Lifetime MPH

[earthling]

And sitting waiting for the group to catch up, or warming belt and limbering up the track on -20F mornings on stand. Etc.
Means nothing IMO.

Its a very small percentage of your overall hours. Subtract them if its a consideration. Since this came up I have been paying attention to the total contribution of 'idle time' to the overall run time and its a small amount. When I wait on trails I let the sled cool down for 30 seconds and shut it off, when everyone catches up I typically startup, visor down, go. When I do spend an extended amount of time warming the sled up (say a few minutes) it is comparing minutes to ride time which is hours.

Lets say you spend 5 minutes warming up, that's 5 minutes in 180 (3 hours) or 2% of total runtime. On a normal day I bet that falls to 1%. Since we ride in varying temperature conditions the average will average out the warmup/shutdown times over the season and over lifetime of ownership. Take the worst case scenario of warmup time and subtract it from overall hours, its still going to be low single digital percentages of run time.

Last weekend was 9 hours of riding in a day, we stopped 6 times. Counting 10 minutes of warmup in the morning (being very generous) and about a minute startup/shutdown at each stop and the morning warmup thats a total of probably 15 minutes in 540 minutes of trip time or under three percent of the overall time. Just subtract that percentage from overall time and you will get a reasonable avg trail speed. Avg speed for that day was 64kph or about 40mph without subtracting idle time. That includes runs up to 100mph when the trail allowed. That's probably pretty good as an average speed for our trails especially considering we only did two lake crossings and they were very short.

 

[jonlafon1]

Don't forget the guy that rides trails with tons of stops and or road crossings.. And the guy that spins the track for 50 yards at every one of the stops? . Lots of factors involved.. I just don't read much into it at all.

 

[1nc 2000]

Would be cool if it showed percentage at half throttle and full throttle also.

 

[Turboflash]

Its a very small percentage of your overall hours. Subtract them if its a consideration. Since this came up I have been paying attention to the total contribution of 'idle time' to the overall run time and its a small amount. When I wait on trails I let the sled cool down for 30 seconds and shut it off, when everyone catches up I typically startup, visor down, go. When I do spend an extended amount of time warming the sled up (say a few minutes) it is comparing minutes to ride time which is hours.

Lets say you spend 5 minutes warming up, that's 5 minutes in 180 (3 hours) or 2% of total runtime. On a normal day I bet that falls to 1%. Since we ride in varying temperature conditions the average will average out the warmup/shutdown times over the season and over lifetime of ownership. Take the worst case scenario of warmup time and subtract it from overall hours, its still going to be low single digital percentages of run time.

Last weekend was 9 hours of riding in a day, we stopped 6 times. Counting 10 minutes of warmup in the morning (being very generous) and about a minute startup/shutdown at each stop and the morning warmup thats a total of probably 15 minutes in 540 minutes of trip time or under three percent of the overall time. Just subtract that percentage from overall time and you will get a reasonable avg trail speed. Avg speed for that day was 64kph or about 40mph without subtracting idle time. That includes runs up to 100mph when the trail allowed. That's probably pretty good as an average speed for our trails especially considering we only did two lake crossings and they were very short.

I mis-spoke. What I should have said, from my tiny corner of the world is, I don't care.
That said, on cold mornings, I warm up my sled to about 130 degF (first cold-start idle and running sled on stand to limber up belt, chain case oil, and track) before riding. Same at stops. Agree, if I'm waiting for riders to catch up, if it's more than about 2 minutes, I shut off.
Bottom line to me is I don't care and I don't do anything to attempt to improve my score.

 

[Fords4life]

As stated my 2017 sw is at 35.50 average, checked my boost today 1915 miles with 53.4 hrs= 35.86 avrg

 

[Rtbo]

I have 2 different riding styles. One is tug hill that is race bar to bar and stop all the time I bet on average we never ride more than 15-20 miles before we stop. #2 is Quebec saddlebagging and we might stop once or twice every 100 miles. The stops would definitely add up between the 2.

 

[sideshowBob]

I just checked mine and I have only averaged 29 mile per hour.

 

[Turboflash]

Yeah, it's only a point of reference/interest with no real other value. I think lots of sleds are mid 30's. Especially considering Yamaha says to check valve shim at 25,000 miles on these 998s.

 

[cannondale27]

I think it’s counting when key is on not actually engine running time. So if you ever forgot to turn key off and came out to dead battery it’s in there. Not making excuses it’s still a small percentage of a high mile sled. It for sure means something. Today trails were fast and gps moving average was 42mph usually it’s around 35. I will figure out the speedo. I know I am over 900hrs at almost 27000mi.

 

[DennyTuna]

Screen shot of my season on the GPS.

 

[cannondale27]

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Screen shot of my season on the GPS.

That’s cookin! Right on!