Your Longest Ride?

[cabinetman]

What was your longest two wheeled ride?

My last well needed vacation was supposed to be 10 days but turned into 17 days, on the road with my Gold Wing. I set out to visit a couple of ex Army buddies scattered around different states. I made a big circle, leaving South Florida going up to Ft. Bragg, then to Cincinnati, then to Des Moines, then to Kansas City, and then to New Orleans (needed to soak up some dixieland music). Then the return trip home was about 900 miles...non stop (except for pit stops and food). Learned all about white line fever.

My longest bicycle trip was to West Palm Beach and back...about 100 miles on a Peugeot PX10. I was really tired and my butt (and other parts) were sore for days.
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[crokett]

My longest was 60 miles. 30 one way, 30 back. It was several years ago, pre-kids when I was still in decent shape. My wife and I rode along the Paul Bunyan trail up in Minnesota.

[reddog552]

Tour of 84

I put on 46,000 miles in 1984 went to practaly every major city East of the Rockies.I have probably 7-800,000 miles on a Harley or something that looked like 1.Spent 10 yrs riding with Outlaws.

[dbhost]

No motor involved, but when I was in my first year in college, I rode from University of Arizona (Tucson) to Arizona State University (Tempe) to visit a friend on a mountain bike. I guess it was around 100 miles each way...

I was much younger, and in much better shape then.

[Bruce Cohen]

New York-Mazatlan, Mexico-LA-SF-NYC.

All done on a chopped 1947 Indian hard-tail with 14" kicked out Springer front forks and shift on the tank.

Pissed blood for a month. but that was part of the "fun" of this trip and a trip it was, if you chtch my drift.

Took this long to blow-off the time in S.E. Asia.

Bruce

And Yo Reddog, you definitely got me beat on total mikes in the saddle. And have you ever been to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally or the party at Laconia Motorcycle Week.

[JimD]

Many years ago, I rode a 350 Yamaha two cylinder two cycle from Kansas City over a pass in Colorado down to a park I don't remember now. The problem was the bike kept running worse and worse. I got worried it wouldn't start and parked at the top of the pass at a reststop for the night. Even in the middle of summer, the water in puddles froze at night that high up. I bump started the bike going down the hill the next morning - took a mile or more to get it started - and rode it home on 1.5 cylinders without turning it off even to refuel. One cylinder chimed in periodically and it vibrated something awful. My hands buzzed for more than a day afterward. It was a LONG ride.

Got a 4 cycle Honda, a 450, after that. It was not nearly as quick as the Yamaha but would run all day flat out without complaint (topped out over 90 mph if I sat up and maybe 95 if I tucked in).

Jim

[twistsol]

In high school I rode my bicycle from Minnesota to Muncie, IN. it took nine days to get there. I rode home with my parents after the family reunion. I was almost liteally half the man I am now

[JR]

My longest bicycle ride this year was 75 miles. I covered some roads I don't get to too often. When I had a Kawasaki 500, 35 years ago, I would hit those roads thinking I was really roaming. It would never have occured to me to ride my bicycle over there back then.

JR

[atgcpaul]

My longest motored two-wheel ride was on the island of Phuket in Thailand on
a scooter with my wife hanging off the back. That poor bike. We probably
covered less than 30 miles.

My longest bicycle ride was several years ago when I rode sweep for our
club's Century ride in Philadelphia. We swept the Century and Metric Century
route so the total was 115 miles.

Paul

[Richard in Smithville]

When I was younger, I used to partake in a 20 mile bike-a-thon every year. After the first year I used to do the ride on a daily basis. Although I never rode the great distances posted on here in one go, I used to log just shy of 1000 miles during the good weather each summer.

[Knottscott]

In 1980, I rode ~ 300 miles on a 1976 Suzuki GT750 from Lake George to south of Rochester in the rain with no fairing. I started with rain gear, shed it during it a "clearing", then got poured on while above the Mohawk Valley where I couldn't find a bridge for 10 miles....still nearly 200 miles from home. During that trip, the horn shorted out, "on" of course until it gave up the ghost, and somehow I lost a side cover to the bike....my lips were the same color blue as the side cover I lost by the time I got home. I went from a daily rider to not touching that thing for 3 weeks. The good news was that I was coming from my first trip to meet my girlfriend's family....all her little cousins loved the bike ride. I've been happily married to her for 27-1/2 years now, and still make the trip regularly...by car!

[tseavoy]

Gold Wing? You mean Wingebago?

Tom on Marrowstone

I have never ridden a motorcycle. My longest trip on my '47 Schwinn (tank model with horn, sheepskin covered seat) was probably four miles, but that was on gravel roads.

Tom on Marrowstone

[HarmsWay]

I've probably driven a motorbike less than 10km total in my life, whereas I used to ride a bicycle about 10,000km a year. I never did any epic trips though. I had a routine one summer where my Saturdays were ride a hilly 200km, run 10 or 20km then eat a lot. Too old and lazy for that now.

Bob

[Lee4847]

LOML and I bicycled 65 miles on a gravel trail in Pa. That was a LONG day!

[Bill in Buena Park]

2002, LA to DC (Run For The Wall) - then Rolling Thunder - and back to LA, on a Kawasaki Voyager XII. Somewhere around 5500 miles round trip, in a leisurely 16 days. Lovely run across the 70, then home on the 40. That was the year the one of the bridges on the 40 washed out in Oklahoma - had to detour farther south.

2004, Went with the Run from LA to Gallup NM, then back.