How much do you ride?

**noobi** · 4th August 2009, 21:28

half as much as i should like, but probably twice as much as i deserve

**Jantar** · 4th August 2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by tommorth

yeah dirt bikes only road bikes don't count but coments from roadys welcome

I don't have a dirt bike, only a couple of road bikes. But it appears I've done more off road riding on my road bikes than many of you on your dirt bikes.

**barty5** · 4th August 2009, 21:33

Originally Posted by tommorth

come on I'm bored and surely you have an idea must to for all your oil changes

its a worry Im only just ahead of cheese by 2hours

well i dont pay for the oil ELF give it to me so i just change it every second ride as a general rule. But at a guess im on the 3rd pack and there is 1 change left in it so that is 11 changes which is 22 rides if i didnt miss one or two out.

**buffstar** · 4th August 2009, 21:38

"upgraded" my bike in November..... from a 230-250, bike had 30 odd hrs on it when 'new' and now sitting at about 75 - not all of that has been riding as such, some in the shop, some fkn around getting it set up for me.

Lucky girl, big kids at school, little kid at home based care two days a week, try to get out every Wed in between drop offs and pick ups of said kids, and live 10 min from the sandpit........ sounds pretty good really - dosnt really factor in all the working my ass off around getting out to ride

heh heh heh

**cheese** · 4th August 2009, 22:04

Originally Posted by tommorth

its a worry Im only just ahead of cheese by 2hours

What's your excuse? I've been in China 2 months of this year.

Normally I get out every second weekend, but work seems to taking over my life......

**Reckless** · 4th August 2009, 22:31

37.5 hours for me! Need to get out more I reckon!

**Reckless** · 4th August 2009, 22:38

Few road bikers in there I think as DIRT biking isn't in the title and they didn't read the post. Sarge or Dangerousbastard for instance doesn't list an MX or enduro bike and they've never posted on here, But I could be wrong???

Originally Posted by Jantar

I don't have a dirt bike, only a couple of road bikes. But it appears I've done more off road riding on my road bikes than many of you on your dirt bikes.

Not sure if hours cruising gravel roads is quite the same as a hard out forest or MX ride there jantar. I certainly couldn't do 6 or 8 hours in a day enduro but I could adventure riding.

**tommorth** · 4th August 2009, 22:54

Originally Posted by cheese

What's your excuse? I've been in China 2 months of this year.

Normally I get out every second weekend, but work seems to taking over my life......

the two month it took me to fix my crank seal will do for an excuse for now

the two days of the weekend seem to disapear pretty quick on days usually stuff around the house fixing somthing getting crap from the shop etc leaves one day to do fun stuff and there are other things to do
want to ride more though

**Jantar** · 4th August 2009, 22:55

Originally Posted by Reckless

...Not sure if hours cruising gravel roads is quite the same as a hard out forest or MX ride there jantar. I certainly couldn't do 6 or 8 hours in a day enduro but I could adventure riding.

That doesn't include gravel roads, or it would be over 60 hours. I have only included actual offroad time. ie riding over the Dunstan range, or climbing Cairnmuir, etc.

And no, there is no mx, enduro or any other competition type time included. I gave up that type of riding over 25 years ago.

**SpikedPunch** · 5th August 2009, 07:58

No idea how many hrs, out every weekend (except when my bikes broken

) and more often over summer holidays. Done a couple of two day rides this year too.

**cheese** · 5th August 2009, 08:05

LOL I think for you spike, you should give how many hours you've spent kicking your bike over.

**IIIRII** · 5th August 2009, 12:26

Yes, well if I could remember what hrs were on the bike when I bought it, I could tell you.
We were talking about this the other day, would have to be in excess of 50 for the last yr.
But remember we are noobs and need to ride twice as oftern to get half as good as someone who has riden twice as long for half the time ....

LOL