Just did some math, around 39 fill ups in total. This is gonna be really fun or I'll never try it again lol
Oh, only have full leathers now, bad idea for a 33 hour ride I suppose? lol
You will have to have a very odd idea of "fun".
Kid just did 21 days on his FZ-08 with this set up.
Economics on 7,000 km
About 450 litres of fuel...approx $540
1/2 set of sport tires $200
7 motel nights. $700
Food etc even eating at McD's $200
Things like sprocket and chain wear etc all add up.
Call it $1600
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Versus fly the bike to Vancouver $1900 and that's round trip for you and the bike.
Same for Calgary. At least with Calgary or Van you can ride some of the Rockies, catch Banff, Jasper and Bow Valley
http://www.bestbikingroads.com/moto...es-in-canada-/british-columbia--___13400.html
To do 1,000 km days you have to be up at sparrows and be willing to push hard all day til late in the evening, then do it again and again and again and that's figuring on little construction and no weather slow downs.
Having just come 3200 km from Yellowstone to Mississauga in 4 days...I can tell you you will have both tho we avoided most of the weather.
Plus we had S Dakota speed limits of 130 kph to help....you won't get that on the Canadian route.
Took me 50 years of riding to get around to a cross country....you gonna do it, do it right and include riding the Rockies.
Because there were two of us motel costs were split ( in theory
and if you travel in the US meals are often so huge one is enough for both.
My thinking for the future is that a person can fly the bike to Vancouver. Ride 99 north ( one of the best rides ever for me....both scenic and way fun ) to the Yellowhead, across to Jasper and Banff then southern Rockies, and do Yellowstone ( not on a weekend ), Beartooth Pass, Rushmore ( marginal ), Badlands and ride home in 16 days. ( two weeks plus the extra weekend ).
Beartooth was a total highlight....miles and miles of sweeps and twists leading to 11,000 feet.
Leave on Saturday morning on the early flight and be riding by 10 am Vancouver time up the Sea to Sky Highway along the coast.
Doing it again we would have skipped Vancouver Island and the Inside Passage ferry for more riding in the Rockies especially the southern part as the map shows, tho sneaking into Alaska was fun.
It's the lower Rockies in Canada and the states where all the action is....just don't do Yellowstone on a weekend
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Do it ....but do it smart.
