tbooth

Around 15k miles/year in the 4 years I've been here.

Was less, but then I unretired myself last year and now I go around all the eastern half of the state photographing houses.

WEBlue

8 -10k miles or so. The husband & I share one car & we're both semi-retired. He works totally from home, & I work very locally (--can bike or walk to work when weather is OK--).

The most miles we put on our car are from our regular monthly visits to elderly family in other states. Then the husband has some professional meetings/conferences per year in various cities here across the northeast USA, most best accessed by car.

I do miss the public transport (trains/bus) in southern England.

mrken30

Amazon don't do food deliveries to me yet.

mrken30

The strikes on Southern Rail, I don't miss those.

AdobePinon

Nope. Probably ~20k of that is from commuting and driving around at work. Most of the rest is from road trips. I could probably add a few k more for rental cars when I do travel for work, which is quite often.

WEBlue

I have to agree, though those didn't affect me nearly as often as the underground transport problems whenever we'd try to visit family in central London on the weekends. Always a pain to try to get anywhere specific, with all the line closures/work/rerouting/etc.

newadventure

We bought the Highlander when we came over at 83,000 miles. It has just ticked over 170,000 which is just under 20,000 a year. Considering that work is 6 miles away (call it 3,000 miles a year) and the kids cycle to school, i don't understand how we have managed that

Bob

On a slight tangent, but for the bikers here.

I just read a review about someone who was moving, had a Surly fatbike, Cannondale roadie, Santa Cruz for XC and a Rocky Mountain DH on the back of the car hitch.

Got rearended.

Almost $35K written off and that's not including damage to the SUV

not2old

one vehicle, just over 12,000 miles in 2016, expect the same in 2017

Nutek

Anyone that spent that amount of money on bicycles got rearended more than once.

mrken30

Just goes to show bikes are built to be ridden, not just dumped on a a trailer.

Pulaski

Who mentioned a trailer? Bob didn't.

I don't think that 99.99% of people would get any more enjoyment out of a $8,000 bike than a $1,000 bike, or even a $500 bike for that matter! That said, the owner who placed bikes that cost that much, on a trailer hitch is an idiot, twice over.

Bob

I don't know...not that I have the money for it, but there's something said for a full carbon bike that has as much travel in the suspension as they do. Heck, some of these $10K bikes weigh nearly as much as my front fork

Bob

You're right most probably wouldn't.

Though you wouldn't ride one of those bikes to the grocery store either, you wouldn't ride a single speed bike 30 miles to get to a trail either and riding down hill is a very different style to riding single track cross country in say Utah compared to Vermont and it's a very different, technical style down here in MA, hence most people having a hitch for multiple bikes, as a lot of folks group ride and lot of trails don't have much parking so it makes sense.

Nutek