....ride on a tiger, in a day.
I did a piffling 375 miles yesterday (in training for the Scotland trip) and am absolutely cream crackered even now. I bet some of you guys do that before lunch. So the inevitable question, do we have a distance champion?
1086km (675 miles), last Tuesday. Dease Lake, British Columbia, to Quesnel, British Columbia. Twelve and a half hours total time, including stops.
900km the day before from Million Dollar Falls campsite, south of Haines Junction, Yukon, to Dease Lake.
Stock seat is bearable, but I get really sore across the shoulders; not relaxing enough I suppose. :icon_wink:
I can't get near Nickjtc, but distances tend to smaller here. We have charity ride every year for the Great North Air Ambulance. You ride the perimeter of the area they cover, supposedly 500
miles, my trip read 535 miles when I finished after well over 12 hours. Two friends of mine, one on a Fireblade and one on a Sprint ST, did two laps in under 24 hours.
Quote from: nickjtc on June 30, 2014, 09:25:56 PM
1086km (675 miles), last Tuesday. Dease Lake, British Columbia, to Quesnel, British Columbia. Twelve and a half hours total time, including stops.
900km the day before from Million Dollar Falls campsite, south of Haines Junction, Yukon, to Dease Lake.
Stock seat is bearable, but I get really sore across the shoulders; not relaxing enough I suppose. :icon_wink:
:notworthy. I did 170 MLS recently..serious 'numb bum' syndrom :icon_redface: I hope to make the Scotland trip? Think I will invest in a Airhawk2.
Last week on the France trip I did two days of roughly 350 miles each, using the Airhawk 2, and arrived tired, but could probably have done another 100 miles. I did a couple of days of around 250 miles without the Airhawk, and had had enough. Notably, I felt like I'd been kicked in the prostrate. Hard.
I shall be using the Airhawk for Scotland.
Singapore to Hatyai (Thailand) by the longer route, a shade over 900 kms, on the Steamer, once on the 800XC and once on a Street Triple, that was a bit harder in the monsoon rain :icon_eek:. If I hadn't run out of cigs, I'd have kept going to Phuket (1350kms) :pimp
Few years ago did Barcelona/Birmingham 1050 miles in 16 hours but that did include the Dover/Calais crossing,but 6/700 miles days jeeze we've done loads of e'm.
Pyrenees to Stourbridge about 950 miles in 19 hours
cheers Spud :thumbsup
Not on the Tiger but the Speed 3 ..... Chester to Llandovery and back (Brecon Beacons) last Saturday around 250m, ask me how my wrists are :icon_frown:
Just goes to show that these bikes are very capable as a long distance tool. No worries on my behalf about a 78,000 km machine being problematical mechanically over the long haul. Well, except for the speedo drive seizing up, that is. :icon_wink:
And, frankly, if I have to get off every 2-3 hours to refuel, the seat isn't too much of an issue. However, a Corbin is very tempting.... :bad
I typically do about 250-650 miles a day when I am traveling. About 825 is the longest day I remember rolling from Wyoming across Nebraska and home to Iowa.
Have done a couple of long days, 950 odd miles and about 700 in the past. Got another comming up in a couple of weeks, Essex down to Thonon Les Baines in a day, a shade under 700 miles.
Quote from: HockleyBoy on July 02, 2014, 09:37:37 AM
Have done a couple of long days, 950 odd miles and about 700 in the past. Got another comming up in a couple of weeks, Essex down to Thonon Les Baines in a day, a shade under 700 miles.
Have you done that trip before?
No, it will be a first.
Sorry for derailing the thread but we stayed in Thonon on the way to Mugello in 2012.
We rode to Rheims the first day and set off for Thonon,off the motorway at Troyes down on the A road to Dijon hop on the autoroute and round to Dole the Poligny/Champagnole/Morec/Gex it's a great ride and a scenic route that's the good news.
Even from Rheims and riding the way I do!! bumped into afternoon/evening traffic in Geneve you also have the hassle of a vignette,now we have ridden through Geneve before during the day and it was a doddle but early evening it's a horror even on a bike,to the point we headed south to St Julien and looped back up to Annemasse but after a great days riding both the bike and I (but the wife was ok!!) nearly blew a gasket in the heat.
It's a balancing act about how much good road you want to ride on as opposed to doing more on the autoroute but you need to sit down and work it out and if it's bad weather it'll be fun not!!,the good news if your not staying with friends and need a hotel use the Ibis,cheapo chain hotel and it's on the side of the lake with fanatastic views and a walk down the hill for somewhere to eat,we talked about staying the week and using it as a base it was that good.
We have always either crossed Switzerland a lot further north(Vallorbe) or looped a lot further south Bourg en Bresse so never been along the shores of the south side of the lake before and it's great.
Coming back from Italy we did Florence/Milan through Switzerland(Simplon pass) via Vallorbe Pontarlier/Besancon/Visoul/Langres and stayed at Chaumont and still had time to walk for a couple of hours to loosen the limbs so that gives you some idea of what we can do without Geneve traffic!!!
Thanks Chris, useful info. Probably going to have to mostly stick to the autoroutes and hammer down there though as want to get it done in a day. The slower fun riding will be from then on as we intend to ride the Route des Grande Alpes down to Menton on the Med before heading along the coast and back through Italy taking in a few sights and The Stelvio if time allows.
The Ibis sounds good, am going to look it up and see if I can book, useful to have somewhere to head for.
We left Thonon went along the lake into Switzerland over the Grand St Bernard for the zillion time(we like it) dropped down into a Aosta it was that hot climbed back up into the mountains over to Val d Isere over the pass and down to Mont Cenis there's a great hotel that's caters for bikes.
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Re Menton my parents used to take a caravan to Sospel(cooler) every year for 6 weeks in the summer and nip down to the beach at Menton for the day so we used to ride down on a bike,but the bad news the coast road is just impossible to ride with the traffic and the heat and the only option for travel is the motorway that is nailed to the side of the mountain.
Mustang
Rather than derail the thread think of title and move these couple of posts
Bugger :BangHead
I wanted to do Val d' Isere and the St Bernard this year (not been before) but let my mate talk me into the Grand Masif instead. The roads were brilliant for riding (I've never been on the side of the tyre for so long before) but the views were nothing special. I now know he's into twisties while I'm more of a tourer. Maybe next year..... :icon_rolleyes:
We've been over the St Bernard on this 955 3/4 times the 885i would run at the tope when we went on that and I've had a bike and a car with carb engines that had to bump started because they wouldn't go.
Looking for something different there's a hostel at the top a real spit and sawdust job it a surreal experience late afternoon as the sun set and the temp drops,but the air is so thin expect a bad night sleep you need to drink a gallon of water and wake up in the morning with a headache,when we left it must have been -5c in the morning 10 minutes down the mountain and it was 30+ :icon_eek:
This between the hostel and the boarder.
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This is the classic photo that I must have seen a million times on the net,the first time we went over 25 years ago there's a guys selling sweats my darling wife buys a small bag that cost 30 quid :icon_redface:,an hour previous it was mid 30's C here we are freezing our spuds off it was that cold.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h185/wing2541/Florence2012078.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/wing2541/media/Florence2012078.jpg.html)
Just a fwiw, talking about longest rides.
Longest 'day' ride: 2152km in 25 hours. KLR650 (believe it or not). Alberta 2000 Rally
1500 miles/36 hours. St. Paul, Alberta to Kamloops, BC, via Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. VFR800.
2000 miles/48 hours. Gualala, California to Kamloops, BC, via Salt Lake City. VFR800
Your proctologist must love you :pottytrain2 :ImaPoser
don't say a word Mustang :nono
Quote from: Sin_Tiger on July 05, 2014, 10:23:38 PM
Your proctologist must love you :pottytrain2
Let's just say I am glad that there are small fingers involved! :ImaPoser
Quote from: Chris Canning on July 03, 2014, 04:28:24 PM
This is the classic photo that I must have seen a million times on the net,
Hopefully will be posting a few similar pics up in the Ride Reports section in a few weeks :icon_biggrin:
Sorry to re-rail this thread...
I bought my Girly precisely because it was an extremely competent highway bike. I put about 10k miles on it in the first 8 months, and I've done lots of high-mile days.
My longest single day (so far) was a certified Iron Butt ride of 1000 miles in 21 hours. That was fun, but a bit grueling.
My first real LD ride was a "shorty" to test my mettle: 1 megameter in a day (1 megameter = 1000 km = 621 miles). I've since decided 600-700 miles is a very comfortable per diem distance on long rides in the American West. I'd like to get some extra fuel on board so I can do it with only one gas stop.
One time I took off for a motorcycle ride and ended up riding all the way to Los Angeles to go shopping, and then back home. That was a bit under 800 miles round trip, and included about 120 miles of constant lane splitting. L.A. traffic doesn't just suck, it is the standard against which all sucking traffic must be measured.
I rode around the USA on the Tiger in 2006, 6600 miles in 11 days of riding. That was during a record-setting heat wave, so my comfort limit was about 700-800 miles west of the Mississippi and 500-600 miles east of it. I made about half my mileage at night, when it was cooler and my stamina picked up. I can honestly say I've driven all the way across Ohio, but never seen it - it was night the entire distance across. (Unfortunately, I can't say that about Illinois, perhaps the most irritating state to drive in the entire Union.)
- Ix