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Just on average, how long do members usually "go on a ride" for?

Quote from: professor_pro on May 21, 2008, 07:35:21 PM
Just on average, how long do members usually "go on a ride" for?

It depends.

Our regular Sunday ride runs from 9:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. or so, but there's stops in between for lunch, etc.

Some evenings I'll go out for an hour or two. Especially if I've had a long day at the shop, I'll take the long way home.

If we're "on tour", like out to the Hill Country or somewhere like that, I'll ride 8+ hours.

On weekends i go for 4hrs average,on weekdays between 2-4 hrs.( city rides )

Hmm.  Breakfast run, maybe an hour.  Sunday ride is 2-3.  Commute is 7-10 minutes ;D

Normally it`s the whole day, but actual riding time equates to about 2 hours [thumbsup]

I commute any where from 1 to 2 hours a day and rarely ride weekends unless I am going to some motorcycle event. Yeah I know... I have it all wrong :)

usually an hour or less i get like 3 times a year on those days I do 300 miles or more which are the times I live for.

-panthro

When I do get out it's usually an all day event.

A 300 mile day is a good one.

One to two hours here.  We only get out on weekends.  Work hours suck during the week.

300+

anything shorter is just a commute

It really varies, but the best ones are 300-mile, full-day affairs.

I get out for a variety of "types" of rides on a daily basis about 8 months a year (Pac NW). Daily commuting is 5-30 minutes to and from work (2 miles) depending on the route. Daily fun rides (git'er done, and git bak 2 werk), are a  5 minute ride to a sweet 45 minute canyon/river loop. 3-4 times a week I do a 3-5 hour ride with lots of old favorites and new exploration rides (last week I explored to the point I ended up on 3 different canyon roads that turned to gravel, so had to abort - unless I am on my KTM dual sport  8) [evil] )... And, 2-3 times a month I do a 700-800 mile overnighter (hotel camping) and then twice a riding season, I do a 4-6 day long trip hotel camping trip.

Last season I rode 18K miles...  ;D

Except for commuting and sales calls - (thank god for lane "sharing")

it's usually AFD (8+ hours)

I commute most days (about 20 minutes).  Rides on weekends are usually a 1/2 affair, but about 2 hours riding. 

i usually don't ride to and from work, mostly weekends.
when the weekend comes, i try to do as much as possible,
limiting my rides to between 2-4 hours each

[moto]

I ride to work and school everday, which round trip adds up to about 110 miles.  Sunday rides usually last half a day with about 2 hours of riding.

I'm a 6-8hr guy. Pretty much all day and an average of 250 miles and up on the twistiest stuff I can find.  [moto]

Most sundays with guys from the NYMMC meet at 8-9am and head out and get home around 11pm.  usually 400+ miles mostly twisties.  But this isn't on the monster, it's on a 749.

During the week, I'll usually commute the 15 minutes to the ol' 9-to-5er, then take the long way home (about 50 miles)...

Saturday + Sunday, I like to ride at least 100+ miles each time I go out, often closer to 200....Six hours is a safe average, with a few breaks factored in....  [coffee]

Don't get to ride that much during the week.

On the weekends I try and shoot for at least a couple of hours at a time.

I almost never ride during the week but if I do it's about 1-2 hours.

Weekends are my riding days.  It takes about an hour to get across town to the bottom of the mountain.  We will spend 2 - 2.5 hours on the mountain.  After riding the mountain, we go get breakfast then from 30 minutes to another hour to get home. 

Lessee...

So that's 4-6 hours.   [moto]

Pretty much everywhere I go I take the scooter. Average a little over 1000 mi. a month. I've been doing that since 1972.

I'm not sure I ever considered motorcycles a sport. It's a VERY sporty means of conveyance though. [moto]

LA

well, highway to the twisties is a solid hour each way, so start with two.  two or three of actual riding, plus lunch and stops, comes to about six all included.

The usual ride after work when I go is for a couple of hours.  Sundays is an all day afair  [moto]

Quote from: scienceiscool on May 23, 2008, 09:10:53 AM
well, highway to the twisties is a solid hour each way, so start with two.  two or three of actual riding, plus lunch and stops, comes to about six all included.

wow... an hour ride to get to the twisties...

sometimes, i forget how lucky i am  [moto]

I've been riding my vespa a lot on weekdays,on weekend is when i take out the main squeeze. :)

Quote from: elTreesto on May 21, 2008, 10:52:48 PM
Hmm.  Breakfast run, maybe an hour.  Sunday ride is 2-3.  Commute is 7-10 minutes ;D

Sunday ride?  Hell, you and your bromance partner never make it due to the booze you drink the night before.   [cheeky]

Typically on weekends when we have a babysitter and can go riding, our normal day is 10-14 hours and it is not uncommon to grab a hotel for Friday and/or Saturday evening and do it all over again the next day. Just this past weekend, we rode nearly 200 miles after work on Thursday, over 200 miles after work on Friday, over 300 miles on Saturday, and over 350 on Sunday......nothing but mountain twisty roads, too.   [thumbsup]  300+ miles in the mountains is usually 8-12 hours depending on the route and how long we spend BS'ing with the people we meet or where we stop for breakfast/lunch/dinner..........a little under 20 hours for a SaddleSore 1000 was the longest we'd been on the road in a single day.....we logged over 1600 miles in two days, that weekend.

I tend to go out in the AM and come back around 4-5pm.  It will be 8 hours + some days.  I like to go on some pretty extended rides.  My next one is to Charleston WV and back.  8+ hours.  I only go out on short trips when i've got more of an errand to do or i'm riding to work.  Most trips are at least 4+ hours.  There are some awesome roads very close to my house - no reason to sit on the sofa!!  [thumbsup]

Beyond summer commuting (we have winter here) 25 minutes each way, it tends to be 1 to 2 hour stints on the back roads around home.

One or 2 weekend jaunts, and starting last summer trying for one major event trip a year.  Last summer it was 14 days out in the NW and rockies.  Did about 5400 miles.  But I cheated, rode the FJR.

Weekdays I use the bike to commute, an hour each way primarily on the slab.

On the weekends, I take her out whenever I get the latest house restoration project done...so anywhere between 30min-4 hours hunting for new twisty roads (not the easiest thing to find in central NJ).

Quote from: Pakhan on May 22, 2008, 01:28:32 PM
Most sundays with guys from the NYMMC meet at 8-9am and head out and get home around 11pm.  usually 400+ miles mostly twisties.  But this isn't on the monster, it's on a 749.

Pak, reading through these replies... it seems you, GC, Cru, etc (and me to a certain extent) are the crazy ones around here [evil]!!

For those curious:

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=3836