Your Total Outside Miles 1/1-6/30/07?

[Veronica]

How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike? Just wondering. Lusting after a road bike.

You already have the right.

V.

[jobob]

How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike? Just wondering. Lusting after a road bike.

Hee hee, you sound just like me when I first joined this forum. I had my trusty hybrid but, like you I, was lusting for a road bike. I was planning to do a metric century (~ 62 mile) ride in a few months time, after which I figured I would have "earned" the right to own a road bike.

The fine ladies on this forum disabused me of that notion very quickly. I had my first road bike a couple of weeks later.

If you want a road bike, go for it ! You'll be amazed how quickly the miles fly by on one.

[onimity]

I didn't set out with any sort of goal, just to ride my bike to work a few times, so I'm a bit amazed to find that I've been roped into riding a century in August and have ridden just over 1,400 miles since spring. I ride mostly for transportation (haven't driven my car since March) but ride recreationally more and more often.

My total miles this summer is 500 miles. I thought I was doing well until I read the preceeding posts. WOW! My goal this year is to ride 100O miles and a complete a Century. I ride a hybrid but would love to own a road bike. My average spped on my hybrid is 14 mph. I ride for fun / recreation / fitness. How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike? Just wondering. Lusting after a road bike.

500 miles *is* a lot, you are right to be impressed with yourself. I asked myself that same question not too long ago (started commuting on my MTB) and decided that the right answer was 1,000. But at 879 I found the right bike at the right price.

I still ride my MTB most places, it's a very practical bike and carries a lot. But when I started riding 50/60 mile loops on it every weekend, I knew that I could expand my range a lot with a road bike, and that I would be able to keep up with group rides without killing myself.

I know what you mean, though. A road bike is a big investment.

Anne

[Thorn]

How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike?

Miles do not matter. You have earned the road bike as soon as you are aware enough to have asked the question

Seriously...14mph on a hybrid! Awesome. I broke a spoke on my road bike last weekend and we pulled out the hybrids. It is a lot of work to move my hybrid and I was quite pleased with our 13mph average!!! If you're doing 14 now, you'll be pleased as can be when you get that slick road machine

[Batbike]

Looks like the ladies of TE are doing a fantastic job riding many a mile and on different types of bikes -- fantastic!

I think it is super to have a mileage goal ... have one myself. However, please remember that it is NOT how many miles you ride but what you put into each ride that counts! A hard 15 miles is just as good as an endurance 50miles, if you have put body, soul, and heart into the ride.

Personally, I ride for fitness, recreation, and fun. I enjoy engaging in a fast sprint and a long leisurely century with friends. If I reach my year-end goal of 5000 miles that would be great; if I don't, I know I have worked hard and had fun trying!! When it is all said and done, my body, mind, and spirit will be thankful and eager to start again in a new year!!!

[li10up]

How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike? Just wondering. Lusting after a road bike.

One!

[Thel]

Hey Cyclesome--

I'm with you at just over 500 miles this year. I have had a mountain bike for a couple of years, and only ridden it sporadically, but this May I participated in Bike to Work Month. I'll be darned if all that riding didn't get a bit addictive...so I kept commuting by bike in June, began extending my range a little bit, and just took the plunge to buy a road bike a couple of weeks ago. (Whee, is it zippy!)

I ride for fun and transportation, solo so far (a couple of rides with my husband). I look forward to gaining the confidence to do a group ride. I'm a bit of a slowpoke, but I'm getting stronger all the time--I don't have to stop and walk up that one "hill" home from work anymore!

When I was a kid my siblings and I used to ride our bikes all the time during summers. My brain has thus made an apparently permanent connection between "bike" and "vacation"--every time I get on my bike, even to ride to work, I get that "wheeeee, I'm on a bike, this must be a vacation!" sensation. Here's hoping that feeling lasts forever!

[crazycanuck]

4637km..go to bike journal & check me out..

must run off

c

[RolliePollie]

I just made it to 1,000 miles! I bought my bike in mid-February and started out riding just 5-10 miles at a time, so I'm pretty proud of myself for making it to 1,000 by July. I never would've guessed I could ride that far in 4-1/2 months. Heck, I never would've guessed I could EVER ride that far!!!

I ride for fun and for exercise. I definitely want to do a metric later this summer and maybe a full century this fall. Currently, my biggest motivators are watching my leg muscles develop and tracking my progress. I'm so glad I discovered cycling!

[Rumblefish]

[QUOTE=Cyclesome;219035]My total miles this summer is 500 miles. I thought I was doing well until I read the preceeding posts. WOW! QUOTE]


I was thinking the same thing!! I'm right around 500 miles as well. Yay us! And Super wow to all those numbers in the 4 digits!

This is my first year seriously biking (went for a few rides last year but didn't really get into it then). We bought my bike right at the beginning of April this year and it's been all over...I'm hooked and I love it! I think about riding while I'm supposed to be contemplating other things in my classes. Oops If I was 'allowed' to have road bike you certainly are 'cause you've put in more than I did before I got my road bike. But seriously, I agree with everyone else...if you want a road bike, go get one!

I haven't really thought about a mileage goal to be honest. I do have a goal of getting out on the bike at least three times a week. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. But I'm just happy to get out on Delilah (that's what I've finally named my bike, she's gotta have a name right?) when I can.

[oldbikah]

Here in the snowy mountains of western Maine (and we got 9 feet of snow here at Sugarloaf in April this year), I did not start riding until very late April this year. I have logged about 600 miles on a combination of mountain, cross, and road bike. That included doing the 180 mile Trek Across Maine--my first time at that event this June.

That doesn't sound impressive, but for me it is good! Last year I think I had only that much by August! I hope to get to 2500 by September. I ride almost entirely solo; it would be more fun with riding partners but they are hard to find around here!

My goal is to get better at climbing (an uphill battle at age 64-pun intended). I am certainly more fit, but wish a few pounds would slide off!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

So far this year- 1,716 miles.

[PinkBike]

2349 miles, 2 centuries, 5 metric centuries, 35 mile round trip to church every sunday, 11 mile round trip to work every day.

i just love to ride - whenever wherever with whoever. usually just me and DH, but we go on group rides when available. nothing much available right now as its 115 degrees outside! any group rides start at 6 a.m. which i dont do, (i get off work at 10 p.m.) and then i would have to go to work in the afternoon saturday anyway.

[KSH]

Well, since I'm a triathlete, I split my time between 3 sports. So my miles aren't as impressive as some others on here!

Here is what I have from Jan to June 2007:

Bike: 71h 22m 15s - 1139.6 Miles

Run: 49h 32m 05s - 271.56 Miles

Swim: 21h 48m 20s - 77777.63 Yd

[Veronica]

I think that's impressive. Anyone who runs impresses me.

V.