What's your longest trip on a small cc bike?

2.3efi

2.3efi

Been Around the Block
I thought it would be fun to share some grueling trips on some small cc bikes.

I clocked 800 miles on my 360 cafe going to Mid Ohio Vintage days. Spent 2 days riding through rain just missing a tornado.
I plan on doing it all again this summer!

Here is the bike way overloaded before I set off.
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This was the bike on the way back after my custom rear fender and towel seat pad.
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Awesome! Mine was about 400km on my little Aprilia RS125, in my Avatar. Went from Goulburn to Bathurst via Taralga and Oberon, here in NSW Australia. Loved it.

Next I had a little CBR250R ('88 model with 45hp @ 16,250rpm) and it was a screamer! Got about 90mpg doing 80mph on the freeway, and would top out at a breathtaking 110mph. Loved screaming it around and regularly did longer trips on it to see my father - he lives about two hours away. Still hold my record of 1hr 30min for the trip on that bike.

Here're a few pics of the Aprilia:

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- boingk
 
That aprilia is hot. Good to see people doing longer rides on cafes, I want to get a gopro and head out on the bikes up PCH or something, see how far we make it. It's reassuring other 360s are up for the task, now I just have to get mine ready as well.
 
Well not technically small displacement bikes but they were 40 years old... ;)

4 of us took a 1300 mile tour in 4 days around Lake Huron a few years back on our Kawasaki triples.
Probably one of the best rides I've been on with my ole smoker! :)
This is a link to a video that one of the guys made. (1/2 hour long)

http://youtu.be/2iZGk-7ft9k

Here we are waiting for the ferry to Manitoulin Island

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If it wasn't for a cheap Chinese shock, there wouldn't have been any mishaps...

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I once borrowed my daughter's Suzuki GZ250 to ride from Philadelphia to Johnson City, Tennessee to do some twisty mountain roads with some Harley riding friends. They all thought I was nuts, but in the twisties, I hung with the fast group. The ride home was 580 miles, and I covered it in 12 hours. Ran the piss out of that little bike. I literally ran that bike for hours on end with the throttle at the stop.

I've also taken some long trips on my '81 Suzuki GS450. A couple years ago, I rode it to Utah and back, (total about 5,800 miles,) and later in the year to New Orleans and back. That was around 2,800 miles.
 
I rode 400 mile overnight round trip 2-up with my wife on my 81 CM400. We were probably 100 lbs over the max capacity of the bike and I could manage 65-70 for short periods on the freeway the few times I had to take it. Was an awesome trip and we had a blast. She went from not wanting me to have a bike to "I think we need a bigger bike to do this more often" Now we have the GL1000 and it makes for more comfortabel trips. We just got her a nice riding jacket for Christmas this year. Now if I can just get her to learn to ride her own.....
 
I drove my 83 450 Nighthawk from Nackawic to Grand Manan Island and back passing through Moncton 5 or so years ago. Just over 1800 kms that week. Found some great back roads! It was one of my favorite vacations yet! I can't wait to put her on the road again this summer!
 
Hey Axlecrypt, I am in Woodstock, are you in Nackawic? I had a CM400 that I put a 450 in that I sold last year to buy a fridge, current ride is a 79 GL and I am rebuilding an 82 CX this winter. If you are close we should go on a ride this spring. Been looking for riding and wrenching buddies closer than Pittsburgh.

Cheers,

Maritime
 
2.3efi said:
That's scary, the trip looks like a blast though!
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It wasn't so bad really... The bike just dropped in the ass a couple inches.
It would have been scary if the other one broke though!

The trip was an absolute blast!! I hope to do something like it again soon!
As funny as it sounds, I'll probably get a sheep skin cover for my seat for the next tour... My profiled seat might look the biz (imo) but not really practical for long trips like that.
 
that's awesome!

I've never been on a longer ride than 200mi. I hope to change that some day and do a coast to coast and back on a bike eventually. I've done tons a car road trips which are always fun, but a bike would be better.
 
Thanks. I used PVC pipe cut in half and plumbing insulation around the bicycle frame with exhaust clamps to hold it to the rack. A zip tie to hold the pedel to the rack to stop it from rotating. I had people taking my picture on the highway...
 
Garage Rat
Love the bicycle on back!

Maritime
I am just up the road from you. We should get together for coffee. Talk about how much winter sucks when all you want to do is ride! *sigh* I think i'll go stick a wrench on something. Maybe the Nighthawk, dream of summer sun...
 
In 1978, when I was young and foolish yet (say that quickly 10 times!) I rode a 1974 Kawasaki 500 triple (2-stroke) from about an hour north of Portland, OR to Tijuana, Mexico and back over the course of about a week. Kind of like riding a 45 horse vibrator.

In 2008, I rode my vintage 1975 Yamaha DT-400 about 1,300 miles (50-50 gravel/asphalt) from Monticello, UT to Port Orford, OR, mostly along the Trans America Trail. (We did the section from Tulsa, OK to Monticello, UT in 2007 and the eastern section, from the Beach at Kitty Hawk, NC to Tulsa, OK in 2009.)

This is the DT:

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6 gallon fuel capacity . . . These are kind of like 30 HP vibrators. :)

I also did a couple of laps from Portland, OR to Reno, NV on an 82(?) KZ-440 LTD. that was the most comfortable ride of the three.

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Walms said:
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Walms, is that your bike?
Off topic but... GSXR footpegs from the same era will slip right into those 'busa brackets, and looks tons better. I replaced them on my '02 'busa and only had a few people notice the change. It looks like a "factory upgrade".

As for small displacement trips... I've only been about 100 miles round trip on my 40 y/o 250cc 2stroke. Only because I'm running premix and that's as far as a tank would carry me. But a good friend of mine has ridden from southern Louisiana to Sturgis South Dakota on a '72 Honda Trail70 modified with a Lifan 125 (or 175 I forget which). It was something like 2500 miles on blue highways.
 
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