MyCyclingLog

[BSRU]

13,000km completed for the year, also I have been logging rides to mycyclinglog for two whole years now and it shows I have cycled over 23,000km.
Now to do more cycling in 2014

 

[I like Skol]

I'm actually lowering my target for next year. I started out 2013 wanting to do 10 miles a day (3650 miles) but it must have been some time early in November when I realised I was actually going to pass that quite easily and decided to go for 4k.

The aim for next year will be 3k so I can have less effect on family life. With working 12hr shifts, nights, having two kids and a wife working office hours has meant lots of frantic meal times between her arriving home and me jumping on my bike for the commute. Driving gives around 15-20 minutes back and that is valuable time.

Of course, I might actually do more than the previous year, like I have done for the last 3 years on the trot

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

To you guys who have done over 8000 miles, how many years do you get out of a set of wheels? And what wheels have you got?

The reason I'm asking is that next year I'll have to do at least 8000 miles as I've sold my car, so I'll have no option now my wife has nearly finished her degree and will be working from March onwards. I'm just wondering if my new set of Planet X el cheapo wheels will last the year.

 

[HLaB]

@bromptonfb That's a how long is a piece of string question; it depends on terrain,exposure,maintenance, rider weight, etc. FWIW my winter wheels (previously 2012 all year wheels) are planet x (Model B's), they've been exposed to the harsh Scottish winters and have currently done 60miles short of 9,000miles (7336miles, March 2012-March, 2013 and currently 1606miles, Nov/Dec 13)

 

[Alien8]

On my main commuter, so year round all weather riding, I get about 15/20k-miles from the rims before rebuilding. I use basic rims - currently Rigida Flyers. I choose my commute routes for minimal start/stopping so I guess this helps minimise rim wear from braking (and a fixed-wheel probably also helps). I replace the cartridge bearings about yearly but I find this can be quite variable - especially on the rear. Again, I use basic 6000-2RS bearings which are quite exposed in Novatec-like track hubs.

So, finger in the air, look after your wheels and hope to get one to two years from them before replacing something.

 

[SWSteve]

Just uploaded today's ride... I have averaged 15 mph this year over the 3000 miles I have covered. So happy with my performance, wouldn't have expected it when I got a bike in January

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'm sure you could set that up

I just might

 

[Supersuperleeds]

To you guys who have done over 8000 miles, how many years do you get out of a set of wheels? And what wheels have you got?

The reason I'm asking is that next year I'll have to do at least 8000 miles as I've sold my car, so I'll have no option now my wife has nearly finished her degree and will be working from March onwards. I'm just wondering if my new set of Planet X el cheapo wheels will last the year.

Rather than sets of wheels, the question should be how many bikes. There is no way I could have done the miles I have done on one bike.

Back to wheels. My main bike is a Sirrus Elite (with disc brakes) I have done just shy of 8,000 on it this year and am already on the second set of wheels, I knackered the stock wheels when I hit a big pothole.

My Felt is on two sets of wheels, one with normal tyres, the other with ice tyres. Normal tyres/wheels now retired due to acquisition of the Sirrus.

My road bike is only 2,500 miles old and still on the stock wheels

So even though I do a bit more than your target, I am spreading it over 3 sets of wheels (if I don't change any in the year)

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Cheers guys, well they arrived and they're true and spoke tension sounds even when plucked. They're Shimano Deore hubs so should be good for a year and at £129 a set that'll do me - they're disc brakes so the wheels will probably last as long as the bearing races.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Last week or so of fairly constant gales and rain/sleet/snow, I need 260km to hit my 10k target, so with only two days it looks unlikely, considering the forecast. Anyways, I can only try.....Or I could steal last years excess km and add it on to this ???

 

[DCLane]

Made my target yesterday, but still hoping to add to it.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

9820km for the year, at 28 km/h ave, 349 hrs in the saddle, thats over two weeks on a bike !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Finished on 15,520 miles for the year

 

[derrick]

Just short of my second target, will have to try harder next year.

 

[eck]

A couple of days off, a combination of weather and CBA, has left me with 20263 slow km, so that will have to do. I didn't have any real target, but I'm happy enough with a monthly 1000 mile average.