How far is your commute? How far would you go?

jonboy22 · Crazy Courier Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

Just realised today for the first time in 3 months that my round trip door to door is 116 miles!! Which is ridiculous I think....

Am I killing my Gixxer k4. I have no real intention of selling it so not too fussed about its resale value but am I doing too much milage, if that's possible?? ShouldI just get a cruddy 500 to take me to work?

How far do you commute and how far would you go??
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

manthis question is asked on a monthly basis with great consistancy too,

me 250 miles a week, soon to go up to 500 miles a week,

my longest ever commute was from Falmouth -> Plymouth and back for nigh a month
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

My ride to work is only two miles ( although if I'm up early it takes a lot longer ), but as for long distance commuting I'd go no further than say twenty miles.....
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jonboy22 · Crazy Courier Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

Oh right , get something crap , a GPZ500 can be had for £500-1000 (more money = better _ or proper commuter tools like GT550s NTV650s can be had for £500ish quid and are almost but not quite indestructable cheap to run and on parts too, that said Sickpup says GT550s eat brakes alive dunno what he means about that though I have a GT550 in Plymouth rotting away in my bunker there.
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jonboy22 · Crazy Courier Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

Yeah just noticed a similar post by trevoriv.

Think the fact that I've just ticked over 10k on the K4 has scared me a little. Dunno why just feel as though I'm hurting it, even though she gets looked after like a princess.

Might investigate something I can just trash but 116 round trip is a long way on a banger. To be honest its not a money issue either, a tenner a day on fuel (at the moment) is a heck of a lot cheaper than a 40 quid return on the train everyday.

Bah I dunno, might get one of those el cheapo korean ripp off jobbies, give it a tasty fluorescent pink paint job, baked bean tin exhaust, stereo and monster truck tyres to drive over the traffic......
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jonboy22 · Crazy Courier Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

Well time wise it's not all that great either.

I'm thinking my clocks are buggerd. I can get from door to door in about and hour and ten minutes on a good day, which is bollox, as I think that means that I average 100mph all the way, which can't be right.

I've had the bike for 3 months now and have put about 6500 miles on the clock. That can't be right.....maybe all the clocks are secretly in km.....hmm
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Cragy · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Karma :

Telford To Shrewsbury, bout 23 miles every other day on a 50 Confused

But Ide comute much further if I had a bigger bike.
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bazza · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Karma :

Bikes are meant to be ridden, FFS.

Not washed, blowdried and locked away in a "climate controlled garage" for six days a week, six months of the year.

Well, apart from Harleys, obviously.
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krebsy · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Karma :

Was an 18 mile run up the motorway and dual carriage way to work, then the same but back along the twisties in the evening.

Our office has moved. Where to? 700 bleedin' yards away from home. Now I've no excuses bar lazyness to cycle or walk in. Sad

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Wave2k · G's Stalker Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Karma :

i commute by scooter 6 miles a day.
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jonboy22 · Crazy Courier Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

The favorite two parts of my day are getting up and getting on my bike at 7:00am and getting up out of my chair at 5:00pm on the dot to get on my bike.

That said I would obviously like a bit more "free" time either side but that doesn't bother me too much, I'm enjoying my riding.

As for the Gixxer itslef, I love riding it, I really do, in fact in the last three months there have only been, I think, four days that I haven't taken it for at least a half an hour ride....

The petrol money isn't an issue as I'm paying for something that I'm passionate about and my job is well paid enough to leave me with a bit of shrapnel each month for beer on the weekends.

I just feel that the bike is doing too much mileage for some reason, hence want a chitty chitty bang bang kaboom 400/500. Oh and I wasn't slating 500's I was just after a particularly "I couldn't give a monkeys about this bike" one that didn't cost to much.

Might retire the Gixxer for the winter and just lump it on the train.... Crying or Very sad

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mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

I did commute 40 miles a day on my 125, then when I moved to Aberdeen I commuted 35 miles on dual carriageway on my VT, now I commute 14 miles a day from in town on my GPZ, which is pretty much nothing really. The challenge is the mile or two of filtering either way. Going on the dual carriageway encouraged me to be somewhat illegal, which was not good.

A shaft driven bike was nice as the rear end looked after itself. The tyres didn't leak 1 single psi over the six months I had the bike either. Not bad for 18 year old Comstar jobbies. Shocked

Once you've got used to the idea that the bike isn't going to blow up just because it's an old wreck, long journies aren't a big deal. 300 miles in a day wasn't a challenge for it at all.

A tip for getting a commuter machine: go for a Honda middleweight V-twin, something like the NTV/ Bros/ Dullville. They'll go and go and go and go and so on..
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LustyLew · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Karma :

I used to ride 110 miles a day on my ER5. Whatever the weather.

Now it's down to under 20 a day. Dont think I'd like to do my old commute, it's not so much the miles, just the endless battle with immigrant drives through Dalston/Kingsland, Tottenham, Seven Sisters and all the way up the A10 to Hertfordshire!
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trevoriv · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Karma :

Im looking to be doing 50 miles each way but when my company moves office it will only be 40 miles each way of pure mway commute which i have done before in about 15-20 mins Smile

think i'd be bored on a GPZ or similar so i think i may initially stick with the zxr and ride it sensibly Smile

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trevoriv · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Karma :

the gpz stands lower than my waist tho so i think it will be uncomfortable Confused

phk6 · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Karma :

my comute is about 4 miles a day but its the distance i ride for pleasure after work that is high i do nearly 100-150 miles every night just riding around wiht no destination in mind, to be fair i dont care if its killing my bike it wot its there for my pleasure after all i look after it well so why should it fail me?
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