[Guest]

I've done a few long and insanely long days on my bike, and my curiousity is getting the better of me. Sometimes I wonder if my long-distance yearnings have something to do with living in a remote corner of the country. I've done quite a few 600-800 mile days, and one Ironbutt ride.

I'd love to hear how far other riders have taken their bikes in a day and what kind of bike they did it on.

 

[Uncle Bob]

My short rides are usually about 100 miles and my longer ones maybe up to 500 miles. But I've never really had the time to go riding for a whole day.

 

[sime]

sometimes it takes me a whole day to do 500km - damn hairpins again :roll:

 

[Guest]

My longest ride was 330 miles through the mountains on my Savage.

 

[vstrombc]

LLLLLLLooooooonnnnnnGGGGGG day

Alturas, Northern california to Vancouver BC on my DR650 thumper - something like 700 miles non stop & stopped in a police road block just blocks from home - duh

I really missed my sweety after 12 days on the road from Vancouver to Pikes Peak Colorado to Reno & back to Vancouver

My trusty DR was loaded like a Tibetan Yak

pic is Dr650 in colorado

 

[Uncle Bob]

Now that's mileage, actually went back in time did you ? :lol:

 

[vstrombc]

long days

interestingly enough, the DR650 was actually a decent bike for touring. The small aftermarket removeable windshield cut the wind pretty well and the uncomfortable seat wasn't that much of an issue as I'm a cyclist as well. The weight of my luggage actually helped settle the bike a bit. The best surprise was the excellent performance, as long as you didn't need to go 160 km/hr all day. The bike would cruise well at 120-140 km/hr without feeling like it would blow up. long grades didn't bother it much and it ran very clean & smooth at 14,110 ft at the top of Pikes Peak

 

[ion54]

Going back 20 years, in Romania, 400km two-up on a two stroke 50cc/5HP with 70km/h top speed.

 

[Jonathan]

Longest ride that I had was about 375 miles. It was a hard ride overnight to Miami and back. It was alot of fun.

 

[GSXR louis]

South of France

In the early 80's three of us travelled from Gloucestershire in the Southwest of England to the south of France to see the Bol D'or 24 hour endurance race. My mate on a Honda CB450 Black Bomber, my brother on a GT500 and me on an RD400. We left home at 3.00 in the afternoon and caught the overnight ferry.
What with the Honda destroying its clutch and only having a cruising speed of about 60mph and regularly getting lost we didn't arrive until mod day on the Sunday. God knows how far it was but we all felt every single mile.
A couple of years later 2 up on a GS750 we managed to get there in time for tea on Saturday.

 

[Guest]

Seattle to LosAngeles

Hey everybody! I like all of the possitive feedback through out this forum! with that out of the way, first off I ride a 2001 GSX-R 600 with a lot of mods, I just moved from seattle to LA and I road my gsxr all the way down in one day (About 14hrs) thats about 1300 miles in 14hrs I love my bike!!!!! thats the longest trip I've takin and I can't wait to do it again. but next time I want to take the coast, stay safe, have fun, and stay up~~~~~~~~

 

[Guest]

1972 - Suzuki T500 Titan - Two up. Started in Redondo Beach and cruised up the PCH until we hit 250 miles, then we turned around and came back home. Mostly, I remember the cold!

I've done over 2400 miles non-stop, but in a car. :roll: