Annual Mileage

[Rawwr]

How many miles do you cover per year on bikes?

Mine's about 12,500 which I'm guessing is above average?

[Aubrey]

I do a little less than that. My gixer is a 55 plate and I've put just over 20K on it from new.

[Rick448]

About 15k miles a year on my CB500 commuter and 5K on my ZX9R toy.

[Mr OCD]

Rawwr said:

How many miles do you cover per year on bikes?

Mine's about 12,500 which I'm guessing is above average?

I average 14k-16k miles at the moment ... that will go up / down shortly due to job change.

I think average on a bike is 4k miles? - I'm sure I read that somewhere...

[Aubrey]

Perhaps the original questions should be split between commuting and simply going for a blast. Mine is a mixture of both as I only have one bike (and a car) but some people have two bikes, one for commuting and one for hooning.

[SplatSpeed]

i am on target for 36 a year

Edited by SplatSpeed on Thursday 31st July 16:16

[Dudd]

I've had my bike about 2 months and done about 1300 miles or so. mixture of commuting and and hooning

[Wyvern971]

I've had my bike for just over a year and have hit 12.2k in use for commuting and for going out for rides.

[black-k1]

This year I'm on target for 12k to 14k.

[Rawwr]

I don't know where this average of 4,000 came from

[dern]

Mine's coming up to 37k and I've had it 7 years, 3 months so that's 5100 a year on average give or take. I use it just for commuting and a few weekends away. Any travelling with the family is done in the car and there's been at least two years where I've only done a few hundred miles for one reason or another. My commute has varied between a mile each way to 50 miles each way.

[Graham]

If I continue at my current rate its going to be 10-12k pa

[IsMad]

I use mine for just getting around, my commute is only 2miles each way . I have done 8300 so far, well almost a year, and I suspect that I will see another 12000 in the next 12 months

[The T Boy]

About 14k commuting plus up to 1,000 touring so about 15k in total.

[rsv gone!]

Rawwr said:

I don't know where this average of 4,000 came from

From all the weekend, occasional riders. Mind you, their bikes make fantastic second hand buys!

I did about 7-8K last year. My R1 is on around 16K at the moment. Be time for another service come September, after a trip down to the Pyrenees

[RemaL]

3k last year on the fazer and so far 1700miles on the triple since March but thats only been at weekend

[dern]

rsv gone! said:

Rawwr said:

I don't know where this average of 4,000 came from

From all the weekend, occasional riders. Mind you, their bikes make fantastic second hand buys!

I did about 7-8K last year. My R1 is on around 16K at the moment. Be time for another service come September, after a trip down to the Pyrenees

...although if your bike is a 2004 and it's done 16k miles then that's bang on 4k a year on average isn't it?

I think that the 4k a year is pretty representative as although there are bikes that have done a lot more the numbers of them will be small compared to the number of bikes in total and the amount extra they do a year isn't sufficiently greater than 4000 to significantly pull the average up.

[rsv gone!]

dern said:

rsv gone! said:

Rawwr said:

I don't know where this average of 4,000 came from

From all the weekend, occasional riders. Mind you, their bikes make fantastic second hand buys!

I did about 7-8K last year. My R1 is on around 16K at the moment. Be time for another service come September, after a trip down to the Pyrenees

...although if your bike is a 2004 and it's done 16k miles then that's bang on 4k a year on average isn't it?

It is indeed, although I bought it at around one year old with hardly any miles on. As I said, good second hand buys.

[trendy tramp]

about 23k per year commuting + about 5k having a blast

[Robertjp]

done 4.5k in 3 months! commuting and fun - 80% commuting. its a bugger on the SV servicing wise?