Living Car Free - Lifetime Mileage

This is already posted in foo as a pole

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=534191

What is your lifetime mileage on the bike? Are you fortunate enough to have your bike mileage to surpass your car mileage?

I have no idea what my car km totals are. I've never bothered to keep track.

But my (outside, not including anything I've done on a trainer or stat bike) cycling total from April 29, 1990 to April 23, 2009 (the time period I've been keeping track of cycling) is:

122,730.9 km (76,261.5 miles)


I've been cycling since 1973, but I don't have any stats from the period of time from 1973 to 1990.

I know it's not a lot, but I had a bit of a slow start, and I haven't been cycling nearly as much as I'd like over the past 4 years.

250,750 Logged Bike Miles
YouTube - 250,731 Bicycle Miles

Bicycling for 57 years, driving for 46; zero logged miles.

not sure. since i started road biking in about 2004, i'd guesstimate about 5k miles per year, so that's about 20k so far?

since i don't drive anymore (not since 8 years ago), i'm hoping that my bike mileage will soon eclipse car mileage, if it hasn't already.

What is your lifetime mileage on the bike? Are you fortunate enough to have your bike mileage to surpass your car mileage?

My current car has 1013 miles on it. In fact, I passed the 1000-mile barrier this morning. My Forge has about 365 miles, and my Coda has about 565 miles.

My lifetime car miles probably are well in excess of 200k, possibly well in excess of 300k. (it's been a while since I did the math) It's unlikely that I could ever bring my bike mileage over that total, even if I never travel another inch in a car again.

Small town living is such *fun*.

Well, considering that my lifetime car mileage (as a driver) is zero...

Car mileage = too much... probably a gazillion miles
Bike mileage = not enough... less than 30,000 miles.
Walking mileage = a bunch... probably > 30K.

As you can see, like ILTB, my logging skills are weak.

I'd estimate my lifetime bike mileage is around 10,000 miles, car mileage around 300,000 miles.

Bike: just north of 30k
Aircraft: 150k
Car: 1/2 million +
Boat: 200 miles
Train: 500 miles
Foot: I took a 2k+ walk once

About 30,000 miles in 7 years of cycling. That's about 20 times my driving mileage in that period. but my lifetime driving average would b much higher, of course.

This is a total ballpark figure.

Car: ~70,000
Bike: ~5,000

Ballpark guesses:

Car: ~50,000 miles? I think this is about right, since I've only owned one car and that's about how many miles I put on it.

Biking: ~3,000 miles. About 2,000 miles in the last 6 months since I ditched the car. Before that I didn't have an odometer. I didn't ride as much, though, so I think 3,000 lifetime miles is fair, if a little conservative.

At least 50,000 here's the estimate http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/534191-What-s-your-lifetime-mileage?p=13399124&viewfull=1#post13399124

I have no idea of my car mileage, but since I'm primarily a commuter it must be lower than average. I ride my bike so much that I actually have to think a little when I get in the car.:twitchy:

Driving > 350,000 miles
Riding > 125,000 miles
Walking, running > 75,000 miles

What is your lifetime mileage on the bike? Are you fortunate enough to have your bike mileage to surpass your car mileage?

Why is it fortunate?

I have no idea of what either mileage is. But knowledge of the mileage doesn't change anything.

77,646.2 from 1989 through today.
These are only the miles that I was able to keep track of. There are 4 or so years where I can't find my logs.

Why is it fortunate?


I guess because it's more fun to ride a bike than to drive a car.

Unfortunately I have to log my driving miles for tax purposes...too damned many! Currently averaging nearly 50,000 miles year.

I don't log bicycle miles, just like I don't log how many beers I enjoy ;) But based on a typical month of meandering around and such, probably in the 2,000 mile a year range. When I was living car free it was more like 7,000 a year.

Aaron :)

I still don't log bicycle miles. Too much work.

But I roughly estimate I'm over 30,000 miles since I took up cycling 7 years ago.

I took up bicycling as my main form of local transportation in 2004. Since then, I've logged about 4,000-5,000 miles/year on the bike, about 500 miles/year by car, about 600-700 miles/year on foot, and about 10,000 miles/year by air (so much for my otherwise promising carbon footprint).

I estimated that when I bought my first car, that my bicycles had about 50,000 on them. But that was decades ago. I have no idea of what the figures are now. Though my cars tend to die of neglect, not being driven. I've put about 50 miles on my current car in the past 6 years.

I currently ride my bike a little over 1,000 miles per year, which comes out to over 10,000 miles in the last 10 years. As I recently drove to NC this spring for a wedding I'm certain I have driven further than I have ridden. Considering that as a kid I grew up in rural America and thus spent endless hours in cars and school buses, I'm sure I have 750,000 to 1,000,000 vehicle miles logged in my life.

However, on a normal week I ride my bicycle around 20 miles between commuting and errands, while I do not use motorized transportation at all.

Perhaps a better way to phrase the question would be time spent on a bike versus time spent in a car or plane (since a couple days on a jet can easily add up to more than a year of regular bicycle riding). In that regard, I would say in the last 3 years of my life, I have easily spent more transportation hours on foot or on a bike, than I have in a motorized vehicle or any sort.

My cycling mileage passed my car mileage back in college, over three decades ago. I haven't actually logged my miles in a couple of decades, but estimate my cycling miles are somewhere in the quarter-million area.

I've been riding the same bike for 33 years,and 1 other one before that.I average about 8000-10,000 miles a years now and it's only 7 miles to work and back now.It used to be 42 miles RT.........I don't really know for sure but it's a big number.

My bicycle miles far surpass my driving miles.

How long does it take to put 10,000 miles on a car?......1/4 mile at a time?

I've been around a block or two. I've driven around a third of a million miles in commercial trucks, about half that distance in passenger vehicles and just about the sum of those two on my bikes. Those decades with the fifty mile round-trip commute that was often followed by another forty mile joy-ride and a couple of hundred miles on the weekend caused my cycling miles to be a bit outrageous.

Don't ask about my lifetime ice cream consumption. I'm probably on PETA's most wanted list.

I've been around a block or two. I've driven around a third of a million miles in commercial trucks, about half that distance in passenger vehicles and just about the sum of those two on my bikes. Those decades with the fifty mile round-trip commute that was often followed by another forty mile joy-ride and a couple of hundred miles on the weekend caused my cycling miles to be a bit outrageous.

Don't ask about my lifetime ice cream consumption. I'm probably on PETA's most wanted list.

That's impressive! Some of us everyday cyclists really rack up the miles.

Even with only an eight mile RT commute, and shopping real close to home, I managed to ride about 5,000 miles in a normal year. That's more miles than some amateur road racers tide with all their training. But, since I ride 365 days a year, it's less than 15 miles a day--a distance just about anybody could manage quite easily.