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Your loooongest ride.

On 2 wheels specifically, the furthest point ever was Devils Tower Wyoming.

I was one of the 10 people out of the 200,000 participants at Sturgis that year that actually rode to and from vs trailering there. 😄
 
Wingboy said:
Two years ago. 22,000km 2 months. See this thread. Where's Wingboy?View attachment 70612
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It is my dream to one day set off on a two or three month (or heck, 5-6 month) adventure like this with no real plan, just going wherever the wind takes you with a general idea of places you want to see.

As soon as I hit pension 6/49 I’ll get right on it. Or retire, assuming I’m still physically healthy enough to do a trip like this once those years arrive. And my wife is also interested of course lol.
 
Fuzzbuster said:
Timmins! In 2002? Went there to dispute a speeding ticket that I had received earlier in the year while driving up there for business. Cop didn't show, though I wasn't coming, judge was ******!
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Down to the Barber museum in Alabama and back for the Vintage motorcycle show & races.
On the way down we saw Scranton, Wheels through Time, Dollywood, The Tail of the Dragon, Atlanta, and the Barber Museum & area.
On the way back we went through Memphis, Bowling Green (Corvette museum), Cleveland (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), and Buffalo (Anchor Bar for wings).
 
Small potatoes compared to some here, but this is my longest tour AND the furthest from home I've gotten on a bike. Some pretty insane roads in NorCal and eastern Oregon, though...

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Priller said:
Small potatoes compared to some here, but this is my longest tour AND the furthest from home I've gotten on a bike. Some pretty insane roads in NorCal and eastern Oregon, though...

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Nice. My intention 2 years ago was to go from BC down the west coast. But the temps down south were crazy hot. So i headed east for the smokies.
 
Wingboy said:
Nice. My intention 2 years ago was to go from BC down the west coast. But the temps down south were crazy hot. So i headed east for the smokies.
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Probably the right decision for the time. I did this one in late August, and spots in California and Oregon were quite toasty. I only dipped into California, too, just the top third and turned around before it got really nuts in San Francisco. You got lots of highlights for the PNW still...
 
Gaoler said:
What's the most distant point you have piloted your bike from your garage/home/regular parking spot..?
Whether it took a day, a week, a month or longer... How far has it been away from home.
Me... roughly 4200km from my house to Penticton BC. 4x
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Furthest from home: 4,336km (Ventura CA to Markham ON.) 4 days.

Longest continuous trip: 14,520 (Toronto->Vancouver - Tijauna - Atlanta - Toronto (and lots in between) 32 days.
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Longest days
back to back 950 km on the Burgman 650 Exec with the Daylong seat coming down from The James Bay Road

Longest trips
Flew the bikes to Vancouver with my son, rode around BC then back through Glacier Nat'l Park, Yellowstone and home...would have to map distance

Then similar trip but solo- flew CB500x to Calgary, rode to Vancouver and then across to Banff and up to Jasper. Home via the Northern Trans Canada when I was 70.

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Ontario felt forever long on that trip.
Nothing noteworthy since cept Pickle Lake during Covid
...at 77 a 400 km day now is a reach.
 
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Longest ride was out west as far as Yosemite National Park from home. It was 2 weeks and 10,049 km. Years after I seemed to be pulled West to Idaho, eastern Oregon and Colorado those tended to be in the 8,000 km range. All on the Honda ST1100 that I have now. It gave me the long distance travel bug. But I don’t think I can do an IB run like some of you hard A$$s here.
 
To be honest. If i were to do a big trip again, the same as the one i posted, it would be a lot different. Those 22,000km would take me probably double the time.I did it because Neil Peart did it. I had a lot of invites from strangers to stay with them on that trip, but always turned them down (mistake) because i was tired of grief. Met an elderly couple in Wash state that wanted me to stay with them in thier Tacoma home. I wish i had. They had just lost thier son.
It's all about the people you meet.
I ran away from grief, and when i rolled the Tenere into my garage at the end of it, i couldn't go into the house. Grief was still there. I'm better now.

Beer me.
 
This route I did over 5 days during Covid and stayed at my friends place in middle BC, then made my way south to Richmond to visit my sis. Then rode around the island and then through the interior of BC before heading back to Mississauga. First time riding to and from BC and loved every minute of it.1729902477478.png
 
shanekingsley said:
This route I did over 5 days during Covid and stayed at my friends place in middle BC, then made my way south to Richmond to visit my sis. Then rode around the island and then through the interior of BC before heading back to Mississauga. First time riding to and from BC and loved every minute of it.
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What was this little dogleg about out of curiosity?

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It's all this stuff: Thunder Bay to Kenora, Unorganized
I've ridden out to Thunder Bay a few times, but had never ridden past it. So on that trip to and from BC, I rode all the paved roads between Thunder Bay and Kenora. They were pretty interesting with very fast sweepers, zero traffic, some nice scenery and long stretches between gas stations or anything for that matter. The ride from Kenora through Sioux Narrows was really beautiful and if you are ever out that way, I'd also suggest stopping in Fort Frances, which seemed like a neat town to stay the night.
 
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