How many miles a year do you ride?

[Stefan Mikes]

started using Strava.

We know each other Ed more from Strava than from the EBR Forums! It is a real pleasure to see your friend pedalling; it is one of the greatest features of Strava, its social media role. I'm sure you can further improve your stats for 2026 by riding your Creo 2 more! (I also can notice how hilly the area you are riding in is!)

After a long cycling hiatus beginning in 1997, I bought a pedal bike in 2013. Meanwhile, my main ailment related to blood circulation was silently developing, which almost took me off the bike from 2015. I could return to cycling from August 2019 thanks to e-bikes (of course, only pedalling, no throttle). You Ed used MapMyRide and I was recording my rides with Endomondo, which collapsed in November 2020. I was lucky to find SyncMyTracks, an inexpensive phone app that let me transfer all my Endomondo rides to Strava, RideWithGPS and Komoot. Then, I bought my first Wahoo and started recording all my rides with uploads to those three systems (I maintain Strava only).

Here is my ride history since 2013:

I'm 64 this year.

P.S. @Chargeride I made the graph above based on Strava data myself and I need no AI for that

 

[edobici_forza]

We know each other Ed more from Strava than from the EBR Forums! It is a real pleasure to see your friend pedalling; it is one of the greatest features of Strava, its social media role. I'm sure you can further improve your stats for 2026 by riding your Creo 2 more! (I also can notice how hilly the area you are riding in is!)

After a long cycling hiatus beginning in 1997, I bought a pedal bike in 2013. Meanwhile, my main ailment related to blood circulation was silently developing, which almost took me off the bike from 2015. I could return to cycling from August 2019 thanks to e-bikes (of course, only pedalling, no throttle). You Ed used MapMyRide and I was recording my rides with Endomondo, which collapsed in November 2020. I was lucky to find SyncMyTracks, an inexpensive phone app that let me transfer all my Endomondo rides to Strava, RideWithGPS and Komoot. Then, I bought my first Wahoo and started recording all my rides with uploads to those three systems (I maintain Strava only).

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Stefan, yes, I hope to improve. and know I will. But I just want to highlight that we are all so different! I am a purely recreational rider. I know so many others are practical riders who have 15 to 20 miles of daily commutes. so the initial question of yearly mileage will vary greatly. And it applies to both the rider! and the bike!

Yes, to your send point. it is difficult for me to to an an enjoyable ride in my local area that is not without a decent amount of elevation. I have, thankfully, been able to adapt. I am slow. but I have decent endurance. I am 59 and not a jock. and never raced. just love riding. So it is all relative. In my area there are a bunch of hard core riders. I do not know any of them. and they range from 20-65yrs old. I love it. Just have to understand the context

 

[edobici_forza]

This is a separate post to give you the biggest kudos for recovering from your personal physical condition and just being a great bike advocate! You rock Stefan!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

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Stefan, yes, I hope to improve. and know I will. But I just want to highlight that we are all so different! I am a purely recreational rider. I know so many others are practical riders who have 15 to 20 miles of daily commutes. so the initial question of yearly mileage will vary greatly. And it applies to both the rider! and the bike!

Yes, to your send point. it is difficult for me to to an an enjoyable ride in my local area that is not without a decent amount of elevation. I have, thankfully, been able to adapt. I am slow. but I have decent endurance. I am 59 and not a jock. and never raced. just love riding. So it is all relative. In my area there are a bunch of hard core riders. I do not know any of them. and they range from 20-65yrs old. I love it. Just have to understand the context

Just to put my situation in a right perspective:
Majority of my rides are recreational:

• Solo adventure trips
• Riding with a friend or friends (yes, I actively pursued finding riding friends!)
• Riding with a family member
• Organized group rides:
  • Organized by someone else
  • Organized by myself
• Gravel races (paid)
• Vacation rides (solo or with friends)

The other activities come from the fact I conciously got rid of a car:

• Shopping
• Physician, pharmacy and lab visits
• Lunch and coffee rides
• Taking any opportunity to rent an e-bike on my trips abroad

All this is facilitated by the fact I live in a neighbourhood that requires some transportation to get the basic things. The other is I live within a riding (or, a train trip) distance from the country's capital city. Third (and most important) is I actively use social media to find cycling friends and group rides

There was a 2025 activity I am very proud of: I "painted" the map of Warsaw city limits by riding along them As many as three friends could intercept me on the ride and ride together with me on different ride segments! (166 km or over 100 miles over 2 days).

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Only about 2000 km a year. I suppose it’s not bad for a guy who only a few years ago was stuck behind a desk 9 hours a day.

retirement is great, now if I didn’t live in a land where winter can be so darn nasty.

 

[Gionnirocket]

In ten years of riding ebikes I average between 3,000 and 4,000 miles per year. I ride four times per week, sometimes more, some times less. I just enjoy riding without tracking my mileage, my speed, my time, or my altitude.

I concur... I keep loose track of mileage just for maintenance.
That said I'm in the same average.

 

[BlackHand]

I should end up a little over 5200 miles this year. Probably 90% of that commuting, very little in the way of recreational rides the last year or so.

Average over the last 5.5 years looks to be about 3500/yr.

 

[McApple]

About 3,000km this year, from mid-April to the end of September. I am currently riding my exercycle 5-7 days per week; the only change of scenery out the window is in the snow buildup and the amount of ice forming in the river.

 

[PedalUma]

I would guess that I average about 10 miles per day of mostly stuff around town. I seldom do purely recreational rides, maybe five times per year, because I have stuff to do every day. Taking four 2.5 mile rides is more fun and productive in a day than not riding for three days and then doing a 30 mile ride. So, that is about 3,650 miles per year without keeping score. I do ride everyday, even in hail. But I could be like a alcoholic taking to their Doctor and minimizing the actual, given the way I go through tires. If I do not ride it is bad, its like Billie Holiday or Keith Richards not getting a fix. Like Amy Winehouse, I do not want to go to cycling rehab withdrawals. NO NO NO even if it kills me.

 

[fooferdoggie]

The number of rides i really high because every time I go into a store or such, it starts another ride on the upload. But man all that time riding its pretty amzing I can do so much.

 

[PedalUma]

Movement everyday.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Movement everyday.

ya got to tp keep sane and feel good. I don't do well sitting around. all week it's going to be cold and rain and my wife is leaving for a week so raining cold rides.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Just want to tell you guys I am on the first rides this year 2026 despite real winter weather including frost and snow

 

[PedalUma]

It is going to be 50 F and cloudy this morning. I traditionally go on a Jan 1st ride to a hilly park with nice trails. It will be mucky due to rains. Then it will rain more in the afternoon. The photo is of a January First ride of a couple of years ago at that park.

 

[PedalUma]

It was misty rain for my first ride of the year today. And it was a blast. Some of the trails are decomposed granite or gravel, so it was not too muddy.
Edit: This is Helen Putnam Regional Park, Petaluma, the gateway to Chileno Valley and Western Marin roads to Tomales Bay. The date stamp was never set. It is really 1.1.26 at about 11:00 AM. AI cannot see the white discharge wire between the battery and the motor.

 

[harryS]

We had a 12" snowfall and an early start to winter lockdown on the last day of November. We had a brief thaw and got out once last month, In the prior year, we had a dozen December rides. Bummer. It's -10C right now.

Happy New Years to you bikers that can bike.

 

[fooferdoggie]

ya today first ride 25 miles, light rain, and between 39 and 42.