Little bit of idle curiosity here, what's the furthest cumulative distance you've ridden on one frame? We're talking total mileage on one frame, ridden by you, across its lifetime. Different builds of the same frame are allowed, as long as the frame is the one constant, looking for some well used, high mileage bikes.
I'll kick it off with a fairly low ball bid of 4600km on one of the cheap Charge Plugs from eBay that were kicking around here a few years ago, as I'm a serial bike swapper. It's been a gravel bike/commuter/flat bar/drop bar for various parts of it's life and is currently a bare frame in the shed, so still more miles to come in it's future. The more pictures the better, lets see some bikes with 10's of thousands of kilometres!
I did have an old Dawes 701 commuter that a previous owner had put ~32,000km on over a decade and that I got another 3000km out of before it cracked, but that's already breaking the rules..
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Plug a couple of years ago on the TNR
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And the Dawes it replaced
I have an old Gary Fisher 29er HT that I have about 5000 miles on. Everything else gets swapped out way before this.
My old Specialized Allen. I think I did about 13k on that lump. The only thing I changed was brake pads and a crankset as the non model Shimano drive side arm fell off the axle 😆
Never changed chains, cassette, chainrings, wheel bearings, even the tyres. Sold it to make the space for something decent for kore than I paid for it, nearly 7 years later. The only time it got washed was when I put the advert up!
I bought a Seven Axiom SL in 2003 to celebrate the birth of our first son. I would say it's done a conservative 40,000km and is still going strong. Absolutely the most comfortable bike I've ridden.
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I had a 2014 Specialized Roubaix road frame, that i did over 23,000 miles on, including 310 miles in a day and over 10,000 miles in a year commuting on it, the weird thing is i didn't really like it, it was a very dull ride, not exciting in any way, but it was easy to ride miles on...
My Independent Fabrication Deluxe that I had built in 2008. I've done about 9,000 miles commuting and probably did about 3,000 miles off road before that. Not being used at the moment as I've pretty much stopped using it for mountain biking (my full suss is more fun) and I've moved jobs so no longer commute.
Salsa Pistola that's been to France, Italy and all over UK. What do I need to do to post pic?
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I've got a 2004 Stumpjumper, its been variously my main mountain bike, my commuting bike and now my trainer bike. It probably done 10x the mileage of any other bike I've owned, no idea the total mileage but 5000+ seems reasonable
Saracen Hack. Bought second hand about 6 years ago. My first 'CX/Gravel' bike. Done about 15500 Km on that. Now consigned to the turbo as the rear rack mounting point ripped a big hole on the seat-stay when I was trying the undo the bolt, and I wouldn't trust it for riding on now.
The Pickenflick, which largely replaced it as my fun CX/gravel bike (and which is so nice to ride it is used for most of my commutes too) has done 12500km in a little over two years; most of that would have gone to the Hack had I not bought the PF.
The Hack has always been a little too large for me, but I've adapted over the years, and have really enjoyed riding it, but fell out of love with it after getting the Pickenflick which is the right size for me, lighter, livelier, more fun and more comfortable.
For me by a long shot is my old S-Works Tarmac bought way back in 2005 after someone helped themselves to my old Giant TCR and Intense Tracer. I'd been uisng itas my main road bike until last year when it was replaced with a Venge. I generally did about 6000km a year on it so roughly over 80,000km!
Edit: It is also the only bike that the frame has lasted more than three years!
The Singular Peregrine by a long way. 15,000 miles of London commuting for starters, lots of long rides out from london, a few on/off road 100milers, SDW, R100, 3 months in Finland as a bikepacker, commuter, tourer, CX racer, gravel grinder.
Marvellous, versatile, timeless bike.
‘92 marin eldridge grade, did about 10k miles a year on that bike for around 3 years, i then got a road bike as well, but it was probably still doing 3-4000 miles a year for the next decade.
It survived a head on with a car, i toured on it, i put suspension forks on it, i used it in road mode with slicks, it got stolen (and recovered by police)
I did over 60mph on it, im confident I’ll never go that fast on a bicycle again.
The frame was literally the only original component on it, not even the paint. I friggin loved it. Eventually it rusted through near the BB.
Conservative estimate:50k miles/80k kms.
I’m willing to bet someone will outdo this by quite some margin.
My Shand
Probably done about 20,000 km I think. Strava has logged just under 10k but I bought it in 2007 and didn't start using Strava until 2012. It has been in semi-retirement since 2016.
Don't know the mileage as I have never recorded any stats for any biking but it would be my early 90's Cannondale M900 - raced, commuted and holidayed on that - inc a lengthy loop around the Atlas Mountains. Only gave it away to a bike recycling charity in Glasgow couple months ago.
I did about 8000 miles on a mk2 cotic solaris before it was nicked whilst I was visiting Santa Cruz on an american holiday.
No idea how many miles I've done on the nomad I replaced it with 🙂
Will soon pass 10,000 miles on my Genesis CdF which I bought at the end of 2012. Everything's been replaced since then...except the seatpost, which is now well and truly seized in!
Put a few km's on my old Singular Kite. I recently let it go for a Kona Rove ST, which has better brakes & more mud room, but doesn't have the same zing.
easily done 50,000 miles on my mark 1 on-one pompino, sadly it's in the loft at the moment as it's too hilly for fixed/my knees round here. That bike is just so right, my wife has a later one (post EN tests?) that is terrible in comparison. If I ever meet Brant I owe him a pint or 2 🙂
Scandal v2 29er....owned from new (2011?) and , whilst full suspension bikes of mine have come and gone, the Scandal stays and gets ridden every week but no idea on overall mileage.
Currently fully rigid but has been through various guises including 130mm forks with an angleset. Surprised I havent broken it (seatstays are pretty narrow towards the dropout)...it just keeps going. Thought about the new Scandal with the £150 offer but just cant be bothered to change
I've done 8,500k on my Propain Spindrift. Not bad for something sold as a freeride bike.
My first generation Specialized Langster SS road bike. Black aluminium, straight blade alu forks. £400 new in about 2003 or 2004(?)
It's currently on 74,000 miles. Had a wired computer of one sort of another on it since new. A lot of that is commuting but it's done quite a few Dunwich Dynamo rides, a few flatter Sportives & Audaxes, hundreds of regular rides (for a while it was my go-to winter bike until I got a CX) and I've even done a few crit races on it (much to the irritation of people on bikes costing 10x as much...)
It's a proper Triggers Broom, however the frame, forks, stem, bars and seatpost (all alu) are original. It's super comfy, near enough indestructible, still looks smart...
I'd quite like to get it to 100,000 miles.
My 2011 Orange 5 got to just over 8000 miles before I retired it in 2018. Went everywhere on that bike for a long time, was even commuting on it for a while after my beater bike snapped. It had 3 different builds in it's 7 years in use, changed colour once. The frame is now hung up in a cupboard waiting for somewhere suitable to display it. The only original bits by the end were the front triangle, swingarm and the Maxle, everything else got swapped on a regular basis.
Other bikes with high miles on them are: My 2015 Trek Fuel EX with 3,157 currently and still in use, my Boardman Hybrid commuter that was written of in an RTC at 3,759 and my current commuter of a Marin Nicasio has 4,167 miles so far. If it wasn't for various accidents or just me wanting something new I'd have put well over 10,000 miles on my old Carrera Vengeance I bought for £165 in some random sale. Only chopped it in as they were doing a trade-in deal on the Boardman and I wanted something a bit faster.
Kinesis cx6, its my commuter, shopper, very occasional racer and sometimes gravel rider (got well into it a few years back, mainly gone back to rougher stuff now)
22,700 logged miles so far (more from shopping & dicking about), just over 6 years old.
I've only got stats since I started recording on Strava in June 2015, but since then have recorded every ride
Some of them had a fair few miles on before I started recording...
Im amazed anyone measures this.
I don't measure it but a few quick calcs tells I've probably done more than 20,000kms on my Planet X London Road, with commuting and being my only road bike for about 6 years. So much for that dodgy seat tube!!
August 2015 down in the Pyrenees.
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My 1994 Indian Fire Trail frame/bike has done near enough 80,000 miles over the period 94 to 2004 in various guises,
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How it looked when new
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I secretly wanted a manitou frame but made do with stickers
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Still got it hanging up in bedroom but it hasn't turned a pedal in over 6 years.
About 25k miles on a bike I bought from the tip and turned into a fixed wheel commuter. Replaced the frame and did another 10k miles minimum before snapping that frame. All on the same rear wheel, saddle and bars.
I sold my much loved and much abused Airdrop Edit V2 this afternoon. The final scores since getting it new in June 2017: 10037km and 760378m of descent.
The distance isn't much, but I'm quite proud of the descent bit! Airdrop should be pretty proud of the still going and still running well bit.
According to veloviewer I've now done 6,830km on my Bird Aeris mk1, which I'm very happy with to say that I've also racked up 5,000km on CX bikes during the same period.
Everything is original too except the drivechain.
I imagine that I did more on my previous bike (Maverick ML7/5) because I rode it for 9 years, but I didn't record anything then.
Love this thread and the pics. Proper readers wives bike porn for me.
(My contender would be an alu Trek CX frame I had through my student years that I reckon did about 12,000 miles, but obviously that pales in comparison to some of the fantastic efforts above)
Huge miles there Crazy Legs!
Mine would be my Ribble:
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19,988 miles. Literally everything apart from the handlebars and seatpost has been changed at some point. I bought the frame second hand in Feb 2017, so no idea what the miles were before that.
Don't do huge miles on it any more, maybe 2,000 miles a year as commute is only 3 miles, and i've got another bike for longer winter rides, but every time I ride it, I still smile.
2012 cheap Chinese Ebay Road frame at 33,035.7 miles according to Strava. Next is my 2014 Boardman CX Team at 6,366.6 miles.
Just like the OP my most ridden is also a Charge Plug, I bought mine as a full build though in 2015. It's done 12,300 miles so far on Strava, by a long margin my most ridden, as it's my only road bike. It's proved pretty versatile so I can see many more miles to come.
This is it in standard road outfit:
But it's also pretty capable of some lightweight touring:
Or slightly heavier touring with rack and mudguards:
And of course, lack of mtb during lockdown has led to a dabble in gravel riding:
