Personal Mileage Goal

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Dec 4, 2011 | 02:55 AM
  #1  
Between my first 2 bike, I only put around 11,000 miles on them in nearly 4 years. I decided when I bought the Street Glide that I was going to have a goal of 10,000 miles in the first year of ownership. Well... I bought her on March 25th Road her until June 10th and put 3414 miles on her. Shipped her to Italy and was back on the road September 6th. I am now over 9400 miles. Not too bad for 6 months of riding..... I guess I will meet my goal with easy. I now want to get to 10,000 before I head to VA for Christmas. If I can get her fixed, I can meet that goal.
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Dec 4, 2011 | 03:38 AM
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Wish you well on your Goal usually do a little more than that here .. One of the Joys of Being Retired ...
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Dec 4, 2011 | 04:12 AM
  #3  
I don't have a set goal, I just try to ride as much as I can. I was averaging just over 12k per year until the last two, hope to pick that up again, and maybe more.
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Dec 4, 2011 | 04:37 AM
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Quote: Wish you well on your Goal usually do a little more than that here .. One of the Joys of Being Retired ...
Being retired and living in Florida
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Dec 4, 2011 | 05:23 AM
  #5  
I keep wishing my bikes didn't have so many miles. The repairs and maintenance go up. Especially I've noticed around 65,000 miles a lot of thing start to break.
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Dec 4, 2011 | 05:51 AM
  #6  
Lots of Harleys around with 100K Plus Even some with 200K Plus ..
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Dec 4, 2011 | 07:03 AM
  #7  
When I got my first bagger, I had planned on 20k, did 18k the first year. 13k the second year.
Traded to a newer one and only rode about 8k. Then traded up one year to an 09 last April. So far, 11k on this one.

It has been mostly a problem of money for me to put more miles on it. I ride to work if I don't need to make service calls or go down dirt paths that day. I've had to ride those dirt paths though.

Where I did most of the miles is weekend 1500 mile trips that I can no longer afford to make.
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Dec 4, 2011 | 02:06 PM
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Quote: Being retired and living in Florida
Good luck I an averaging around 30000 a year
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Dec 4, 2011 | 03:14 PM
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10,000 is a great goal. I would love to put some miles down riding in Italy. I am going there next summer it looks like, but not sure I can break away to do any riding. I managed over 12,000 this year. All of it in the USA.
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