nuhawk

You mean "go a hundred miles an hour" until you run out of gas - which is about 40 minutes later!

seaton001

You are right, you are dreaming.... you would run out of gas on a superhawk going that fast before you hit 100 miles!

superbling

Motorcyclist magazine did this many years ago in Montana when that state had an "unlimited" speed law in the rural sections. They found you can't do big time speeds AND make time because fuel economy takes a HUGE nosedive and then too much time is spent refueling (assuming you can find a fuel station in the Montana outback!). Kind of a tortoise/hare scenario.

I've done many 600+ mile runs on superbling but only a couple of 800+ days. Those 800's were on a VFR. For me, after that 600 mile mark, the miles get MUCH tougher; i.e, the difference between 3-400 range and the 7-800 zone is extreme. Sort of like running a marathon with the last 8 miles all uphill!

TIP: start taking pain relievers about 1/3 of the way into it. Stretch at stops.

Hawkrider

Not true. I was still getting about 110 miles before RLOD going 95mph (same 985 mile trip). It really does get old after a while. Beats the **** out of the rear tire too, especially in summer months.

supertwinSH

My longest day was 759 miles in 11 hours and I was on a BMW K100RS 16v going from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Brevard, NC. Man that was a cool trip!

PJay

I did a 1300km (a bit over 800 miles) one-day ride on my SH on Sunday last weekend. I'd ridden 600km on Friday night for a meeting on Saturday, and rode the long way home.

The bike is stock standard except for removal of carb restrictors. Suspension set on the sports side of touring. Seat OEM.

The long way home includes several gorge and hill pass roads, about 400km of twisties to make life interesting, though our usual NZ roads are full of corners anyway. I had a pack on my back, with much paper in it, so my shoulders are still a bit weary even today.

Average speed: exactly 100km/hr (62.14mph), including fuel and meal stops; average fuel consumption (converted to Imperial NB 25% more than US) 43.45mpg. I seldom go over 5500rpm, but chew out tyres through cornering as I don't slow down a hell of a lot either.

My best day's distance was 1900km (1200 miles) around most of NZ's South Island in about 1981, on an XJ650 Yamaha, but I've done several 1000 mile days on BMWs. The SH is the most modern machine I have ever done distance above 500 miles a day on, and is not surprisingly much less tiring than those old things.

We used to have non-stop 1000 mile road trials here years and years ago; you were given an average speed for each section and lost one point for every minute fast and 1/2 point for every minute slow. My grandfather won one in 1922 on an H-D, with the loss of one time point. All roads then were gravel.

I won another, run over 2 days, in 1974 on a Suzuki triple. It was much less tough than in the old days, as only about half of the route for that one was gravel. Over the 25 sections, the overall average required was about 42mph, I seem to recall. One of the mountain passes on that road trial was a gravel road through snowy farmland, and I was so cold I could hardly get off and on the bike to open and close the gates.

It is perhaps needless to say that I like the easier life I have now.

Jonny

On my VFR:

Day 1: 250 miles
Day 2: 850 miles
Day 3: 1000 miles
Day 4: 1000 miles
Day 5: 350 miles

Day 1 a breeze. Day 2 suprizingly easy. Day 3 hurt. Day 4 hurt really bad. Day 5 a breeze.

Work up to it. Plan your first 1000 mile ride for mostly highway. Eat a little at each stop and if the weather is hot drink lots of water. You'll sweat it out before you have to take a leak. The body will probaly hurt but your mind will be fried at the end of the day.

vtrlvr

On my way back from California to Florida a couple of years ago i drove 1,180 on my 1997 Honda VFR750. I dont care what anyone says after 800 or so miles your butt will be sore on any kind of seat doesnt matter if it is a goldwing or a side car. At least on these kind of bikes (VTR and VFR) and others, you are leaning forward just a tad so that when the wind hits you are like floating in a pocket of air off your butt bone and off your wrists. (How about that choice of words. You like that dont ya.) That is what i noticed about my concours when i bought it. After 300 or 400 miles my *** bone was hurting. All my bikes have been bikes like VTR and VFR and Triumph Sprint so i am not used to sitting on my butt bone. I guess i better get used to it though in July i am taking a 9000 mile trip on it from Florida to California then up to Washington and over to Montana.

wtxrider

i woke up right before midnight one night, i was 17 at the time, 18 now this was in august, i woke up and decided i was gonna try and go to canada on my bike, an 86 honda magna v65, i left at midnight from big spring,tx, no credit card or nothin, so i had to make sure i hit the big towns, went to lamesa, headed west to roswell i think then went straight up north through colorado, i got to colorado springs and got pulled over and was made to get a hotel, this was at 12 pm that day, no ticket or nothin, i wasn't makin good time cause my bike was ony gettin about 28 to 32 mpg in that part of the country, then left at 9pm from the hotel , went straight up and made it about 40 miles north of cheyenne wyoming, it was about 330 in the morning, i was freezin a cold front had blew in i still had about 400 miles to get to butte montana, where iwas gonna get a hotel, but i turned around and came back down through the panhandle and made it back at midnight, 1800 mile trip in exactly 48 hours

captainchaos

I did 750 way back in college on a 24 hr fatboy rental. I think the thing is you get uncomfortable no matter what riding position you're in if you can't move around a little. At least for me anyway...

Cleveland