Friday, April 18, 2008

5,000 miles on my bike !

On April 17, I logged 5,000 miles on my main bike. This will be it's 4th season, and I hope to add another 1,200 miles by end of bike season in October.  It's a Haluzak (which are no longer made, unfortunately).  The picture is from the Bicycle Man site (http://www.bicycleman.com). 




I wondered how far 5,000 miles is in real-world miles,  so I found a web site (http://www.GPSvisualizer.com), which lets you make your own overlays over Google Maps. So, I used it to draw a 5,000 mile circle on the Earth, with my home as the center point. Here's the map:




So, that was the highpoint of my week: hitting 5,000 miles on a bike.  I rode additional miles on other bikes, but this is the only one where I keep track of cumulative miles on the computer.

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