Pinkbike Poll: How Much Time Do You Spend Riding Each Week?
Long days in big mountains add up the hours and keep the stoke well stocked. - Sterling Lorence photo
How much time do you spend riding, on average, in a given week during your prime riding season? We'll set aside those winter months that you don't want to think about and go for the prime time average.
Conversely, how much time would you like to spend riding each week? Now, don't be unrealistic here and say you want to spend 24/7 on the bike. Just think about if you had all the time you felt necessary to ride until you needed to rest, and what you could consistently maintain. What would be ideal?
Epic backcountry rides can run up the hours, but at some point you're going to need to sleep, right? - Sterling Lorence photo
That second column is one that I really doubt we'll see too many low numbers, but what is truly realistic?
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My wife wasn't too thrilled when I started building a pump track in the backyard to scratch the itch.
I was listening to some good bluegrass music at a bar in Western NC just last night and got to talking to a few friends about how much we have been riding consistently. I had the thought that it would be a good poll and knew it was my turn to make one. I looked, saw we hadn't done one on this topic recently, and so I made it. Sure, someone in the industry could look at it if they wanted for whatever purpose but there's not a bit to it other than I was curious how much everyone was riding. (Another secret- that's more or less how all of the polls are made.)
That’s what we have here- collection of data about how often random PB users ride. Sometimes we wonder what people are riding, or where, etc. All of those questions you may ask your friends? We just ask a lot of people at once.
There’s no conspiracy to any of the polls we make on the homepage. We just make them and post them. Sometimes we have an idea, sometimes we give each other ideas for them, and sometimes we get ideas from the comments. Alas, sometimes we want to make a poll but we know that someone is going to think we’re data mining for whatever bike brand, so we don’t.
If you want to see the results from any of the polls current or past we have posted, they’re available if you type it in the search, pull up the post, and click “results” at the bottom.
MIDNIGHT!
This Return to Earth challenge is keeping me out every day this month and to avoid monotony I'm doing a little exploring of my close-in trail options which are limited, but frankly more fun than I gave them credit for. Adding a short mid week evening ride to my normal schedule is clearly doable and I plan to do just that when July's 30-day challenge is over.
@islandforlife - There may be someone somewhere who could somehow find and break down that data but it's not something I'm all that sure I personally want to see...a top ten user list would be interesting though.
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You see they make these things called shuttle vehicles that you can shuttle a bicycle on and get around the United States that way. Just a short day's drive to a wonderful Shred. Thus the term close enough
Yay me?
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