Well from some rough maths I worked out that around 1,700 miles will be from my commute, 48 miles a week here and there. Then I hope to do at least 60+ on the weekend so should get me over the 4,500 hopefully!
My commute is 44 miles a week which is why I guess our figures are pretty close, I do tend to drive 1 day a week or so to pickup packages delivered to work so I usually consider my weekly commuting average miles to be ~36.
I really want to focus on the 40-60 mile distance so I know I can do 90-120km Sportives. I've not put my name forwards and committed to any yet (except the local ones I did last year). I'm pretty sure I'd be the one drafting you on your 'way home'!
As per your thoughts on bikes - I'm looking the CX direction but I would also use that bike as a winter commuter. The Kinesis 4S I'm loving the idea of - buy as a frame and swap my 105 groupset over, then as funds allow upgrade the brakes from rim's to discs, then gradually buy the Ultegra parts required to put on my 'summer' bike (mostly drivechain, would retain the 5800 shifters). Grand plans and all that!
Well, my new frame arrived today. Felt like the box was empty.
It's *that* lightweight, the box and packaging was heavier?
It's a measure of your commitment to long days in the saddle, is what it is, really.
The yearly measurement is best as you can compare against previous years to confirm you've been putting longer rides in - your yearly mileage might not change but if you went from two 30 mile rides a week one year to one 60 mile ride the next your Eddington would.
It has limited use outside of another individual riders metric to compare against themselves and others (without taking factors like types of rides, elevation & time in saddle into consideration). Although we all seem to love doing that at the moment!
One 'bad' thing that Strava/Powermeters/FTP/etc have brought about is that riders are given figures they can easily compare against others! Then again without those numbers we wouldn't be able to analyse our ride data...
I guess a direct drive turbo would be better but we have a mix of 9 and 10 speed bikes on the turbo at the moment, and it's the vibration rather than the noise that seems to transmit through the house.
Type of flooring makes a huge difference. I've ridden outside (paving slabs which I leveled with quantites of sand over compacted soil, but not concreted), on outside decking (suspended wooden frame concreted into the ground) and in my conservatory (solid tiled floor fixed to concrete base over foundation).
The conservatory is very similar for noise produced as the paving slabs, the decking made a huge amount of noise! (I'm guessing due to the empty area below). Can only imagine the noise when done on floorboards with a bigger area below!
Due to the noise in my confined conservatory (and the mess!) I'm tracking down a trainer mat when I find one for a good price - I'm using a piece of underlay at the moment but it gets very slippy when moist!
