Longest non stop ride.

[sixtring74]

Hi Guys I just thought I'd start a little thread for those of you that have shown true endurance on the back of your bikes.

Last year whilst on my road trip around Europe it was cut short due to a family illness so I rode 940 miles from the foots of Andorra to my house in the uk in under 21 hours (including ferry crossing time) on my Africa Twin. The only time I stopped was for petrol as I was against the clock for the last ferry. Sadly each time I stopped my tomtom told me I wasn't going to make it so had to make the time up. The bike was fantastic (but don't need to tell you that), and was the best journey I've had, which included a jammy police escort through a huge tail back on a french motorway. A near death experience coming face to face with dustbins blowing around on the road and escaping death at the hands of a giant (he was even bigger than Chad) in a service station who wasn't too please with me flicking him the bird after nearly knocking me of the bike. That aside everything turned out well apart from my poor ar*e but I won't go into that.

Do post your stories. They'll be good to hear.

[raymo]

mine was to catch a ferry to..
Norway.. I had planned a two week tour with my son as pillion, but with work commitment only had a week.. so it was burgen to Trondhiem day one then the artic circle next day.. camped checked tyre next day rear completely shreaded.. dumb dumb.. sports tyre two up loads a luggage 600S bandit.. bugger. Carol Nash to the rescue.. picked up latter that day and taken to Fauske... even further north. got tyre next day bike ready a 1500 Friday mmm ferry from Burgen 1500 Sat..
set off ... long night arrive to join the back of the que at Burgen 1430.... weather was foul and I was soaked to the skin .. kept me awake... fuel coffee.. no breaks... mission, real mission.. but something me & my son will alway remember.. having some thing that valuable on the back of the bike kept me awake and safe too..

GPS lost power but I think its 850-900 miles and there was no motorway...
a few whskeys and sleept like a log on the ferry..

I am really lookinf forward to the longway down.. hopefully I will enjoy this one ha sick eh
ray

[Austin]

Longest literally non-stop wasn't recently but when I was student - I used to regularly ride Plymouth to/from home in shropshire literally non-stop. 235miles or so on a BMW r45 and I still hadn't gone on reserve.

[bandi]

1100 km, Bucharest - Vienna in about 14 hours. the heroic part comes from riding a 250cc Yamaha DragStar at that time...

[bluevfrrider]

1440 miles from Montenegro to Amsterdam ferry on my VFR 800 had daughter on the back and got caught speeding on German autobahn

[Jacqueslemac]

1,000 miles from Austria back to the UK in 28 hours. It was an aircooled flat-twin but had four wheels.

I've decided that long distances like that are not for me any more.

[Slimie]

Originally Posted by Jacqueslemac

1,000 miles from Austria back to the UK in 28 hours. It was an aircooled flat-twin but had four wheels.

I've decided that long distances like that are not for me any more.

Which Citroen?

Simon

[Jacqueslemac]

Originally Posted by Slimie

Which Citroen?

Simon

This one:

[Slimie]

Sweet AK, what's her name??

-Simon

[Jacqueslemac]

"Orange van"! (I don't tend to name any of them.) I sold it in May after nine years of ownership. It was equipped and decorated like a narrow boat inside.