When riding long distances I don't even get off the bike for fuel stops anymore - less temptation to get distracted or whatever that way unless there's a reason to need to get off - bathroom, coffee, or food.
When I did my aforementioned SS1000 with another very hardcore riding buddy we actually ate on the move as well - I packed sandwiches in a tank bag and it worked well. The longest we actually stopped the entire trip was about 15 minutes in Sault Ste Marie to grab a coffee and both use the bathroom.
Yeah yeah, I know the safety implications of eating while riding, I certainly don't make a habit out of it...but a sandwich cut in half's is pretty easily manageable. I wasn't trying to balance a three course meal on my tank or anything.
I did the electronic submission on the IBA site so I documented everything extremely well and also had Spotwalla (a GPS tracking app that is recognized and recommened by the IBA) running on a separate phone in my saddlebags. The Spotwalla tracking link is actually still valid, I just checked.
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It was interesting to see exactly how far off my bikes odometer was off over the entire trip. Here was my beginning and ending mileages according to my odometer:
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And during the IBA cert application I had to calculate the exact same trip by Google Maps for the "Calculated" mileage - it came out to 1798KM give or take a few KM for our fuel stops and such, so my bikes odometer over that distance was actually ~110KM optimistic over 1800KM.
It goes to show you exactly how far off some bikes speedo's can actually be.
My bike has been pretty busy since then LOL.
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