Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts

Saturday, September 6, 2008

6,000+ miles

I've hit 1,500 miles on my bikes since April, which was my goal for this bike season (which isn't over yet). One of my bikes now has 6,177 miles on it.
Here's a map showing this distance mapped as a circle around a single point.

The URL for GPSVisualizer is: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators

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.