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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