11,000 miles in 11 days

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Curb

One of my customers does it every year. This years Iron Butt went from South Carolina to Seattle, WA. The kicker about these Iron Butt rides is that the all the participants have to start at the same location. So my customer who live down here had an 800 mile ride to the start point and a about a 3500 mile ride home for grand total of 15,300 miles which he did in a little over 2 weeks.

But did he do it on a sportster

I woul dthink after 3 or 4 days it would realy get tough. I have done a few 800 plus mile days and at the end of the day I am prety beat, not sure I would want to wake up and do it all over again.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by tommymac

But did he do it on a sportster

I woul dthink after 3 or 4 days it would realy get tough. I have done a few 800 plus mile days and at the end of the day I am prety beat, not sure I would want to wake up and do it all over again.

Yeah, by day three I'd be looking for a Hotel with a well stocked bar.

I used to be a rock climber, long time ago. Never had any interest in doing Everest though. Not my idea of fun.

JC

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Yeah, by day three I'd be looking for a Hotel with a well stocked bar.

I used to be a rock climber, long time ago. Never had any interest in doing Everest though. Not my idea of fun.

JC

I guess everyone has their limit. I want to get an iron butt patch more or less just because I want to. I like distance riding but doing it all on the slab is not fun either, gotta stop and smell the roses once in a while.

I saw some pics from the utah 1081 and it looks like htere are soem great roads and phenominal views there so I would rather take that in than be about making time and logging miles. I would do that part hammering through iowa and mid america LOL

[Curb]

Originally Posted by tommymac

But did he do it on a sportster

No, he does it on an old POS Triumph Trophy. But he did ride from Key West to Prudhoe Bay to Key West on a BMW GS650

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Curb

No, he does it on an old POS Triumph Trophy. But he did ride from Key West to Prudhoe Bay to Key West on a BMW GS650

Thats impressive, I think someone had the link for the guy who made it from alska to key west in 5 days and shattered the previous record. But he did it on an fjr that I am sure had some modifications to aid in distance riding.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Thats impressive, I think someone had the link for the guy who made it from alska to key west in 5 days and shattered the previous record. But he did it on an fjr that I am sure had some modifications to aid in distance riding.

I spent a few nights drinking with a guy named Peter Vangergernhoven (or something like that). I think he came in second or third of couple of years in the Iron Butt. His FJR had custom aluminum gas tanks all over it. Fucking thing was the Exxon Valdez of sport tourers.

He would ride 18 hours at a crack, sleep under a tarp for half an hour, (sleeping bags just slow you down) and then get back on the road.

Really nice guy.

Crazy as a shit house rat.

JC

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I spent a few nights drinking with a guy named Peter Vangergernhoven (or something like that). I think he came in second or third of couple of years in the Iron Butt. His FJR had custom aluminum gas tanks all over it. Fucking thing was the Exxon Valdez of sport tourers.

He would ride 18 hours at a crack, sleep under a tarp for half an hour, (sleeping bags just slow you down) and then get back on the road.

Really nice guy.

Crazy as a shit house rat.

JC

I have seen a few pics of the fjrs and some bmw's with all sorts of fuel cells on them, even in a car you wat to stop and stretch the legs after 3 or 4 hrs, couldnt imagine that on a bike.

I was reading the rules for getting an IBA patch for 1k miles in 24 hrs and it said you must stop every 350 miles or soemthing like that, figure these nuts with 7plus gallons of fuel can prolly go further than that anyway. I can stretch it to 200 on my futura but thats without the hard bags, and a puny 5 gallon tank.