Is it now illegal to wave to each other?

**Hitcher** · 28th January 2005, 08:13

Originally Posted by Honda

I figure that the CBR will be quick enough to make up for the extra fuel stops

One would hope so. A five-minute fuel stop works out to about 20 minutes off the road. This means that if you are stopping every hour-and-a-half for gas you will have to put at least 20km distance on me, on your rolling average, to break even, assuming that you only stop for five minutes each time. Given that my rolling average won't be much different to yours, and that my seat and riding position are significantly more comfortable all I can say is "Good luck"!

The first bike home in this year's Grand Challenge (1,600km in 24 hours) was a Honda ST1300, in a time of 18 hours (that's a rolling average of 90kmh that included some good winding stretches, such as the back road from Woodwille to Dannevirke, Napier to Gisborne and the Waioeka Gorge (in a hurricane)).

**XP@** · 28th January 2005, 08:56

Originally Posted by Hitcher

One would hope so. A five-minute fuel stop works out to about 20 minutes off the road. This means that if you are stopping every hour-and-a-half for gas you will have to put at least 20km distance on me, on your rolling average, to break even, assuming that you only stop for five minutes each time. Given that my rolling average won't be much different to yours, and that my seat and riding position are significantly more comfortable all I can say is "Good luck"!

The first bike home in this year's Grand Challenge (1,600km in 24 hours) was a Honda ST1300, in a time of 18 hours (that's a rolling average of 90kmh that included some good winding stretches, such as the back road from Woodwille to Dannevirke, Napier to Gisborne and the Waioeka Gorge (in a hurricane)).

Yup and he kissed his licence bye bye... silly boy, they said it wasn't a race.

Agree with the distance / comfort thing though, riding a 1000 miler on an f650 you pass the sports bikes on their fuel stops, butt stops and cop stops then they pass you like the wind. At the end we arrive at the same time, only one difference the speed tax is nill for the f650

On the wave subject, I assume all riders want to wave but some can and some can't... I still remember in my early days of riding being waved to by a guy on a sport bike who was peg scraping in a hairpin - I was impressed.

**Hitcher** · 28th January 2005, 10:09

Originally Posted by XP@

Yup and he kissed his licence bye bye... silly boy, they said it wasn't a race.

Did Ian lose his licence? Hadn't caught up with that. I knew he had copped two tickets en route though...

**XP@** · 28th January 2005, 10:23

I understood he only had a couple of points left at the start of the ride (probably something to do with being first back the year before too), so yup, he lost it.