Bill - interesting to know the numbers, thanks! I also haven't been keeping close track until the past few years, but started before I got a Riv so I know I've got good numbers on those. My Hillborne just clicked over 4000 km on my last ride on it, which might be my highest mileage on one bike to date (had a Soma that might beat it if I had kept track), and I'm just a few km's away from 2000 on the Bombadil now--which is interesting, as I've only been riding it since December, and I had a Clem H for a full year that I only racked 1100 km on!
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:05 PM Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jason asked about the mileage on my Hillborne > > I've only been logging mileage on Strava since 2014, and only got really > obsessive about logging every single ride since 2017. I have a total of > ~19,000 miles on Strava, spread over a total of 22 bikes. The Hillborne > has the most documented Strava mileage at 1760. I've got 10 different > bikes over 1000 miles on Strava. > > Pre-Strava, before I was logging miles at all, perhaps I rode the > Hillborne another 1500 miles when it was part of a smaller stable. So > maybe 3000 miles total on this bike. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 11:08:13 AM UTC-7 Jason Fuller wrote: > >> Very nice Bill, cheers for the story and wow at 16 bikes - it is >> heartening to read that even with that collection it's the Hillborne that >> would outlast them all - I feel the same about mine, though I've only had >> it two years! Any idea as to what its mileage would be? It does sound >> like the perfect situation, having it at the office - it's kind of like you >> do just have one bike when you're there, and supports your claim that it >> would be The One. >> >> I wonder how many bikes I'd have if space wasn't such a restriction for >> me... >> >> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 10:11:01 UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >>> I've admittedly got a huge stable of bikes. It has "swole" to fully 16 >>> bikes at the moment. I'm really proud of the fact that all of them are >>> dialed and that I ride them all. As a result, even though I put down a >>> decent amount of mileage, none of my bikes has been ridden an epic amount. >>> >>> The bike I've owned the longest and ridden the most is my 56cm Rivendell >>> Sam Hillborne. I bought it initially in December of 2009. My work >>> situation recently changed and has me travelling to Wayne County Michigan >>> once a month, for at least a week at a time. As an investment in my own >>> quality of life away from home, I shipped out my Hillborne, which now lives >>> in my office. At first it seemed like exile, but now I realize it's a >>> position of honor. Here on the west edge of the eastern time zone, it >>> stays light until 9PM or later, so there's a ton of time to get riding in, >>> and when the choices are watching TV in a hotel room or going on a ride, >>> it's been quite easy to put quite a few miles in. When you have only one >>> bike, the choice is "ride or don't ride". There's no fretting over >>> wear-leveling the whole stable. Over this past weekend I made a longer >>> trek out into Washtenaw County to visit Ann Arbor. It's shocking how >>> quickly the miles peel away when there are no hills to speak of. >>> >>> My Sam Hillborne is freaking perfect, and there is no question in my >>> mind that if I had to downsize from 16 bikes to 1, the Hillborne would be >>> the one I'd keep. Here's a few shots of my endeavors to increase my >>> footprint in Wayne County. >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51184956010 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183817561 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183880066 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183881196 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51184958840 >>> >>> Bill Lindsay >>> El Cerrito, CA (but sometimes Livonia, MI) >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/V6aKHi2yoHM/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c59efae8-4c91-4a7f-8af1-6f4ad2ba3726n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c59efae8-4c91-4a7f-8af1-6f4ad2ba3726n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGBpHncyZMK%3DT-_iL9VF-F76DcQt5k0sRmhvH6A1WFnANfxVyg%40mail.gmail.com.
