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Longest trip?

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I'm trying to plan, and get the bike ready for, an Iron Butt(1,000 miles in 24 hours) ride this fall. I was wondering if nag GSers have done this or what has your craziest ride been?
 
I'm thinking about doing one in the Fall, perhaps on the 550. When and where are you going?
 
I'm in Rhode Island, tentatively I'm heading up to I90 and over to Ohio, down to PA, and East back home. I was thinking in September. I'm hoping my wrists and elbows don't fall apart or off on such a long ride haha
 
Well, it was a long ride and we needed Iron Butts, but the way we did it, we did not even come close to qualifying by IBA standards. :o

Back in 1979, we were living in the Los Angeles area. We went to the Aspencade Rally in Ruidoso, New Mexico, a direct distance of about 850 miles.

Like Bugs Bunny's famous line, though, "we shoulda toined left at Albuquerque". :D

Compared to when we left home, the odometer was almost 5000 miles higher when we got to the rally.
Total trip was just over 6100 miles. Time was three weeks.
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Longest nonstop ride was Bangor Maine to Naples Florida, about 1700 miles.

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I'm sure that Shirazdrum is our current record holder - Montana - Arctic circle -Tierra del Fuego- Paraguay so far

850 Combat went from Tillamook,OR to Etna, Maine 2 summers ago
 
That seat looks like it would get awfully uncomfortable after 500 miles. That's got to be one of the most important items, a comfortable seat and the ergonomics on the bike have to be good. Is that what you are riding, you 1100??
 
I did 850 Kms one day in November
it was cold very cold.
I would think 1000 miles in nice conditions would be easy.
 
Well let's see, I was 18 and rode a 250 dream from Portland to Helena non stop, does that count?
 
gustovh said:
Well let's see, I was 18 and rode a 250 dream from Portland to Helena non stop, does that count?
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661 miles according to google maps but this was likely before the interstate highway system was built.
 
I was 23 years old and rode from Norfolk, VA to El Paso, TX on my GS700 in three days. The third day was Baton Rouge to El Paso, 1,046 miles.

In August.

The engine temp gauge was indicating about 80 degrees F higher than normal, and I began praying for the engine to blow up so that a trucker with an air conditioned cab could pick me up. Bike and I made it there, spent three days in El P, and then took five days to go back.

I left El P at 10:00 pm, and crossed New Mexico and Texas in the dark.
 
Definitely the craziest was leaving the GS rally in Fayetteville, WV at 6am, in the rain, and arriving home that evening in NH at 8:30. That was 912 miles in 14.5 hours for an average speed of 62.9 mph... with 7 gasoline stops.:eek: Let's just say that PA was all but a blur and for the next three days I was worried that State Police from 7 states would be knocking on my door.

Longest enjoyable ride was Nova Scotia for a long weekend. I think I clocked 2400 miles pretty much just to ride the 100 miles in the Cape Bretton National Park. And I did that one on a GS. Worth every bit of it.
 
Jethro, that is my plan for pre moosehead this year. I took that entire week off and heading up Friday after work to Bangor or Houlton and on from their. I will be ready to sit at camp and do nothing come Thursday morning.

I got friends on both sides of the boarder in Houlton so that crossing is my plan, also got a friend with a place in Nova Scotia so might get someplace other than a tent to crash a few of the nights.
 
Rode from Seattle Washington to Orlando Florida, 4 days 3400 miles, but I was 26 then, and very homesick. Looking back on it, that was a very crazy thing to do, what was I thinking? Even still I often think of doing it again but it would probably kill me now.
 
Skateguy50 said:
Jethro, that is my plan for pre moosehead this year. I took that entire week off and heading up Friday after work to Bangor or Houlton and on from their. I will be ready to sit at camp and do nothing come Thursday morning.

I got friends on both sides of the boarder in Houlton so that crossing is my plan, also got a friend with a place in Nova Scotia so might get someplace other than a tent to crash a few of the nights.
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Oh man, I'm severely jelious. That is such a great trip. Make sure to allot an entire day (or two even) to explore all of Cape Bretton National Park. Not just the Cabot Trail, but all the off shoots to the fishing villages etc. I have to get back up there sometime!
 
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