Longest ride you've ever ridden?

[shrub]

About 12 years ago I rode my Moto Guzzi Le Mans 2 from browns Bay in Auckland to ChCh in one day (Xmas eve) so I could spend Xmas with my kids. If anyone has ridden a Lemon, they're not a touring bike by any stretch of anything, and I walked like Quasimodo for about a week. 1095 kms all up, and I did it in daylight - I left at about 0600 and arrived about 9.00 pm.

I also rode around the outside of the South Island a year or so ago in 3 days - 2100 kms and one of those journeys I'll never forget for all the right reasons - including a wrong turning in Southland that had me doing a 34km detour on a gravel road in the rain.

I know that compared to many people that's pretty ordinary stuff, and with the TT2000 coming up I'm curious to know what other people have done.

[gw555]

did 1020km in one day on my GT250 couple of years ago - said I would never do it again!!! I did used to regularly do >750km daily trips on this bike

have done a couple of 800km day trips on the GT650 thinking about doing a >1000km in the next few weeks...............

[Whynot]

Have done a few days around 800-900km on a CBR600
London to Nurburgring
London to near Le Mans
and Basel - Dunkerque

few others as well but i forget.

[Grubber]

Did Dunedin to Auckland in one hit once on my Harley. Straight to Picton with a 2 hour wait and onto boat then gone. 7 1/2 hours later i was home in Aucks.
Stretch from Welly to Aucks was from 9pm till 4.30am on a nice calm winters night. Awesome ride it was. Ya just don't forget those ones eh!

[release_the_bees]

For me, the longest trip in a single day was Auckland to Cape Reinga and back. I left at 5.30am and got back at 8.30pm. It was a great ride, especially the way there up the west coast. It was around 920km riding in total if I remember correctly.

[trailblazer]

shit my biggest ride was only whakatane to taupo then back to whakatane around 300ks i think but ain't got nothing on you guys.

[shrub]

Stretch from Welly to Aucks was from 9pm till 4.30am on a nice calm winters night. Awesome ride it was. Ya just don't forget those ones eh!

I bet the desert road was, um, interesting. I rode the desert road at night in January once with a couple of mates who had never done it - they couldn't figure out why I put on all my thermal kit when we stopped at Palmy.

[C.Linnell]

I feel like there's too much to see on the way, so I limit myself to 400km in a day. Maybe I like the stopping part too much to be a *real* biker?

[shrub]

I feel like there's too much to see on the way, so I limit myself to 400km in a day. Maybe I like the stopping part too much to be a *real* biker?

Nah mate, the stopping is often the best part and too many of us are too hung up on "getting there" to stop along the way and enjoy the scenery.

[Voltaire]

Munich to London, on a R75/5 in February back from the Elefant Treffen, about 900kms....it was bloody cold.

Same trip a year later with a sidecar....was snowing from Dover to London.....

Kaikoura to Auckland a year later of way back from Brass...same bike and sidecar....snowing again....

[raftn]

Nah mate, the stopping is often the best part and too many of us are too hung up on "getting there" to stop along the way and enjoy the scenery.

I did 800kms one day, I think that was my biggest, took me 12 hours one day to do 550 kms, stoped for morning tea, stopped for lunch, stopped for soffee, stopped to talk to locals, stopped and admired the scenery...stopped for a smoke, I wasn't in a rush ... felt like a long day, but not that many KMS in reality.

[martybabe]

The English midlands to the south of France on an XS750...about 700 miles, urm 1100 ks ?? Had a puncture in there too so that counts as a rest period I suppose. It took me two days to walk without bow legs again. These days maybe 600k before I start crying in my helmet

[willytheekid]

....About 12 years ago I rode my Moto Guzzi Le Mans 2 from browns Bay in Auckland to ChCh in one day (Xmas eve) so I could spend Xmas with my kids. .

GOD DAMN!...respect!

There not nick-named "torture racks" for no reason.

[shrub]

GOD DAMN!...respect!

There not nick-named "torture racks" for no reason.

I rode that bloody thing everywhere - even commuted on it (now THAT is an achievement). I did have an aftermarket seat made up by Dave Sewell though.

[phill-k]

So with those sorts of km's and thinking of the TT2000, how do you guys judge your performance drop off over that sort of riding time - say first part of the trip to the second part. 100% down to 70% or what? just curious