hey all - I am trying to plan my next summers trip with my brother and we were thinking of riding to San Francisco from our home in Minneapolis, MN. It is just over 2000 miles and I figure we can do it in 2 days or at least less than 2 and a half days. I base this on how we rode during our trip to Colorado this past summer - we were told to plan only to ride about 500 to 600 miles a day and that would be grueling - turns out the first day we made it to Sterling, CO which is just under 900 miles and we were very willing and able to go the rest of the way to Colorado Springs or at least the 2 hours to Denver but the sun was going down so we stopped for the night. We would plan on winging it to San Francisco, and IF we feel a second day of 1000 miles is getting hard we could pull off 600 the second day and do the final 400 the third day.

So, my question is this - if we can do it physically, would back to back 1000 mile days be too hard on the bike? Any tips???

Thanks

 

It's a bike, not a horse....You ain't gonna hurt it.

 

Nope. As long as you're moving, and air is getting across those fins, and you have plenty of oil,....no sweat.

~Joe

 

I can understand wanting to get to your destination quickly but what's the rush? There's so much beautiful country between MN and SF.

Back to back iron butts would be pretty harsh, I would think. How about 800, 700, 500?

 

Highway touring is the easiest miles you'll put on the bike. Keep it full of oil and it'll damn near run for ever.

 

Hmm, I was curious about this too, especially on a very new bike (under 5k miles.)

I was under the impression that hours and hours of running at the same RPM would lead to an asymmetrical wear pattern on internals ? At least until broken in to a little looser tolerance.

Is there no substance to this at all ?

 

Hell, at 5k the motor is broke in, ride it all day as far as you like.

 

Pack a tire patch kit and roll on. These things are built to take it.

 

+1. Motor is ready....your *** is gonna hate it though.....

~Joe

 

Ride baby ride....Highway miles is pretty easy on a bike...Fresh oil would be a plus before you leave that way you won't have to screw with it during the trip.