1200 miles on average!

[yjleesvrr]

There is an article on Motorcyle Online where a DOT stat is stated. It is that the average American motorcyclist rides 1200 miles per year.

I've ridden this distance in two days more times than I can count. I'm sure some of you fellow Roadsterites have done this in one day.

Why people buy motorcycles if they ride so little is beyond me.

[Boxer]

YES! Considering the purchase, insurance, etc. it seems it would be much cheaper to rent one occasionally.

[wncbmw]

When you trailer your bike on trips once or twice a year, it is easy to keep the mileage down!

[Capt. Blackadder]

Pathetic... but then again, how far could it be to the neighborhood bar? It's Harley... um, hardly chinese algebra.

[ebiker]

YES! Considering the purchase, insurance, etc. it seems it would be much cheaper to rent one occasionally.

The Feds (NHTSA) use vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to correlate our fatality/accident rate each year. NHTSA's way of gathering motorcycle VMT is faulty, read on............

http://www.mrf.org/articles/2005/05NR21 ... dakota.htm

With rising oil prices pushing up record motorcycle sales, it's hard to believe we don't ride our machines! Of course some publications will print anything furnished to them by the NHTSA.

Ebiker, Arizona.

[houndog]

I rode my bike to the Trailer show.
Tommy

[R4R&R]

Obviously the poll didn't include the true riders - they were out riding!

[Beemeridian]

65

[wncbmw]

I would find it hard to justify the bike from a pure ecomonic standpoint. I just bought my youngest son a used Honda Civic with a 5-speed that will get about the same mileage as my bike, (maybe more if I am having a good time on the bike!) with less maintenanace costs.

I prefer to refer to the bike as my wife does. The Metal Mistress!

It is probably cheaper to maintain than a flesh and blood one!

Besides, I have skipped the whole mid-life crisis thing because the bike has prevented me from growing up completely anyway.

[Beemeridian]

67

[JCsman]

I prefer to refer to the bike as my wife does. The Metal Mistress!

It is probably cheaper to maintain than a flesh and blood one!

Vann! You've given me a whole new answer when people ask, "Aren't those things are dangerous?"

I can guarentee my "metal mistress" is safer than being caught with a flesh and blood one!

Ain't no road rash comparable to the fury of a cheated-on redhead. Judy thinks John Wayne Bobbit got off easy!

[The Kurch Man]

There is an article on Motorcyle Online where a DOT stat is stated. It is that the average American motorcyclist rides 1200 miles per year.

I've ridden this distance in two days more times than I can count. I'm sure some of you fellow Roadsterites have done this in one day.

Why people buy motorcycles if they ride so little is beyond me.

I was talking to the local PD (they have two HDs for patrol) and they said they put 'as much as' 1000 miles per year on the bikes. When I mentioned this to a local HD shop, he said they take them back from cities with as little as 500 miles on them. I am confused ... a patrol bike patroling the streets with that mileage? Anyway, strange but true.