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Originally Posted by keith_stepp
lol
I was reading your first post and thinking, "man, I am a wuss." Then, I read this and felt better.
The most I do in a day, usually, is 350 miles, but I always ride with my wife riding pillion. We stop a lot, take long lunches, and do a lot of sight seeing. I plan my trips in 1 hour segments where I ride for 45 minutes and stop for 15. Give or take, which works out to about 45 miles an hour and about 8 hours of riding.
When I am by myself, I can ride non-stop between tanks, which is about 150 miles. I do take long breaks at gas-ups though to recover. Still, it would be pretty reasonable to expect to get in a 500 mile day without trying too hard and 600 if you had fast roads.
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The last day back from Red Lodge was more of a "ya wanna stop? Nahh" kind of thing.
When we were having lunch in SLC, we were discussing that we could easily make Mesquite.
Rolled into Mesquite around 3 or 4 and stopped for dinner. Not feeling tired at all and still had plenty of daylight, we figured we'd head for Vegas.
Rolled through Vegas and got to State Line around 8 or so... sun wasn't even down, and we looked at each other and were like "Do we want to blow $75 on a hotel for a 4-hour ride home in the morning? Nahh... let's go home"
Got home at 11pm.
Typical local day rides will be a max of 300-350, but occasionally we'll do 400 or so. Honestly, unless I've gone 250, I don't feel like I've been riding.
I'll do 100, half twisties half slab, just warming up the engine for an oil change
Of course, keep in mind my conditioning. I'm NOT a morning person, whether I get 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours of sleep, but once I'm up, I'm a machine. Breakfast, dinner, and other than that, maybe 6 bottles of water and a sports drink on hot days. My normal work day could mean a 200 mile drive, 6-8 hours of work, and a 200 mile drive home. If it's an out of town multi-day job, I'll get as much done as I can 8-4 with the contractor, cut them loose, then continue with what work I can do without them as long as I have daylight as long as I don't need to close a lane... so a 14-16 hour day is done without a 2nd thought (what else am I gonna do, sit in the hotel room and stare at HBO?)... then back to the room to log in and file my daily paperwork, catch up on the forums, and in bed around 1am.... up at 5 to repeat the next day.
I can roll on 4 hours sleep a night for about a week before I need to take a "down" day to recover.