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Annual commute distance?

  • 18-10-2016 02:41PM
    #1
    GG21057
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭


    This is my first year commuting regularly by bike. I have just gone over 5000kms so far and expect to do 6000 by year end.
    Am on Trek 1.5 doing a 40km round trip per day averaging 4 days per week.
    Is this average? What are other commuters doing?


Comments

  • #2
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    I'm at the 6,000km mark - allowing for holidays etc. Bog standard btwin triban, 14km each way, 5 days a week.


  • #3
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    20kms each way all year so

    365 - 104 (weekends) - 10 (public holidays) - 30 (holidays) = 221 working days.

    say 215 to allow a few days missed

    so 215 X 40 = 8600kms


  • #4
    monkeyslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭monkeyslayer


    Usually about 6kms each way everyday on my vintage steed, reckon it'd amount to at least 3000kms a year


  • #5
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    2-4km (depending how early I wake up) each way, pretty small fry compared to some others :o


  • #6
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,179 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    40k each day , 5 days a week, rain, hail or shine.

    Our office is moving to the airport so I'll have about 75km each day.


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  • #7
    boardbeer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭boardbeer


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    20kms each way all year
    so 215 X 40 = 8600kms
    As a contractor, I'd reckon on working 230 days per year, so 230 x 52 ~= 12k


  • #8
    boardbeer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭boardbeer


    ted1 wrote: »
    Our office is moving to the airport so I'll have about 75km each day.
    I tried 66 per day for about six months. Come the weekend, I just wanted to lay on the floor, unmoving...


  • #9
    Heisenberg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    Commute 150km per week so on average over 7000 per year on a Trek 2.1.


  • #10
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    46km per day.. 4 days a week.

    48 weeks of the year.

    Total 8,832 km per annum

    That excludes some weekend cycles and a few races.

    Probably hitting close to 10,000km for the year


  • #11
    marvin42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 162 ✭✭marvin42


    I cycle 16 k one way almost each day on a Hybrid and a old Cannondale Super V since four years. Ends in somewhere between 5500 to 6500 km per year.


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  • #12
    fguinan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭fguinan


    52km per day.
    4 days a week.

    Somewhere just over 9k a year on a giant defy
    ☺️


  • #13
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,686 ✭✭✭✭josip


    1500km horizontal,24km vertical per year
    with 10kg of backpack and 18kg of kiddo out the back for company


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