Is anyone interested in getting some Rusty Nuts?

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2010, 17:05

To see if we can do a 1000 mile challenge in 24 hours the ADV way? Coffee, Pies and Petrol on the back if needed, keep going, choose a nice route that would include back roads in the dead of night, rabbits, possums and share milkers getting to work... Unplanned, except for gas....Use the GPS to track and ride till the bum really hurts and we gotta stand on the pegs to get into the driveway...
Lemme know your thoughts....We only need 24 hours...we have all of the new year to recover from it...

**nooles** · 30th November 2010, 17:47

I'd be keen

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2010, 18:09

Originally Posted by nooles

I'd be keen

Cool....Lets see how many we get over the next week. If there is enough interest, say, 6-10, it will be worth it even for bragging rights....

**Hitcher** · 30th November 2010, 18:23

Don't make your route too hard. Remember that you have to average 67kmh to complete in 24 hours. You'll also need to run it past 24-hour gas stations (for obvious reasons) which need to be spaced at intervals that most bikes can reach on a tank. Good luck with your route selection!

**pete376403** · 30th November 2010, 18:28

Real adventure bikes have big fuel tanks, which could make the planning a little easier.

24 hours on the KLR....I think oil would be the issue, not fuel.

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2010, 18:33

Originally Posted by pete376403

Real adventure bikes have big fuel tanks, which could make the planning a little easier.

24 hours on the KLR....I think oil would be the issue, not fuel.

I agree....thing is, if we do it, the biggest challenge might be where to arrange a rendezvous? That might mean some of us actually do a lot more....I have an idea of the route...
Might be good to begin central NI, that gives us a good figure eight....crossing SHWY1 for the odd 24 hour fuel stop when required...

**JATZ** · 30th November 2010, 19:02

**dino3310** · 30th November 2010, 20:19

Have fun.

my arse aint fat enough yet to spend that long on the XRs saddle

**junkmanjoe** · 30th November 2010, 23:04

Answer: 1611 km = 1001.028 mi.

i have easly done 842km in one day at open road and back country road speeds avrageing 70-110km , depending on your route, gravel etc, which will make going slower, it would be doable.

like to see your planed route, start place and time, take in to count traveling to and from start and finish lines......

JMJ

**buggsubique** · 1st December 2010, 12:00

before I realised there was a lack of interest and we went with the Army ride instead. Was working off around 1200km incorporating the Wairarapa. May want to bin the link rd through to Pureora and do Mangakino instead. Key bit like has been said will be to keep the route ffffast.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...thern-Adv-Ride

**GPS MAN** · 1st December 2010, 17:59

Keep me posted as to final route and date decision....

I could get interested.....

Of course, the KLR will require some extra engine oil

**Waihou Thumper** · 1st December 2010, 19:14

will do....
I am thinking of starting from wherever is closest for all. Thing is, we have to travel and if we can do a sort of figure eight, it will mean criss crossing the SHWY for gas etc. If I end up doing this on my own, I can leave from Te Aroha and just ride....
Metal roads are not a priority, thing is doing the 100 miles not 1000kms....So, 1600kms. It will be the little country roads though, the ones I know and some metal roads, Link Rd especially, maybe Leslie Rd too and some other long straight metal roads in the Waikato, lower North Island etc....

**warewolf** · 1st December 2010, 19:42

Rusty Nuts review.

**bart** · 1st December 2010, 20:52

Originally Posted by warewolf

Rusty Nuts review.

A good read. I think my arse would self destruct well before the 1000 mile point.

**Taz** · 3rd December 2010, 21:09

I've done 2 GC's both in less than 20 hours and didn't have to go all that fast to achieve that. Keep stops brief and you only have to average 80-85kmh overall.