{"id":12475,"date":"2024-11-18T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:02:51","slug":"a-late-year-look-at-bike-miles-for-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/a-late-year-look-at-bike-miles-for-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Late-Year Look At Bike Miles For The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, the V-Strom, the CB750, and the Concours. Good-bye to the Connie, I’ll need now to do a shot of just the remaining two.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s that time where each year I look at the mileage on each of my bikes and set some goals for riding the remaining few weeks. This year is a pretty darn odd year.<\/p>\n

For one thing, I sold the Concours<\/a>. For another, my car got smashed<\/a> and I got another. And third, for the first time in a lot of years it appears I will have put my miles on my car than on my bikes. How did that that happen?<\/p>\n

Just for starters, it’s been a low-mileage year for everything. To date I only have put about 3,100 miles on my cars this year. I’m fine with that. But last year I put about 6,500 miles on my bikes. So far this year I’m at about 2,500 miles on the bikes. Seriously?<\/p>\n

I think a lot of this has to do with the markedly less activity going on with the RMMRC<\/a>. Ever since I joined that group I have gone on a whole lot of rides with them, but this year there just haven’t been that many rides. And one ride that did happen that I intended to go on–a Colorado four-corners ride–I had to drop out of because I had had minor butt surgery that made riding just too painful.<\/p>\n

I know Bruce, one of my friends from the RMMRC, also rides with a couple other groups and has suggested I join them. I may do just that. It looks like the RMMRC may be fading away.<\/p>\n

So what goals can I set for the rest of 2024? I try each year to put at least 1,000 miles on each of my bikes. That may not seem like much but for a long time I have had trouble getting that many miles on the Honda CB750 Custom. I’ve just ridden the other bikes a whole lot more. But with the sale of the Connie I figured for sure I’d put a lot more miles on the Honda.<\/p>\n

And yet, here we are in mid-November and I have put almost the same number of miles on the Honda this year as last year. I still have time and the weather has been pretty good so I do expect yet to surpass last year but more than 1,000? It doesn’t seem likely. But surpassing last year looks like the best I can hope for. And as for turning the odometer over another 1,000, that really looks like it’s off the table because I just did that, sitting now at 38,136. I don’t think I’m going to be putting another 864 miles on that bike this year. I’m just going to have to do better next year.<\/p>\n

As for the V-Strom, I’m about 2,000 miles behind last year on it. What I can shoot for is at least turning over another 1,000 yet, as the odo now sits at 47,930. If I can’t get another 70 miles on that bike this year I should hang up riding gear.<\/p>\n

I don’t think there’s any doubt what my New Year’s resolution needs to be come January 1: Ride. And ride some more. And ride some more. And then some more after that.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe road never ends . . . only our vision does.\u201d — Amit Reddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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