[Closed] Which do you ride more? (your cycling autobiography)

Which do you ride more?

commute.......by far. use my tourer mostly, but last month rode my mtb, which could also double as a tourer.

Time or distance?

Hmm. Didn't think of that. I suppose because in both time and distance, for me it's the road.

Let's say time.

95% Mountain bike (off road/trails), 5% Shopping bike (for going shopping) for me.

In order of descending distance and time:

Road (Winter bike, Fixed bike, Race 1, Best bike, TT bike, Race 2)
Commute (Winter bike, Fixed bike, Recumbent Trike)
MTB (SS monstercross mtb, Cross bike)
Track (Dolan Seta, Dolan Precursa)

The Fixed and Winter road bikes are also used for commuting. The trike just for commuting (or when broken!). The race bike and TT bike for racing only, but both also come to work in the summer as I race after work. The nice bike is for long club and solo rides. Race 2 is stored away from home for when I visit my sister's family, along with the Kiddyback tandem.

Mine is relative to time of year..

Over winter it's been 80-85% indoor on Zwift.
Summer will be 85% trails/Ridgeway etc

commute CX bike. 4 days a week.
when the kids are older I might be able to get out more on the mtb.....I hope

Definitely MTB - Road is less in time and distance and is only generally used when it's ridiculously horrid on the trails. Although this year it's mostly been Zwift so far!

Varies, last year was roughly equal between road, commute and MTB by distance. The year before there was more road.

Commute - ~60 miles a week
MTB - ~25 miles a week
Road (not commuting) - 300 miles a year maybe (not including road miles during MTB rides)

14 miles per day for a commute on a Charge Grater. It's a fun bike, especially around Bristol.

Beyond that MTB -quantocks, Exmoor, Mendips. Aiming to get to know mid-Wales this year, Elan Valley, Doethie are the ideas.

I rode a road bike once, about five years ago. At the moment about half my mileage is commuting but I commute on my MTB via some trails. Keeps you fit trying to keep up with passing roadies when you're pedalling a 6" bike with sticky cut spikes at 20psi - they always drop me eventually though!

Commute bike is used most frequently but only very short distance. The stooge and fs do similar numbers of trips out but the stooge does more distance.

My Commuter/tourer/road bike.

2008 (I think?) Cannondale Badboy with 26" wheels, full mudguards, trekking gears and a rear rack. I probably shouldn't use it for big road rides, but I do mainly because I can wear MTB clothes/helmet on it and not look silly! And it's good training because it weighs a tonne!

Entirely mountain for me on either full suss or hardtail. I did spend a surprising amount of time looking at the copper coloured Croix de fer last year though, and noticed a particularly nice looking Road Rat earlier this year so might eventually do some road miles!

commute a lot. it's much easier to ride to work 5 times a week than go proper riding! (although i normally do 3/4 days)

Road bike - but then even a quick sunday morning blast is 50km, big day out 200km. doing that on the mountain bike is much tougher.

Gravel bike doesn't get used as much as i'd like.

100% mountain. No road or commute or CX bikes.

I do have three mountain bikes though, and two get ridden fairly equally and one older big bouncer is maybe getting limited to trips to BPW, Aston Hill etc, but then again just servicing and refreshing it a bit I'm now tempted to ride the hell out of it again.

The MTBs aren't just for mucking about fun, they do distances and just getting out there in the countryside.

I have 2 mountain bikes with different sized wheels. I use both of these bikes for mountain biking. 😐

off road 50-60 miles/week
on road 20-25 miles/week riding to the off road

The road riding is fun because there's a hotly contested Strava climb near where I live and last time I looked I was 16th this year. ON A FAT BIKE WOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Just looking at strava, my commuter/road bike (although I don't think I've used it for a pleasure ride yet) has done 7474.5 miles since last march/april.

My Full sus MTB has done 84 miles since June time. Done another couple of off road rides on top of that but not alot, maybe 15-20 miles.

So by my maths I make that 98.67% commuting, roughly.

You've changed your tune rocketman! I remeber you sneering in derision when I asked if you used strava last year. Now look at you revelling in your leaderboard status. The trick to getting a KOM is to set up a segment on such a route that only you are likley to ride!

I hadn't joined when you asked jekkyl but it was getting tedious waiting for matey who Stravas everything to catch up and having borrowed his phone oen time and completely ballsed up his PRs I thought I'd sign up if only to confirm what I already knew

The trick to getting a KOM is to set up a segment on such a route that only you are likley to ride!

Significantly more on the commute for me, which is on the road

Commute - commuterised gravel bike or Brompton. Used to be a SS flat bar road bike but that hasn't been ridden in a while

Road - same!

Errands - same! folding crate on the back of the gravel bike makes it useful

Kids - same (Brompton is a great kid carrier, gravel bike is pretty handy too)

MTB - HT or rigid

MTB for fun only, and taking out the dog. If I didn't commute by bike I wouldn't be riding much unfortunately

I've recently started to extend my commute home, which means I'm on a commuting bike but has been very enjoyable

I'm on the Brompton today, about 20 mile round trip

My mountain bikes do the most miles.
Road bike a lot less but it's got more recently.
I'm fortunate that I can incorporate decent mountain bike rides into my commute especially in the summer. Tend to do more road commutes in the winter months.

Commuter/winter bike - maybe 120 miles a week (work shifts so not just 5-day-weeks)

nice road bike- 100+ miles a week in the summer/dry months

CX bike - raced every weekend Sept-Jan (but a typical race only 10 miles), used semi-regularly for dry bridleway thrashes in the summer

MTBs (Alpine 160, Wazoo fat bike) - last ridden in May 2016 😯

Usually have a big riding holiday a year (been to Rockies, Morocco, Turkey, India...) which up until last year was always MTB. We took the road bikes to Dolomites, Alps, Vosges, Belgium last year and loved it so much we're doing Italy/Switzerland this year.

Just mountain for me

Only mountain here.

According to a spreadsheet I use to keep track of what I've done all year, in 2016 I spent 79 days digging and 49 days actually riding my MTB...
Digging is addictive, and it tempts you into thinking that it will be a quick job, then it turns into 2 weeks of hard labour. Then you forget and think if I just did a little tweak there ... and boom another fortnight is gone.

Hardtail 29er most of the time, including 5 mile road commute each way to work occasionally. Full sus 26" when it's not making horrible noises, local stuff is relatively dry or big days out/uplift. 4x bike not yet tried in anger.

Mountain bike by a country mile.
Rollers when I'm on nights is next.
Road bike for the odd ride in the summer, although I plan to do more this year.
DH bike, vert occasionally.

Mountain by far. In the summer I do a bit of road riding for training and some weeks it'll actually be more than I do offroad, but only ever to get fitter for the stuff I actually like so it's still secondary.

3 mountain bikes, and a road/commuter bike- it's not a "road bike" as it has flat bars but it does the same job when I want it to. Oh and a trials bike which I basically never ride because it frustrates me.

Commute, for which I have a fixed road bike (soon to have a freewheel and more braking)...

But For "lesure" purposes my CX/gravel bike sees the most use, then My road bike... The MTB is rather neglected at present...

Depends where I end up working, and if there's riding. I did a lot more MTB in 2016 cos I was in Swindon where there's lots of great long MTB routes, then I got fed up with road. 2015 I probably did more road.

My commute involves a mountain bike. Eccy woods, Whirlow and often blacka, houndkirk, lady C's or burbage/stanage if I want a longer loop.

So rigid 29er gets the most hours and distance.

Road only covered 1200km last year. Mainly three weeks in the pyrenees and on the turbo.

Cx about 800km

Full suss 2000km

Rigid 29er 6500km