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Offline kawamark

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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2011, 10:15:38 AM »
About 30 feet.  ;)

If I need to go to the office - 11 miles one way on my preferred curvy country road with little to no traffic.

If I need to make on site service calls, I get paid $0.51 per mile. All are within 15 – 20 minutes from home.

After my old job with a daily 50 mile one way interstate commute into Atlanta with stop and go rush hour traffic, I feel blessed.  ;D
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2011, 10:28:11 AM »
Take the cycle (now that it is fixed) from Greenfield to Kenosha for a 37 mile one-way trip.  But as you can guess, sunny days take longer to get home 'cuz I 'get lost' so easy.  :)

75 total round-trip, 5 days a week.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2011, 10:52:39 AM »
64 round trip for me. And  I work everyday and only have every third weekend off.  :(


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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2011, 10:56:27 AM »
right at 90 miles round trip for me.  It's mostly all highway so it's nice and relaxing.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2011, 10:58:46 AM »
~75 miles a day... that's without having to stop-n-shop, which I usually do every other day.  Which reminds me... need to make a list of stuff to pickup.  ::)
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2011, 11:10:26 AM »
I commute 28 miles door to door or 56 miles round trip.  Since my motorcycle gets twice the fuel economy than the minivan and nearly 2.5 times that of the 1999 F-150, I ride as often as I can.  Most of the trip is two lane highway, and there is usually light traffic, so it is relaxing.  There are curves (a rareity for Kansas), although I really don't like riding at night, because the deer are thick.

I purchased the connie for exactly this reason, to commute.  I love the weather protection of the fairing, the great fuel economy, large tank, etc.....

I just wish I could ride it more often to work (have to transport kids to soccer, scouts, school, etc..) so I usually only get to ride one or two days a week during the school year.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2011, 12:20:11 PM »
80 miles round-trip.  I don't touch the highway, and there's lots of lights.  I can crush rocks with my left hand nowadays!  I've recently found another way home, but I'm not sure what it's like during rush hour.  I'm giving it a shot tonight.

I try to ride it as much as possible, but we've had a lot of rain this year--and snow.  I recently realized I was spending almost $400/month in gas on my truck.  Oddly enough that was right about the time I decided it was time to sell it.  Anybody want a 2007 Silverado??
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2011, 04:54:53 PM »
I'm at 79.6 miles round trip every day - which has me filling up every 3 days on this bike.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #28 on: May 16, 2011, 05:09:13 PM »
80 RT, 5-7 days a week, just depends if I'm giving a class or not.  47,000 relatively speaking trouble free miles.

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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #29 on: May 16, 2011, 05:46:38 PM »
160 miles round trip. It changes from job to job and this is a minimum. I go upwards to 250-300 worst case scenario. I've run about 4700 miles so far in 2011.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #30 on: May 16, 2011, 06:25:14 PM »
52 miles round trip from home to office, more if I have to visit any of our power plants. Oh and 51 cents a mile.....

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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #31 on: May 16, 2011, 06:38:34 PM »
100 miles round trip for me.  I run US 52 along the Ohio River up river of Cincinnati.  Lots of cruisers run the route on weekend.  I run it every weekday.


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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #32 on: May 16, 2011, 06:50:22 PM »
Depends on the weather and which way I go. Could be 15 minutes could be 60 minutes love it.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2011, 08:51:56 AM »
Round trip?   20 ft to 20 miles.  Some days work from home - some days in Client's offices downtown. 
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2011, 09:01:23 AM »
142 Round Trip almost all slab  :(.  Only five or six times a month though which allows time for many more miles West (all curves  :D)
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #35 on: May 17, 2011, 10:01:51 AM »
64 miles round trip on the Connie from April to Thanksgiving. (or from after the salt is off and before it is on the roads)  A few more months would be nice but I settle for the snowmobile trail running by my house.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #36 on: May 17, 2011, 01:54:21 PM »
11 km one way by bicycle.
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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #37 on: May 17, 2011, 02:47:31 PM »
6 miles RT   :( 

Can only take the bike on some days as need the truck most of the time. And with that short of distance, hard to even gearing up to ride to work some days.

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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #38 on: May 17, 2011, 02:59:41 PM »
I may have the winning short commute of only 3 miles.  Yeah, I need a 700lbs bike for that.   ;D Often, I don't even get her out of 2nd gear.

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Re: Commuting Distances
« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2011, 03:37:28 PM »
96 miles Akron to the East side of Cleveland.  The primary reason I ordered a C-14, the vrod offers little wind protection as well as a 3.1 gal tank and the spyders offer little wind protection as well.

Before I had the connie (or any bike, for that matter), I used to ride about 90-100 miles from Ravenna to Wickliffe 5 days a week.  The 271/480 merge just about killed me after 1 year of commuting :o But after a move it's now about 75-80 miles from Geneva to Wickliffe.  Maybe I'll see you around sometime Boonedawg. 

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