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185.5 miles. Rode south from Seattle, hooked around onto the Olympic Peninsula and up alongside the Hood Canal. Cold as hell but lovely.

185.5 miles. Rode south from Seattle, hooked around onto the Olympic Peninsula and up alongside the Hood Canal. Cold as hell but lovely.

Atta boy. Good thing you weren't after something really important, like a nice little microbrew four states over.

Z My suggestion . . . Start a new thread and call it: 2009 Million Mile Challenge + or something like that. I set up a spreadsheet in google docs and invite people who want in on the fun. The people who got in on the fun this year will I'm sure play next year. I'd leave the "challenge" at 1...

Okay, here it is . . . last tally I'm going to do on this thread. Any miles posted after this won't get added to . . . 1,295,898.5 It's probably not completely accurate, but WTF, it sure was fum all the way around, nes pas? Some observations There are some serious milers on this forum...

Thanks to all of you. There are some powerful words here.

We did this last year and I wonder if people would be up for it again this year . . . In the spirit of the holidays and friendship, what did you learn this year, or learn about yourself this year, as a result of riding, hanging with riders, or anything else to do with motorcycling. I'll start...

GM, Chrysler, Honda . . . motorsports are going to get eviscerated.

T Excellent photos too! Cheers C56

Since I was ten years old or so I've been going to car show, motorcycle shows, both, occasionally neither, sometimes boats . . . you get the idea. This was my fourth Seattle Motorcycle Show, one a year since I've moved here. Quick Takes Where the hell was BMW. The guys at Ride West told me...

That's just a stunning report all the way around. My body screams when I ride my Aprilia for more than about an hour.

+ 1. Someone set it up!

+1 Be safe, be well.

You saw it here first . . Becuase I write a motorcycle blog (www.midliferider.com) I got an email from a colleague at Harley Davidson. Depending on when you read this, it's actually breaking news (and the photos are not on the HD website). I wanted to let you in on the excitement at...

To Colin's point, we've crushed 1 million miles. Well done. I will do a final tally at the end of the year and then the 2008 challenge will be closed. I'll leave it to someone else to issue and track a challenge next year if they want to. Or perhaps we should just have a "what did you do on...

Miles to here are . . . 1,206,344.5 There is a question about FJR vs. non FJR miles. The non FJR miles are probably 15,000 or so.

Any bike will do Jill. Bring those miles on!

So this probably isn't the thread then to say that I bought one, huh? Massive end of year discount brought it down to the "stupidly expensive" from the "galactically expensive" category.

There was a time when I wondered if we would get there. Well thanks to stalwarts and new contributors down the stretch, we've made the million mile work look like easy pickings. I suspect that all in, the forum rode at least 50% more miles than what we're reporting. And the total to here is ...

Thanks for the kind words. I always have to force myself to do the tallies but I get such a kick out of reading what everyone has been doing . . . which was the whole point of this exercise. Someday some social scientist should do a deep dive on all this data. It paints such a rich picture.