madurotiger

Curious how many you ride. Morning/afternoon/evening?

RR3

This week will be 425 miles. (5 rides with one 252 mile ride and one sort of long ride on Sunday)

Previous week was only 175 (4 rides with on long one)

Week before that was 450.

Next week will be 200 and then around 500.

Every two weeks I have been doing a 400K building to a 600k in a few weeks.

This is on a touring bike with 32mm tires with lots of gears and lights and bags.....not quite a hybrid but similar.

practical

I aspire to ride 100 miles a week. Sometimes I can, but sometimes work, weather and other things prevent me from doing that. I envy people who have organized their lives so that they can ride everyday. My dream is to retire to a place with better weather, fewer hills and an abundance of bike lanes, bike paths and quiet roads. Plus, it would be great to have a job that required me to be on my bike everyday. If anyone knows of such opportunities, please let me know.

steve_cay

I do around 75 miles per week. I try and go every day weather permitting, but where I live it rains half the time. Also the biking season is only 6 months in the north. I am not hardcore enegh to bike in rain, cold, and snow!

Reynolds 

75 per week on my hybrid, but I ride other bikes too. Day or night, I have a hub dynamo.

mrodgers

I try to ride 50 miles a week. An hour exercise after work is what I seek to do. Unfortunately I have only gotten out once back in April as I've been battling car troubles since March. Been trying to get work done for March inspection and it's still not done. Finally got in the shop and got the work all done just for him to say he ran out of inspection stickers. This is really eating into my ride time because my choice spot to ride starts out at a trail head in a very small town that has a police officer. Thus, he is guaranteed to see me with an out of inspection sticker.

Between needing to stay and work overtime yet leaving at my scheduled time to race to the shop within an hour before my wife has to leave for work, and have her pick me up only for the shop to tell me an outrageous cost for parts, reschedule, sneak to the salvage yard to get used parts without seeing any state police, getting rescheduled again, etc, I haven't found time to get on the bike at all.

jskash

I try to ride at least 100 miles per week. I ride every day during the week early in the morning well before the sun comes up.On the weekends, I a usually on the bike by 6:00 AM.

george25923

I started riding again last May after a 20 year layoff and I'm riding 3-4 days a week, 40-50 miles each. Longest ride was 64 miles, about 6 hrs. Riding a Trek Shift 3 comfort bike. Looking to get a hybrid to see is I can increase my average speed above the 10 mi/hr. I live in FL and its HOT so all rides start early in the morning. Cooler, less traffic just nicer. I did ride 4000 miles from last May to April this year.
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badger1

Here on Bike Forums this is a bit like asking about "average speed". So, the question is: do you want answers in "Bike Forums Miles" or "real/actual miles". You are almost certain to get the former.

My response: "take whatever the highest claimed 'weekly mileage' is, wherever you find it here on Bike Forums, and add 5 miles/per week. That's my "average"." It's a bit like 'average speed'; if you survey such threads/posts on here, you would think that this forum is populated by mute, inglorious 'undiscovered World-Tour level pros' -- persons whose "average speeds" would appear to exceed those of experienced professional road racers racing in a 150+ member peloton of equally genetically-gifted and highly-trained cyclists over a distance of 150 to 250 kms.

In other words, meaningless.

PedalingWalrus

about 150 per week. 28 miles round trip for my daily commute, lunch break bike ride to eat and some miles over the weekend.

oot

The aim is 100 km a week.I manage to achieve that about every 3rd week on my Dual Sport.I always get in at least 60 km/week year round.

TakingMyTime

Usually 25 - 35 but then again I'm old, lol. When summer comes around and the days are really nice that may jump up to 45-50. This is only weekend riding though. If I didn't have to work for a living and as much as I enjoy riding my guess is that it would jump up to 100 - 150 per week. 20 miles a day would be my goal. Mostly for fitness reasons.

rodentcloister

Then I'll say my weekly mileage is 80, because in real life it's 75.

BugDude

I average between 80-100 miles per week on a Giant Sedona DX hybrid. I typically get up at 5:30 am and ride.

mrodgers

I would get a lot more riding in if I could do that. I'm up at 4:50 to go to work...

I love getting up at 5:30-6:00 on the weekends to ride. I can get up and ride 25 miles and be home and the girls are still sleeping.

BugDude

It's a great time to ride. I live in FL, so I can get it in before it gets real hot and don't have to deal with sunscreen. The only problem I've had is deer. I've come so dang close to hitting deer several times. Scared the crap out of me. They're still milling around until the sun comes up and they'll dart right out in front of you out of nowhere.

Morning rides are good too because they get you going for the rest of the day. I have early meetings some mornings and have to go in the afternoon or evening, but I prefer mornings. If I couldn't do it then, I'm sure I would not ride as much as I do. If I had to get up as early as you for work, there's no way I could ride in the mornings.

WDH74

Until now I've barely gotten in one or two rides a week - if I'm lucky I get in a 16 miler after work once a week, and maybe a 20 on Sunday. The weather's just been bad enough that I haven't been able to get out. Hopefully, I can get this up to 50 or so a week when the weather stabilizes.

BugDude

Living in Florida another reason to ride early in the morning is through the summer we typically will get daily afternoon rain showers from the sea breeze pushing moisture inland. The clouds stack up about 10 miles in along the sea breeze boundary and we get rain. Mornings are usually OK.

badger1

There ... you've got it! That's the Bike Forums spirit! 80 is awfully low, though; sure you might not want to double that?

mrodgers

I'm in PA. I know all about deer, LOL.

Morning rides are good too because they get you going for the rest of the day. I have early meetings some mornings and have to go in the afternoon or evening, but I prefer mornings. If I couldn't do it then, I'm sure I would not ride as much as I do. If I had to get up as early as you for work, there's no way I could ride in the mornings.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, getting up before 5 for work sucks. My "schedule" is 7-3, so it's great getting out of work at 3. I'm hourly but don't follow a punch clock so I go in when I want and leave when I want as long as I'm there at least around the 7-3 shift. I try to be in and started by 6. I only have 10 miles thus far on the bike from a warm day early April because I got slammed with orders. So, I've been working til 5-6 in the evening. With it getting hot and humid at work, it takes a toll on wanting to ride after 10-12 hours.

2 air conditioners in the control room office with four 6 foot ventilation fans in the walls right outside of the control room door kept the control room down to 85° on the days it was -25 outside this past winter to give you an indication on how hot and humid it is. It's hot in the winter let alone when it starts to get into the 70's outside and the humidity starts to get up to 100% as it has been the past 2 weeks.

BugDude

I'm in the Tampa Bay area...August and September the heat and humidity here are breath taking. I keep telling myself I'll adjust.

Striper4

Riding a 2014 Trek Dual Sport 8.5, and riding 100 miles per week or more depending on work schedule. Ride mostly pavement and average 17-18 mph during my 20-25 mile rides. Looking to go with a more of a Hybrid/Road tire like the Bontrager Aw1 in a 32mm wide. I am on the stock LT3 Bontrager Tire now and looking for more speed but do not want to go with an all slick tire.
Right now its between the Bontrager AW1 and the Serfas Drifter both in 32 mm wide. Any opinions or experience with either ?

J708

i do no more than 60 miles per week. I would love to do more but my mild knee effusion does not allow me to ride as I would like to

mrodgers

Took the wife and kids to Disney in 2010. Record breaking highs for beginning of June in Orlando. About 65° if that when we left PA at 3 am. I stopped for gas in Columbia, SC and nearly choked when I got out of the car. I poked my head back in and looked at the temp, 103°. That was the coldest we saw for the remainder of the week.

As we sat on the Disney bus one afternoon escaping the 107° heat to go back to the swimming pool, my kids and wife looked like they were going to die. Wifey asked me how I was handling the heat so well. Told her it's a lot cooler than where I'd be in PA if we weren't on vacation in Orlando.

BugDude

It gets a lot hotter in Orlando than it does here. We're 7 miles from the ocean and we get the sea breeze all the time. I've never seen it above 98* here, and even then we had a breeze. In the summer we get an afternoon shower every day that cools things down a bit. Part of living near the gulf coast. We drive to Disney in the winter when it's cool here and I about roast over there.