Time to close the books.

[HobbesOnTour]

I don't normally do this but since I'm a bit bored.....

239 rides, 10208km travelled and 124,721 meters climbed.
Of those, 164 rides were fully loaded, covering 8496 km and 115,517 meters gained.

I'm damn lucky and travelled from México to Colombia with a detour (and some riding) to Austin, TX for a vaccine. That's 8 countries in all.

I broke the bike necessitating a local welder to get me back on the road, got bitten by a dog and needed rabies shots to keep me on the road and got robbed at gunpoint.

I conquered the Alto de Letras (longest climb in the world?) by accident, the Trampoline of Death (one of the most dangerous roads in the world) on purpose and can count on one hand the number of times I wasn't enjoying myself (most of those in Panamá).

I got a Police escort into the Capital of Honduras, took the backroads in Nicaragua and one night had a National Park all to myself in Guatemala.

All this on a basic Trek 800 Sport MTB that has 21 gears and more years on the clock than that.

I'm posting this not to brag but to say that if I can do this then most people can do it too. When I didn't feel like cycling I told myself it was practice for "the big one". (As it turns out cycling in NL is not great practice for the Andes ). I'm not particularly fit, have a woeful sense of direction and an aversion to detailed planning.

What the numbers don't show are the smiles per mile. They're off the scale.

Here's hoping 2022 gives us all lots of smiles per mile wherever they may be.

 

[Chap sur le velo]

It's taken 63 years but this year is the first time I've ridden every month and thus at last I consider myself a cyclist.

4195 kms on Strava (and maybe 250 extra on local trips). Longest ride 130km.

Really enjoyed it. Hope to do a ride of 100miles and possibly 200kms in 2022 but doubt the total will be much more, if at all.

 

[Brandane]

How could you possibly know who records what on Strava, so you are actually annoyed at something you made up in your own head and projected onto others!

Talking of making stuff up in your own head; what exactly makes you think I'm annoyed?
I think the word I used was "amazes".
It was an observation, nothing more. And has been explained by others in a perfectly civil manner.

 

[Sniper68]

Reading through this thread, it amazes me the number of cyclists who must be recording every single ride on Strava, Garmin, or whatever. Seriously? Does no-one else just jump on their bike for a casual ride without switching on a GPS? To visit people not very far away? Or go to the shops? Post a letter?

No would be the answer to that.
I use my bike(s) for fun/exercise/socialising/escape.I can't recall using for utility cycling since the 1970s when I was a child!

 

[palinurus]

4007 miles / 6449 km - almost all commuting (plus some unrecorded miles on Beryl bikes and shopping on the Elephant Bike)

 

[jay clock]

6000km almost exactly. Made up of 8.5km daily commute (I work from home so this is cycling from home to my home office), weekly Sunday 2 hr ride, a few 26km rides each month on local loop, plus the King Alfred's Way and a tour of the Welsh Borders.

Very happy with this amount. In some years when I did an Ironman I actually did less it appears

 

[LarryDuff]

2545 miles which was 455 miles short of what I wanted.

 

[mustang1]

4000km

 

[neil_merseyside]

I've had my biggest year since records began (2016) and my total mileage was 6245 miles (10050km) I was hoping to get to 10,000km and manged that, though I see if I'd ridden just another 10km more I'd have exceeded my previous best year (2020) by 10% .
I recorded 102 rides so 61.2 average distance, 13.1mph average speed, 476hrs of riding, mostl notably I rode 8 x 100+milers (2 cyclechat rides), my shortest ride was just 27m. 2021 Edington number 56 (lifetime is 67).

 

[Chislenko]

I set myself modest targets in 2021 and achieved both in the penultimate week of December.

3000 miles on the bike
500 miles of running.

I had the last week off!!

 

[Willd]

2,486 miles with 89,162ft of climbing, not very hilly round here when you work it out per mile

 

[Alex321]

2,486 miles with 89,162ft of climbing, not very hilly round here when you work it out per mile

It isn't is it?

I had less than twice your miles, but more than 3 times your climbing

And Vale of Glamorgan is one of the less hilly bits of South Wales.

[EDIT] this made me think, and go back through the thread. My climbing averaged 69.7 ft/mile over the last year. Of all the people who have posted elevation as well as miles in this thread, that is actually the highest value, with the next highest being @HobbesOnTour whose average (after converting to miles & feet) was 64.51 ft/mile.

That really surprises me. I had always thought my climbing was a fair bit lower than the average among regular cyclists.

 

[Fredo76]

1394 miles, and enjoyed every one. Except for the dog-bite mile.



Best 2022 to everyone!

 

[alex_cycles]

[EDIT] this made me think, and go back through the thread. My climbing averaged 69.7 ft/mile over the last year. Of all the people who have posted elevation as well as miles in this thread, that is actually the highest value, with the next highest being @HobbesOnTour whose average (after converting to miles & feet) was 64.51 ft/mile.

That really surprises me. I had always thought my climbing was a fair bit lower than the average among regular cyclists.

I didn't publish ascent figures but mine was 76,130m (249770 ft) in 7484 miles = 33.4 ft/mile, so less than half your rate.

 

[ianrauk]

I didn't publish ascent figures but mine was 76,130m (249770 ft) in 7484 miles = 33.4 ft/mile, so less than half your rate.

Very similar to my figures 268412ft in 8085 miles = 33.19 ft/mile