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GrandpaDenny wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:46 pm approximately 61000 on an '00
Now a little over 81000.

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GrandpaDenny,you got 20,000 milles in a year and a half! :woohoo:
I think I am doing good to have hit 7500 this year :gig:
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cushman eagle wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:48 am GrandpaDenny,you got 20,000 milles in a year and a half! :woohoo:
I think I am doing good to have hit 7500 this year :gig:
Mine just hit 99,050 today :thmup:
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I've been riding so much I realized yesterday I missed a maintenance interval. Now coming up on 82000. Ride ride ride ride ride! That makes 28000 in 23 months.
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You got me beat by a long ways :hmm:
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My XII's ODO is 45K. Had about 28K when I bought it, IIRC. (I spent the first couple years getting it together -- didn't ride much.) Now it's off-line pending desperately-needed maintenance including a new back tire that isn't through the cords. (It was just bald on the side I had been looking at.) :!!

My miles have been almost exclusively on long trips. For local commuting &etc I use ... nothing. I'm happily retired in the mountains and can go a week or more at a time without firing up anything. The grocery store is 10 miles away, and I typically get there on rough twin-tracks, a long-cut across the mesa, on a dirt bike.

But I've got four big loop trips in the queue, including a winter ride along our southern border. Just gotta get off my butt and finish some chores. At least now I have a nice indoor work space, even if I still need to pull the electricity and finish the insulation/drywall.
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1999 has 22,500. my 96 has 95.000
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*Just* shy of 84000 as of last night. 30,000 miles in 24 months. This year I'm averaging almost 2k a month.
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I just rolled the odometer over today :thmup: ,and it now shows 00,002.6 :thk: does that mean it is a new bike? :rolling:
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The end of year for the VXII shows 100,204.1 for 8,603.4 miles for the year :thmup:
For the Cushman end of year is 13,130.3 or 355.5 for the year. :hmm:
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,... resolved... MORE miles this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GBG ... onward....
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cranky wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:47 pm ,... resolved... MORE miles this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GBG ... onward....
Yeah,cranky,that was not enough :hmm:
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I just went out and checked my mileage 202,275. The day after Christmas was a 70 degree day so Trisha and I went for a good ride.
Trisha's Can Am has 13,000 and change in just six months.
We each traveled about 17,500 last year. With the AVA Rally in Flagstaff, we'll just keep going west to the Pacific Hwy and north.
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HMB Don wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:52 pm I just went out and checked my mileage 202,275. The day after Christmas was a 70 degree day so Trisha and I went for a good ride.
Trisha's Can Am has 13,000 and change in just six months.
We each traveled about 17,500 last year. With the AVA Rally in Flagstaff, we'll just keep going west to the Pacific Hwy and north.
Don,I only have 168,000 miles on two wheels in my life since I started riding in 1983. :cry2:
Work has a way of interfering with riding :rolling:
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Loren
I remember those days. NorCal would have a weekend campout, all of the retired members would arrive on Thursday. Trisha and I would leave home on Friday after work. Trisha worked until 5 pm with a 30 minute commute. We'd leave the house by 7 pm., arriving at the campgrounds around 10 pm..
I remember reading about Carl Leo's, BBQ in Ripley, TN. It was 2,000 miles to Ripley from Half Moon Bay. But that summer I retiring, I made it to the BBQ.

Hope you can get the time off to ride to the AVA Rally in Flagstaff!
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I used to put a lot more miles on my bike when I worked. I would ride to work everyday all the way up to December when the snow would fly. Then start again in the early spring. Moon shine lunch run would be in the beginning of April. One of the rides I hit freezing rain then snow. Woke up to a frozen bike covered in ice and snow one morning and the roads where covered with ice and snow. I said to myself . Self we are not going anywhere today.
Since the deer crash I now have 2 bikes so I split the miles between them. My 2002 is approaching 100,000 miles on it that I put on it. I brought that bike new. I miss Carl Leo's BBQ but do make it down to Florida once in a while . My goal is to make every rally I can until I get to old no matter how far away .
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HMB Don wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:10 pm Loren
I remember those days. NorCal would have a weekend campout, all of the retired members would arrive on Thursday. Trisha and I would leave home on Friday after work. Trisha worked until 5 pm with a 30 minute commute. We'd leave the house by 7 pm., arriving at the campgrounds around 10 pm..
I remember reading about Carl Leo's, BBQ in Ripley, TN. It was 2,000 miles to Ripley from Half Moon Bay. But that summer I retiring, I made it to the BBQ.

Hope you can get the time off to ride to the AVA Rally in Flagstaff!
Don,I am still debating the Flagstaff trip :hmm:
It would take most of three weeks,during a rather busy time of harvest. :thk:
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Just passed 86,000. Rollin' rollin' rollin, Gertrude!
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As riding season is over for 2022,my VXII now shows 105,782 :thmup:
Only 5572 for the year :cry2:
The Cushman now shows 13,514 :hmm:
430 for the year
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cushman eagle wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:33 pm my VXII now shows 105,782
Gertrude's going to pass yours soon. 99,500 and change as of half an hour ago. By the time I get done today she'll have about 99,600. I was so hoping to hit 100k by the end of the year. So close!

Yeah I could go for a 500 mile ride in the drizzle and fog. Yuck, no thanks. Errands and going out with friends this evening, that's it for 2022.
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