hrs was 825 miles...and I did not want to even look at my bike the next day... I was sore. It was not fun.
I can do and have done, multiple days back to back to back 600+ interstate miles easily.... and multiple 400 mile days of back twisty roads.
The mighty FJ, Corbin seat, man panties and my camel back makes it easy....
1000 mile days are *way* out of my league. I would hallucinate and crash.
In my younger days 20-30000 kms a yr then a long break...real long...now around 3000-5000 kms with this year looking like maybe 7000
We'll not too long ago I was riding 1000klm a week commuting just to work , probably do that many in 3 months now :cray: for fun
I do about 5000 km a year. I ride to work everyday but that's only a 12km round trip, don't go for as many weekend rides as I'd like to either.
I'm only doing about 5000 kms per year at the mo due to being no real nice twisties close by. Early 80s I clocked 85,000kms in 2.5 years on a GS1000G, lots of dirt roads and all. One trip from Pannawonica to Bathurst and back in 83, 17,500kms in 3.5 weeks! No bike from 1987 til 2011 when I bought the FJ. Need to get down SW WA to find some real corners again.
Best year ever was 1986. 34,000 kl on an FZ 750. Includes a trip from Niagara Falls to Vancouver. Now probably 10,000 per year. I cannot ride it to work so only weekends and trips. Maybe I should get a job. So I can ride to work. Put 30,000 per year on my truck as a contractor.
The ridding season is March through October here. During that time I ride about 4,000 miles with no commuting, play miles only. Mostly on the weekends.
Keep the wheels turning. Kurt
Quote from: Dazza57 on August 09, 2013, 06:45:19 PM
I'm only doing about 5000 kms per year at the mo due to being no real nice twisties close by. Early 80s I clocked 85,000kms in 2.5 years on a GS1000G, lots of dirt roads and all. One trip from Pannawonica to Bathurst and back in 83, 17,500kms in 3.5 weeks! No bike from 1987 til 2011 when I bought the FJ. Need to get down SW WA to find some real corners again.
Also earlier quote_
Gidday Benno, welcome to this great site. I'm up north of you in Karratha, hope to get EFFY1 down to Perth next summer, maybe catch up for a chin wag and some liquid refreshments.
Cheers, Dazza
G`day Dazza - Have I gotta deal for you! Get Effy1 across to The Snowy in March.. and I`ll get it back to ya_(So you can fly home)
(Conditions apply) - Ride it across and flips will throw in his trophy for a year. (popcorn)
I've put about 8000mi on mine. Since I got it going last July. My first fj back in 86. I put 14000 on it in 2 1/2 months. And then totaled it out. When a guy on a cb1100f crashed in front of me @ about 135 mph.
Lately, not enough. If I don't get tires ordered this week, I am in danger of riding 4 FJ rallies on the same set of tires. These were new before the 2012 Boone rally and the bike turned 100,000 on the way home; the bike has 106,000 now, so I've ridden the FJ 6,500 miles in 15 months. (I rode an additional 1,000 miles ferrying a Ducati 916 from New Haven to Atlanta the day before Hurricane Sandy hit. Andrew did about 200 of those miles on the 916 while I rode his EX500.)
Andrew put about 5,000 miles on my wife's 250 Ninja and about 5,000 miles so far on his EX500. (Last weekend was the first time I got to see him ride a bike with two new tires on it - a pair of BT-090 radials on the EX500, instead of the squared-off Chinese tires it had last year.)
In better days, I would commute and tour regularly and do 8,000 to 10,000 miles in a good year. Fifteen years ago, I did a Thursday track day at Road Atlanta and went to NYC Friday for a party, came home Sunday night - 2,400 miles in four days. Would love to do something like that again, but need a better seat.
None of us hold a candle to Mike Ramos, who rides from northern California to the Smokies in basically one sitting just to come ride with us. He rides more to/from/during a single FJ rally than I ride most years.