Talking to Kevin Sanders a few years back and he told me regularly rode down to Southern Spain on a Saturday and back home on Sunday ���� all training for his round the world record attempt, his Mrs on the back ....Can’t see any pleasure in that myself ��
45000 Miles in 45 Days on a 1200GSA!
- Thread starter MIKE R
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Seriously, WTF:
is the fella american by any chance..? driveway could do with some attention....!
So only 30m in France ans 600 odd miles in UK easy lol
A lot of guys in the US love riding huge distances because it's generally easy riding and the fuel is cheap.
I've seen some of the bikes they ride and they are like mobile fuel tanks. A lot of Iron Butt riders alos have catherters fitted so they never have to stop!!
Not my cup of tea at all but on one of my Alaska trips we would knock off nearly 1700 miles in 4 days which was pretty good going up in Northern Canada and Alaska.
I've seen some of the bikes they ride and they are like mobile fuel tanks. A lot of Iron Butt riders alos have catherters fitted so they never have to stop!!
Not my cup of tea at all but on one of my Alaska trips we would knock off nearly 1700 miles in 4 days which was pretty good going up in Northern Canada and Alaska.
I know what you mean about easier riding the US.
When my wife and me rode our Harleys from Edmonton, Alberta to Fairbanks, Alaska we did the 2000 miles in 3 days - the hardest part was always finding a gas station when you wanted one but we made it. We also did a few Iron Butt rides in Canada and also the three flags one in 36 hours; that's leave Canada, cross the US and arrive in Mexico - we reached Tijuana on a Saturday afternoon in absolute bedlam! We couldn't go faster than 70 mph or our bikes got very thirsty. It'd have been a piece of piss on a GSA with a 33 litre tank.
Yeah 45,000 miles of interstate Highway, how *ucking boring, thats the yanks for ya!!
I totally get that....just not 1k miles a day for 45 days...
well i thought it was a bloody good day's riding. i certainly wouldn't do it.
The world is full of them. This chap I know is in extreme marathons 100+ miles. He did the Camino de Santiago in 5 days
That is about the distance you did on your bike....People like that would be better off being truck drivers because everything above 6-700 miles a day feels like work and takes the fun out of riding plus you have to run in the dark which is more dangerous on a bike for obvious reasons...To each their own !
1000 miles a day for 6 weeks straight - the poor bastard.Driving truck at least he would have made half a year of wages and hitting a deer at night would hurt only half as bad...
1000 miles a day for 6 weeks straight - the poor bastard.Driving truck at least he would have made half a year of wages and hitting a deer at night would hurt only half as bad...
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To commend on some of the commends;
Fuel in the U.S. WAS cheap and got expensive too with prices of 4 bucks or more for a gallon...
And for sure riding in the U.S. is boring and no fun with it's ridiculously low speed limits and eager law-enforment busy writing tickets for "speeding"...
Land of the fee where nothing is free...
Fuel in the U.S. WAS cheap and got expensive too with prices of 4 bucks or more for a gallon...
And for sure riding in the U.S. is boring and no fun with it's ridiculously low speed limits and eager law-enforment busy writing tickets for "speeding"...
Land of the fee where nothing is free...
