Where are those August numbers?
 

Have we suddenly become shy, or did I miss the monthly mileage post.
For the first month this year I was able to ride during all 4 weeks.
For me a really good total of 413.89 miles

You're sure about the .89 part? :D

Absolutely Sure!! That was the most difficult stretch the entire month!

I would have guessed that 413 miles were uphill, and .89 were downhill. :)

I spent half of the month on vacation on a small island without any roads. About 140 miles total, all commuting and dropping my daughter off at day camp. Do I get extra credit for never riding a bike without a trailer or Trail-A-Bike attached from June 21 to September 4?

Paul

You got it backwards it was .89 uphill and 413 down. ;)

406 and the weather has been terrible we got almost 13" of rain in Aug and its raining again right now.

Since my back recovery, I have consistently been riding 20-25 miles each and every day (sometimes more). But I don't keep exact miles any more. And besides, with any standard error of measurement calculation, just how exact can one be on a bicycle with a computer that can be calibrated to only about the nearest tenth of a mile or so, if one is lucky?

The weather in PA for Aug was pretty nice, almost three weeks without rain so my numbers were pretty good. 808 for the month and 3955 YTD.

We've been having nice weather here, too, in Northern CA. 584 miles, 4245 YTD. I had one short week when my K-Wings were being installed and a general tuneup was performed. I took about the same number of rides as usual, but tried to up the mileage a bit. Instead of 20 - 30 miles, most rides were 25 - 40, with one 50 miler. My usual riding buddies were mostly absent, so many miles were done alone. Except, of course, for the constant thoughts and dreams of the 50+ers!

The argument of significant digits and measuring miles to the 1/100th calls to mind the perfect illustration.

Senior year in engineering school.....mechanics of fluid class.......Dr. W , the professor, is as old and dry as they come......flips a coin every day to determine whether or not to have a pop quiz. The man is rumored to have no sense of humor.

This is 1973. Hand held calculators as a practical tool are new. They can multiply, divide and do square roots, but you can't yet regulate the number of digits it shows. You still had to have a slide rule for the logarithms unless you had $400 of those 1973 dollars for an HP.

Bill N. takes his pop quiz, and includes answers such as 72.68759468 gallons/minute or 15.67938948 feet/second or some such on all of his answers. From a practical standpoint Bill, one of the brighter students, has perfect paper.

However, old Dr. W. marks him wrong on the sixth or seventh digit of each answer, and gives him a grade of 99.567982 for the test. He made his point. And we just thought the man had no sense of humor.

You have to be a little of number nerd to appreciate this story.

A very scary thought indeed! :eek:

August 155
2006 at end of August 2134

I was riding 300+ from April thru July until I pulled a muscle/ligament. It still tightens up
on me and I need to keep it stretched. Trying to take it easy with a lot days off the bike.

I've lost track. I've been riding a lot on a bike with no computer. Probably about 450.579143875284 miles, 2750.2486354841215843215484 for the year.

This brings up a point that has really irked me for a while now, since I am a stickler for 30 digit accuracy with regards to my odometer reading...:(

What effect does the wearing of your front tire have on the circumference of that tire, and how does one calculate that wear...and thus the subsequent reduction of circumference? There must be a mathmatical formula for figuring this out on the road.:)

Say you have what you feel is an accurate circumference for your front tire logged into your computer. Then you ride, say, 5 miles over course asphalt. Now your circumference has been reduced, but my how much? We need to figure in the relative courseness of the asphalt, the make and model of tire, your weight, the bike's weight, the front-to-rear weight bias, and, presuably, the tire pressure you are running.

Which brings up another sticking point...how do we get accurate tire pressures within, say, 10 digit accuracy?:eek:

Anyone?:D

So thats why I'm going faster and farther each month. :(

I think the easiest way to increase your speed and mileage is just to add another magnet on your front spokes...

:D 1460 miles! But if I take the second magnet off it's only 730 miles, and I'm still almost 500 miles behind where I was last year at this time... there's been way too much rain meaning that mowing the grass has taken many more hours than I've wanted it to. In fact, just had a talk with my wife last night about the possibility of moving into a smaller house with less lawn now that the kids are both gone.

486 miles in August and over 1500 since May 15th. Pretty depressing not being able to have my riding partner with me.

I have done a 100 miles on
this contraption since last Saturday!

And that sucker weighs at least 100 lbs!

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335 miles this month. Only 304 to go to reach 1000.

737 miles in August. All into a headwind. ;)

My current bicycle computer measures miles in the 1/1000th. Go figure. But it does make you seem as if you are really going fast, watching that baby whirl around!

Great job Dan!! That had to be a lot of rides!!

For August I turned in 931 miles. Of course that counts being off work and being able to do 50 mile rides three or more times a week.