When do you ride?

[orangeokie]

I work six days a week, getting up at 5:00 am and not getting home 'til 6:30-7:00 pm. My only time to ride is Sunday afternoon.

 

For those with jobs, what is your normal working day/week, and when do you ride?

[richard100t]

I work 5:30am to 4pm 4 or 5 days a week (usually 5). Ten hour shifts suck the best part of the day from you I usually ride around town for a half hour sometime after work for relaxation when its nice out. On the weekends I like a good 100 mile ride after a late breakfast. Maybe this is a little blasphemous to say here lol. I've been thinking about adding a more touring (comfortable) bike to the stable for 100plus mile days. Who has a California Ev here & is it a good low vibe smoooth ride? I love the Rosso in town but it gets old on the highway after a short while. I cant afford it right now anyway but I'd like to hear some honest opinions of the Guzzi cruiser models. I guess if I sold the Rosso I could have one lol but that aint going to happen :!:

[Martin Barrett]

I work shifts, my patern aggregates a 40hr week, but as I do a mix of 9 and 10 hour days it averages out at slightly over 2 days off a week. I do try and do a couple of days extra as overtime a month (5 week pattern (20 really)) one to pay for the Guzzi . I get two weekends off over 5 weeks.

 

I commute on the Guzzi - 13 miles each way.

The odd days for the Round Britain Rally were mid week.

Rallies etc depends on how they fell on my pattern. Both the Erin and the Highland Fling fell on a weekend off, but I took additional days off to travel and do some RBR on route. Next years Erin and German Rally fall on working days so I've booked a fortnight off, I could have made it to work on the Tuesday between them.

 

I managed 9,000 miles this year

[stormsedge]

I am on shore duty at the moment, so workdays are typically Mon-Fri dark to dark. On the weekdays, I'll usually get up about 0430 and check the weather on the news (sometimes the internet to view the radar picture)...if it looks like it won't rain (much), I'll ride to work at least Tue-Thurs as Mon and Fri I swap my uniforms and pt gear out. I usually ride on Sat mornings leaving at first light and return around 1000-1200 to miss the Sat afternoon traffic. On the really cold Saturdays I putz from motorcycle shop to motorcycle shop to see what's new and drink the free coffee. k

[GuzzTim]

I ride to work.. 300 miles a week

 

 

then ride for pleasure on the weekends..

 

 

 

Is there any other way !??

[Admin Jaap]

I'm self employed, when the weather is good and there is no work pressure, I put on the answering machine at 15.00 hrs and let them all kiss my ***! And then there is Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning!

[dlaing]

I ride to work..  300 miles a week

then ride for pleasure on the weekends..

Is there any other way !??     

63797[/snapback]

 

 

Is it sacrilege to say I prefer commuting in my car, all warm, with tunes blasting, saving my bike for what really matters, the weekend!?!

I guess one problem is that the commute is only 7 miles, so the engine barely warms up and carbon builds up.

But somehow, mostly on weekends, I have managed to get over 29K in less than five years (~6000miles/10,000KM per year)

I bought the bike because I wanted to tour and get out of town, but I don't have time and money for that, much.

So, most of the riding has been canyon carving, albeit with huge chicken strips....

My girfriend bought me a pillow that says, "You never see a motorcycle parked outside a pychiatrist's office"

So, I bet GuzzTim has not seen a shrink for many years.

[O2 V11]

I work a 4 x 4 roster, 4 days on 6am-6pm, then 4 days off. If my days off fall through the week I ride between 9am and 3pm, kids at school and the wife is at work. Days off at the weekend I take either the wife or one of the kids with me.

I pick my days and ride purely for pleasure, I have covered a mere 4350 miles in 15 months. I have ridden the 80 km return to work once which I didn't find enjoyable at all.

Rob

[callison]

For a few years, I rode 52 miles each way to work which included 11 miles of minor mountain backroads. That was good for a little over 2000 miles month which I did on a Sport 1100i, the V11 Sport and the California and after an accident, a V65C (ugh). The California is okay, it isn't a sport bike but since it's a milder tune and an entirely different frame, it vibrates considerably less than the V11 Sport. Most miles I've ever done in one day on any of these bikes is 715 for the Sport 1100i, 601 for the V11 Sport and 881 for the California. On none of these bikes could I have done that sort of mileage without some seat help. I use an AirHawk cushion for that purpose. I've only ridden about 5000 miles since my accident 25 months ago and I feel guilty that now that I'm retired - I'm riding even less (75 miles in 3 months across 3 bikes - shameful). That's going to change though. The paperwork to get the rebuilt V11 Sport back onto the street is forthcoming, I'm going to dive into the Sport 1100i and resolve that engine problem and the California is going up for sale and I'm going to add a touring mount to the stable. Either a Breva 1100 or a Falcone 1200 GT.

[grossohc]

I work a 14days at work 14 days at home work pattern, great in summer, not so good in winter, thats when the wife gives me all the decorating / fixing stuff to do round the house. Usually do stuff with the kids at the weekend but when they are in school im off on the bike.

[Ouiji Veck]

I'm self employed and goof off way to much.

BUT... Who ever layed in thier death bed muttering..

"Gee ...I wish I worked a few more days." ?

I ride every weekend..sometimes both days...evenings around home

I get erked on some of these rides (50-150mi) because I don't reach that

nirvana ya get too on a 2 or 3 or 14 day trip to unexplored territory...where

there's not enough tax base to support a high police presence.

Crawling out of my tent to put 50mi on before breakfast, heading down the untraveld

road to "I don't care where".. I live for that. And if i won 300 mil $$, thats what I'd do every day. No glitz and glamour,Limos or gold toilets. Just my Guzzi and my tent...

and my friends

Thats why I feel Jay Lenos' no "biker"

If he was a true "motorcyclist" he'd take his dough....quit that douche bag job..

and go ridding'.

[tikkanen]

I'm working Mon-Fri from 0730 - 16-ish and I commute approximately 100 km a day on the Scura.

Unfortunately Father Frost has announced his arrival and for the last couple of mornings temperatures have been as low as 0 degrees Celcius. I live in a forrest area and the roads are covered with leaves, so it's a dangerous cocktail.

In other words I'm going to hang up my wheels for this season very soon and fire up the ol' Ford Escort 1.1 from 1985.....

 

Søren

[g.forrest]

NOT REALLY HAVING A JOB,AND NOT REALLY WANTING ONE..I AM HUMBLE WITH MY LIVING STANDARD AND SAVE MY DOLLARS FOR RIDING.. DONE THE RIDING TO WORK THING ..OVER THAT.. SO AGOOD RIDE HAS TO BE 300K PLUS. PREFERABLY 1000 K WITH AN OVER NIGHT CAMP, DRINKING ROUND THE CAMP FIRE WITH GOOD PEOPLE.. ISN'T THIS THE PEAK OF A MOTORCYCLISTI'S LIFE. BUT THEN AGAIN A SHORT JAUNT WITH THE PENSION RIDERS, ON A PLEASENT WEDNESDAY, CAN BE VERY REWARDING..

[Skeeve]

the California is going up for sale and I'm going to add a touring mount to the stable. Either a Breva 1100 or a Falcone 1200 GT.

                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

63822[/snapback]

 

Wow! Guzzi is making a 1200cc laydown single and marketing it as a touring mount? Whoda thunk it?

 

[Skeeve]

I ride to work..  300 miles a week

then ride for pleasure on the weekends..

Is there any other way !??     

63797[/snapback]

 

 

But fewer miles - only about 200/wk, & on the commuter (beater bike), not the V11. Riding on weekends has been infrequent (too busy since my accident), but looking forward to getting back to living right now that I'm finally getting caught back up w/ my life!

 

Beware the jealous or inattentive cage driver opening their door at random when lane-splitting...