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How far do you commute?

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Wanting to see how many brave souls use their Buddy to commute on a regular basis and how far is that commute?
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ddscooters wrote:Wanting to see how many brave souls use their Buddy to commute on a regular basis and how far is that commute?
Not too far. 5 miles each way.
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Over the summer, I was doing 32 miles round trip. Now I'm down to 20, but I do it daily.

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my old commute was only 1.5 miles each way, and I would ride home for lunch too.

My new commute will be about 9 miles each way.

I only have the buddy, so it will be everyday, any weather! :twisted:
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about 5 and a half miles including one coffee break on the way
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I think I'm only about 5 miles each way. But I do get to ride on the one and only crazy US1, where I get to hit 60BMPH every day and dodge the über rich and über old in their really big cars each time!!

I love my Buddy for commuting. Even though it's only a 10 minute ride or so it just makes the day better.
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34 miles round trip, except when there is over a 50% chance of rain.
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Mine is 13mi each way, sometimes 10miRT lunch or appointment trip. I've got nearly 1400mi since July8, have commuted all but about 6 days.

Only complaint is that I'd like a little more power from 50-65. And I gotta look into that 0-5mph stutter/hesitation that came back...

Buddy is a great commuter overall, but I'm looking at a MC.
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Daily commute. About 10 miles round trip.
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20 miles a day love it
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My commute sucks.. it's only 2 miles each way. I thought this was great before I got the Blur. Now I wish it was more hah.
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The Burgman is my commuter, about 70 miles a day. Every two weeks I round Boca Raton to Cape Coral ~330 mile and take the Burg as often as weather permits. Getting my my salayr and 58 cents a mile...well wouldn't you?
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22 miles RT

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22 miles RT - I think I'll be switching to the cage come rainy season ...
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Post by betsy q. bramble »

my commute is about 13 miles each way. I commute every day, unless it is raining buckets in the morning. I work at a scooter shop, so driving my car would be totally lame.
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52 miles round trip.... If I take the direct route ;)
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My house is just a 3.5 miles from work, but I go 6.5 miles each way to and from class four days a week as well. I look forward to my class days now because it's a great winding road to get to the west campus...and I always see tons of scooters and motorcycles (I wish I saw more Buddies!)
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I commute just over 4 miles. I often take a route that makes it about 6! :D
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about 20ft (office in my house)
wish I could ride to work everyday :(
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About 2000 miles each way. Wish I could ride to work too.
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Post by Jessica »

My daily commute is around 4 miles each way. I could go another way and get there in 3 miles, but I prefer to take the longer scenic route.
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3.1 miles one way.

I ride when it's sunny, raining, cold and warm. I plan on riding throughout the winter when it's not snowing because the parking has gotten so bad on campus (and the scoot gets rockstar parking). Last year I stopped November 1st and resumed April 1st this year. I picked up a scooterskirt on eBay for 13 bucks this summer so I'm hoping that will aid in extending my riding season. New England sux sometimes.
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olhogrider wrote:About 2000 miles each way. Wish I could ride to work too.



:shock:

um.... what?
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MikieTaps wrote:
olhogrider wrote:About 2000 miles each way. Wish I could ride to work too.



:shock:

um.... what?
live near San Francisco, work in Dallas. Way too long to ride. I do ride the Vespa to SFO. Is that what you meant? or was I just not TYPING LOUD ENOUGH! :P
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weekly commute?

i knew a guy in chicago that would fly into chicago for 4 or 5 days then back home to boston on the weekends...
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about 8 miles round trip... a nice short ride to school and back :)
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I know the feeling. I'm in Cleveland right now. Wanted to stop by POC but they are closed Mondays :cry: I'll be leaving before dawn.
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about 18 miles roundtrip.
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about 3.5 miles. I ride whenever it doesn't rain. We'll see about the winter months though :D
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Re: How far do you commute?

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ddscooters wrote:Wanting to see how many brave souls use their Buddy to commute on a regular basis and how far is that commute?
I've just had the Buddy for a couple of weeks now and have done the 20 mile round trip commute to work a few times. The last mile or so is always interesting as that takes me through a pretty active gang area. That would be the one mile of the commute that I basically forget about a graceful new Buddy break-in period and pretty much see how fast I can go. :)

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sobo_buddy wrote:about 3.5 miles. I ride whenever it doesn't rain. We'll see about the winter months though :D
if you don't ride in the rain, then how does your scooter get clean?

are you supposed to wash these things too?
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6mi each way, no rain though. My work attire and laptop wouldn't like the soaking :cry:
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My commute is so short and easy I go home for lunch – 7 miles one way, so I total about 28 miles a day, that is only good weather days; fair weather rider here.
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Mine is about 6 miles each way.

And I ride Rain or Shine, unless the weather is exceptionally bad.
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About 10 miles each way. Since it's been getting cooler in the morning I don't take the scoot if its raining in the morning, but going home in rain in the afternoon is not a problem so far. Hoping it doesn't turn into hail or high wind, but so far it's been great.

Hoping to ride at least once every week or two this winter on sunny days.
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About 3 miles each way to work, but I'll be parking Buddy when the snow starts to fly and the roads get icy.
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26 miles five days a week to school and back. only an 8 mile r.t. to work. my buddy has 6400 miles on it. i am riding to san antonio the first week of october. i am super excited.
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armacham wrote:
sobo_buddy wrote:about 3.5 miles. I ride whenever it doesn't rain. We'll see about the winter months though :D
if you don't ride in the rain, then how does your scooter get clean?

are you supposed to wash these things too?
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my commute is 6.2 miles or 11.3 BDUs each way. I've averaged 2000 commute miles/year over the past 3 years and this year I've put <2000 miles on the cage.

Now that I have a Burgman for weekend trips to the beach the cage sits in the garage unless we have something too big for the scooter to haul.
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I ride 42 miles round trip daily, unless it's a 50% chance of rain. My partner has the short 16 mile jaunt. We live in Casa View, (east Dallas near Whiterock Lake), I work in Plano, he works Uptown.

Besides the commutes, we ride most everywhere that the cage or truck is not needed. Nightly we scoot over to Whiterock to walk. The Buddies run to Starbucks, the gym, grocery shopping, out to lunch on weekends and twice a week for dinner.

Since we have had the Bud's, (just over 2 months now), we have saved almost 1K in cage gas bills! :wink:
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About 40 miles round trip. It is mostly two lane roads with 35 to 45 MPH speed limit. I now take the buddy whenever I can!
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my commute is 42 or 44 miles round trip. i ride it 5 days a week all year round except for during snow storms i take the train. i wait a few days until the roads are clear and then start riding again! only part of me that gets really cold are my fingers. i need to find some super warm gloves.
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140 miles roundtrip but only 3 times a week. Got rained on last trip. Messy and not much fun.
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i go about 10 miles each way to go from home to my shop.

for some reason the ride there is usually about 15 miles. and the ride home is sometimes as much as 50 miles..... i like to just ride after i close up sometimes.


twice a week i take my daughter to school, which is a 20 mile trip across town.


i've only driven my cages twice in the past 6 weeks since i go the scoot.

and as of the ride home this morning after dropping asia off at scool, i'm now at 1900 miles in 6 weeks :)
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24 miles RT
The majority of my commute is thru the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
along the Ohio and Erie Canal. Very scenic.
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30 miles round trip.
Sometimes when I get home I turn around and go back out for a ride. :wink:
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I do about 20-30 round trip.....never really pay much attention as I am too busy scootin' :wink:
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When I worked in Mansfield, it was 44 miles RT. Now that I'm at the airport, it's about 20 miles RT. And there's a SWEET curvy road I take EVERY DAY that puts a permagrin on my face morning and afternoon! (For you DFWers: it's Mid-Cities between 360 and 121 in Euless)

Since I've been 'baptized' recently, I'm not as scared of the rain, but I still will opt out given the opportunity...otherwise, barring high winds, I'm on Bonheur.

And it's been FREEZING the past two mornings! My permagrin is frozen on my face when I pull into my parking lot!
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around 30 miles round trip, over a large bridge, 40+mph roads- love it every time.
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I commute 11 miles per day...the only time I don't ride is in snow, sleet or heavy rain...

Nothing makes me happier than suiting up every morning for the lovely ride to work...
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It was around 60 miles round trip. My back can't take it any longer so my wife just uses the Buddy for suburban chores. I'm sticking with my cage for the commute. I get 40+ mpg in my 07' Civic Coupe (non-hybrid) so it's not too bad.
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