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Post by russie on May 29, 2016 22:24:45 GMT 1
Just for fun, what's the longest trip you've done on your LC? Andrew12345s recent post about IOM got me thinking should a trip to the TT on my LC be added to my bucket list? Anyway, don't think I'll win this one with Inverness to Ullapool for chips and a pint (68 miles) being the best I can do!
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Post by 4l04ever on May 29, 2016 22:52:14 GMT 1
I went to La Rochelle and back. About 700 miles each way....
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Post by russie on May 29, 2016 22:54:41 GMT 1
I went to La Rochelle and back. About 700 miles each way.... Good effort. Think you may have just killed that one off! |
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Post by cb250g5 on May 29, 2016 22:56:29 GMT 1
Sussex to Uttoxeter for the VJMC show, to John O'Groats, back down the west coast, via Ullapool to Mallory, for a thrash round the track for the festival of 1000 bikes & home to Sussex.
Did a write up for the VJ magazine & the LC club mag.
On my YPVS engined LC, which Looey now has.
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Post by steve h on May 29, 2016 22:57:35 GMT 1
6 laps......
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Post by billbott on May 29, 2016 23:45:43 GMT 1
160 miles this afternoon.
Regularly done 500+ miles in a weekend at th Manx.
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Post by steven on May 30, 2016 0:44:13 GMT 1
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Post by spooch63 on May 30, 2016 0:54:49 GMT 1
Put the seat on mine today, no tank or engine yet and pushed it from one side of my workshop to the other making ringa ding ding noises with my missus looking on and trying to decide if I'd finally lost the plot !! Guess I'm not going to win this one !!  ? |
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Post by lcpete on May 30, 2016 8:11:58 GMT 1
Got back on Saturday from a trip to Mugello motogp on my 350LC. 2471 miles in 13 days, nudging 800 miles in the first 2 days. Will try and post some pictures shortly.
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Post by davey on May 30, 2016 12:07:55 GMT 1
Thats impressive , i think my longest in one hit on my 250 lc was 400kms, from Nice france to Genoa italy and back
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Post by alexx on May 30, 2016 14:37:22 GMT 1
not LC but F2, 4 (or 5) x +800km and one time 1100km, all in one day
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Post by leaky on May 30, 2016 15:20:34 GMT 1
In the 90s I rode from S. Wales to Barcelona and back on my standard 350lc.. 2500 miles all in. Did it over 4 weeks and via the Picos mountains in N. Spain and although she suffered a tad over 1000 metres, she did over 50mpg average! I did over a 1000 miles in a week last year on a trip with some 4 strokers to Lourdes, southern France riding my 31K hybrid, a bit frantic at times and really missed engine braking in the mountains  Love these bikes  |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 15:27:55 GMT 1
Wow those are some distances and some really interesting places
Beats the pants off me, Perth to Busselton and back 400kms in a day with lunch thrown in for good measure
The 1100 km in a day is very impressive, where was that done
I regularly drive 950 kms in a day and have done Derby to Perth which is 2500 in two days to do it on an RD is indeed some feat - awesome
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Post by russpuss on May 30, 2016 19:53:12 GMT 1
I did 1341 miles last year on a rd400C to the German 2 stroke rally and won the longest distance travelled award. I know it's not an LC but was a smoker all the same!
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Post by beardy on May 31, 2016 8:18:50 GMT 1
longest trip on my lc was a few weeks back. 440 miles to brussels and back over a weekend. i too averaged over 50mpg. mainly because i was with a load of old brit bikes and we ran at about 55mph. i was made to ride at the back because they were choking on 2 stroke smoke.
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Post by alexx on May 31, 2016 9:50:51 GMT 1
.. The 1100 km in a day is very impressive, where was that done .. Few years back, I think 2003/4 .. was going from Burgundy in France to Lurcy Levis for weekend 2T racing. Came there with +40 C* outside. Unfortunately Paul Richard is very near and that weekend was a F1 race. No way to find a place to sleep around. Got frustrated, took a (warm) beer from the bar on the circuit .. then took another. Then I was so pissed off that I took the bike on the road to ride back home, to The Netherlands. Sth like 800-900 km. Half drunk. Then I came to Paris and it's rondo .. but got home about 1h after the midnight. And could not sleep. Next day took my RD and rode to the north of Netherlands, 500-600km more. Just for fun. |
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Post by angus on Jun 1, 2016 13:23:01 GMT 1
What kind of speeds are you guys running on these really long days? 70-90km/h? 100-120km/h? Faster? Just wondering how the bike will like extended periods of highway riding (Canadian 100 series highway, so 100km/h "suggested" speed limits).
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Post by russpuss on Jun 1, 2016 14:03:34 GMT 1
What kind of speeds are you guys running on these really long days? 70-90km/h? 100-120km/h? Faster? Just wondering how the bike will like extended periods of highway riding (Canadian 100 series highway, so 100km/h "suggested" speed limits). A. I did 6 hours at 100-120 only stopping for fuel on the way back from Germany. |
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Post by russpuss on Jun 1, 2016 16:31:08 GMT 1
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Post by horace on Jun 1, 2016 20:12:09 GMT 1
A couple of years ago a mate and I set off from scarborough heading to the algarve via the Chanel tunnel, got as far as Le Mans by which time both head gaskets were playing up , so hired a car and dumped the bikes outside railway station , had gaskets posted to friends in Portugal , fixed them when we dropped car back off and road home no probs, worked out great in the end had a great time.
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Post by davey on Jun 2, 2016 8:37:41 GMT 1
I was wondering how much itime on the longer trips on this thread is spent on motorways .
Im never sure as to long runs on a motorway is good bad or indifferent on a 2 stroke
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Post by twostrokebrit on Jun 2, 2016 13:04:33 GMT 1
my butt/back not the bike was always the weak point in any long rides i have done.
about 400 miles in one day was my best on the LC350.
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Post by russie on Jun 2, 2016 19:44:13 GMT 1
What kind of speeds are you guys running on these really long days? 70-90km/h? 100-120km/h? Faster? Just wondering how the bike will like extended periods of highway riding (Canadian 100 series highway, so 100km/h "suggested" speed limits). A. Great question / point! Basically what you're asking your peers is 'Can you guys give me the green light to sit with the throttle wound full open for an hour at a time?' Seriously though, I'm interested in honest answers to that one too. 250LC I had back in the 80s just wouldn't stand it. Used to challenge myself to try and ride the 35 A-road miles to my girlfriends without rolling off the throttle except for junctions! Resulted in 3 rebuilds in the space of two years. Thank f#$k the bitch dumped me before I was bankrupt all together, lol! |
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Post by gb on Jun 4, 2016 21:04:20 GMT 1
I went to the man in the eighty's on rd 250 all my friends was on big fours I holed a piston on motorway one of them found a big piece of rope back of a truck at a service station he looked like a Michelin man coming down motorway it was wrapped round him so he wrapped rope round his body & I wrapped it round mine & he towed me to Liverpool not recommended when we got to ship everybody cheered, when he hit the throttle his ass went backwards & I went forwards it was dodgy ass f**k their was big dog ends off the knots bouncing off the motorway we nearly got to fighting as they was slagging my rd off as they all had the latest four strokes & I had put them out they wanted to throw it overboard, bet they wish they had it now,
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Post by steven on Jun 5, 2016 1:48:29 GMT 1
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Post by arrow on Jun 5, 2016 2:19:52 GMT 1
From Chester Cheshire to Hythe Hampshire, back in 1982. Hit an oak tree on the way down and only broke a mirror. Walked away, (rode away) happy days.
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Post by rdrob on Jun 5, 2016 8:26:39 GMT 1
700km's each way in 1982 on my L's sat on 80km for the first hour then ripped the l plate off and did the rest of the trip at 110km
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Post by billbott on Jun 5, 2016 9:47:11 GMT 1
My mates wife used to be a nanny for a couple in Salisbury.
She regularly rode there and back (from Bolton) on her RD400, most famously with a singer sewing machine bungee'd to the pillion seat.
She's still pretty cool now, rides a Ducati scrambler at 50+
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Post by rich on Jun 5, 2016 10:26:57 GMT 1
Rode my LC back to East Sussex from the BMF Peterborough one year. Often do the Ace Cafe and back in a day which is about 150 miles round trip.
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Post by stanlc7189 on Jun 6, 2016 1:05:24 GMT 1
In October 1980 I rode from Leeds to Hull, then Rotterdam to Opatija in Croatia, two up ( aroound 920 miles each way). Two overnight stops each way. I wouldn't even ride to Skeggy on my current LC now for fear of breakdown. The 1980 LC never missed a beat even when cruising at 90 mph along the Austrian trans alpine motorway.
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