Tuesday, January 15, 2013

N.C. Perms -- What Have People Been Riding?, # 3

Previously

2011 Report (click here)
# 1 report for 2012 (click here)
# 2 report for 2012 (click here)

For a discussion of North Carolina Permanent-Populaires in 2010 and the benefits of Perm-Pops in general, see this article by Dean "Phun Physio" F, on Research Trailer Park.

 
15 and 8

In mid-2010, fellow NC-2010-rando-rookie Maria F set a goal to ride every Permanent and Perm-Populaire in North Carolina.  There were only 15 permanents in NC at the time (including 3 perm-pops).  If memory serves, she completed 12 of the courses, and had started a 13th, but DNF'd when her ride partner became ill.  But a funny thing happened on the way to that goal, people started creating new permanents at about the same rate she was crossing the original ones off her list.  I don't know when she abandoned the "ride every perm" goal as being unrealistic for her, but by the end of 2010, there were 8 new permanents that had not existed when she embarked on the journey.

 
27 (+1) and 16 (+1)

At the end of 2012, there were 28 Permanents that started in North Carolina AND 17 Perm-Pops.  (One of the Perms and one of the Perm-Pops had never been ridden.  I'll not mention either of those routes again in this series of reports on "What Have People Been Riding"; nothing against those routes, but they don't fit the series title.)  [Edit Jan-16-2013:  A Permanent-Search on the RUSA website reveals that there were 33 Permanents and 18 Perm-Pops as of Dec-31; since then, 2 Perms have "gone inactive" and 1 Perm-Pop has been added.  That means that there are several Perm and/or Perm-Pops that had yet to be ridden as of Dec-31.  I'll not mention any of those routes again in this series of historical reports.]  

Because of the plethora of routes, I've decided to split the presentation charts and discussion points (?) such that each chart will show only either the Perms or the Perm-Pops (otherwise the length of the charts gets rather unwieldy).  Additionally, to keep the size of the charts to a manageable size, I've decided to show data for 2006-2010 as a combined column(s) along with separate column(s) for 2011 and 2012.  I've also decided to combine the less-often-ridden Perms into a single line in the charts [edit Jan-16-2013:  or maybe not][If you are interested in the more detailed version of the charts, please feel welcome to contact me:  for an exorbitant fee, I'll make them available to you.]

 
A "Combined" Perm + Perm-Pop Chart


All Years





      riders        kms          hrs       k/rider        kph
Perms 1,323 271,265 13,808.4 205.0 19.6
Pops 852 88,651 4,543.8 104.1 19.5
total 2,175 359,916 18,352.3 165.5 19.6


Permanents Chart by Year:  Total "Completed Circuits", Kms, Hours, etc.


Permanents




      riders        kms          hrs       k/rider        kph
2012 347 71,181 3,670.7 205.1 19.4
2011 356 72,425 3,674.8 203.4 19.7
2010 323 66,097 3,371.3 204.6 19.6
2009 140 28,266 1,463.8 201.9 19.3
2008 80 16,846 851.9 210.6 19.8
2007 59 12,556 588.4 212.8 21.3
2006 18 3,894 187.6 216.3 20.8
total 1,323 271,265 13,808.4 205.0 19.6


Perm-Populaire Chart by Year:  Total "Completed Circuits", Kms, Hours, etc. 


Populaires




      riders        kms          hrs       k/rider        kph
2012 338 35,763 1,825.0 105.8 19.6
2011 355 36,474 1,884.8 102.7 19.4
2010 159 16,414 834.1 103.2 19.7
2009 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2008 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2007 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2006 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
total 852 88,651 4,543.8 104.1 19.5

RUSA initiated the Permanent-Populaire program in late 2009 (?); the first NC Perm-Pop ("Howling Grits") was approved in time for a January-2010 group ride.  Dean added the "Benson Mule Pull" and then the ubiquitous "Get 'er Dunn" soon thereafter ... and as can be seen from above, "them Populaires" were instantly popular (see above for link to Dean's article about the 2010 NC "Populaire Season").

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To keep the length of any single post relatively short, I'm stopping here for today.  If you want to find out which Permanents and Perm-Pops have been getting ridden the most ... you'll have to come back in another day or two.
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[For the next post in the series, click-here.]  

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