Longest ride you've ever ridden?

[Crasherfromwayback]

I did just under 1000 miles when I was in the States in '07' and an XB12SS. Was well rooted when I finished up for the day! But years and years ago, one of my best mates rode non stop (apart from fuel) from Adelaide to Perth! Tough cunt.

[gijoe1313]

Hmmm methinks I have done my fair share of long rides, but I'm mostly interested to see how Gremlin fares on his epic road trip in the South Island. He has set an impressive goal of some mad milage (even for me) in a very compressed amount of time.

Even I would have to train to do what he is contemplating on tackling! I think one of the more memorable trips I had was a ride from Auckland down to Wellington, called Colapop (as he was known then) and he was blimm'in up in Tauranga with DMNTD!

So I turned around and visited him there and rode part of the Coro loop (before that was terminated shortly due to a crash from one of the group members). Then I beetled back off to Auckland.

But I do recall a trip to get a magazine from Sylvia Park ended up with me riding to Cape Reinga and back (because I got side-tracked). Wait, more of these sorts of rides are coming back to my confoolzed memory now!

[Elysium]

Entire loop of the South Island on the Honda CB900 Hornet about 2 years ago.

[banditrider]

Longest in one hit? On my first Grand Challenge we got lost and did a few extra miles and then we rode home to Palmy straight after lunch - so probably around 1,900km without sleep.

One other memorable day was Cromwell to Palmy - we hadn't planned on it but when arrived in Hokitika we thought why not? Adding the ferry in made the approx 1,100km seem a lot longer. Left at 7am and and got in at 3am the next day. Probably my first really long ride.

I agree with others that going from 1,000 to 1,600km in a hit is a big jump - the first 1,000km are a piece of cake but sooner or later you start getting tired - know when to stop!

The Rusty Super Tour guys are the real distance heroes - 10,000km in 10 days.

http://rustynuts.co.nz/default.aspx?PageID=455

[ac3_snow]

My longest would be auckland to Waverly to try and buy a ute, turned out to be average so had to get back on my bike and ride straight back. Bloody long ride and all on a little cbr250rr (I'm 6 foot 3) so pretty painful and exhausting, ride there was brilliant, trip back not soo much.
don't know the exact distance, Waverly is half way between Hawera and Wanganui so a reasonable trip.

[Taz]

I think being a shift worker helped me with both my GC's as I found them easy and struggled to get to sleep afterwards.

[banditrider]

I think being a shift worker helped me with both my GC's as I found them easy and struggled to get to sleep afterwards.

I wondered about that too - when I first started doing them I was also a shift worker. I think mental toughness and a bit of common sense is probably the key...

[cheshirecat]

Several London to South of France and various parts in Euro. Depends very much on what you are up against, traffic/ road conditions, weather. Worst was when DRing London Chester (240k) and return - doesnt sound much but it snowed almost closing the motorway down, then black ice just out side London. Left 3pm and got back 2am then straight back on the bike 8 am for another 12 hours in London traffic. And it was only Monday. DRing taught me to pace myself and watch for those low concentration moments (and the second wind) - Best part was comming back down park lane amongst all those playboys in their lambos 2 in the morning - I was in no mood to take prisoners oops that second wind taking over.

[Shadowjack]

TT2000 last year, which came right after a 9 day, 4,000 km trip around the North Island. About half the days on the trip were spent with whanau and friends; a fair few involved some shingle. All in all, the trip served as useful training for the TT2K, but I'd have to say that the riding preempted the sight-seeing.

No major issues with the TT2K, and would be doing it again this year but for a partially torn right elbow tendon.

The TT2K instilled one thing - Total Respect to the 10K kms in 10 days riders!

[EJK]

around the block

[trailblazer]

around the block

the block just happens to be the east cape i guess.

[Oakie]

In one day ... not far. Wanaka to Christchurch. 422 km. In one trip over a few days ... not far. Ch - Queenstown- West Coast - Ch. 1400 odd km in 6 days.

[Blackshear]

Did trip from Aucks to whangamata with a mate that added up about 500km in one day, decided to do it by myself and add the coro loop onto it. I think it ended up being 720-odd.
Sore ass was sore. Turned off my music after 500km and just threw those gel-earplugs in. Fuck.

[nallac]

mines only a paltry 1100 and abit k's, half on my old R1 the other half on the X1 i swapped the R1 for. It was a nice Friday jaunt by myself.

Didn't wanna stop when i got home..

[Hitcher]

I've ridden 1,600km in 24 hours. Five times.