Weather where you are?

San Francisco to Vancouver on the SFC and Monaco to the UK also on the SFC
Detroit to I forgot the town in Colorado on a 1000 RS BM, 1700miles in 36 hours with a few breaks along the way.
Did quite a few long days on the SF2 back in the day. The Nullabore is a good place to do long days. !000 miles no worries
 
I am watching reruns of Walking The Nile, happy to see someone else walk across The Sahara Desert. Looking forward to the club BBQ on Sunday though.
 
In order to achieve such high daily output, you need well-developed roads or highways. I only use those to get out of the city or to drive around a metropolitan area.

Today, when I plan routes, I pay a lot of attention to a good balance. As a rule, I orient myself to appr. 7h saddle time and adjust my daily leg plans accordingly.

Of course one can do more, but for me it's the treshhold where fun decreases. From the kilometer eaters point of view I now may appear to be a "wuss" ...
:cool:

Cheers,
Jo
 
Did three return trips to Brisbane in one year on my SF2, three of the legs in one day before I started leaving at lunch time (instead of 5 am) so that I wouldn't fall into the trap of pushing it because it was a precedent. Over 1700km back then in ´86, a bit less now with motorways some of the way. I had a 2" hunk of Dunlopillo foam on the seat (the trick Quentin and I used for two day Melb/Perth trips), and a sleeping bag stuffing the tank bag full so that I could rest all my weight on it. A fun ride to run my mates workshop while he was away as mechanic for a race team. We do 12 hour days here in Norway on our summer rides, but all on twisty roads, that amount of time welded in one position on freeways would be impossible for me now.
 
Legs said:
Nine here in the Adelaide Hills and expecting some shitty weather, time to light the fire and hit Netfix as well, there's bugger all on the box.
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Oh, I watched a gooden on Netflix last night. About a bloke (Secret Service) that was set up for the attempted hit on the US President (Morgan Freeman) while fishing. Can't remember the name of it, but it was pretty good.
 
Feel for North America's west coast, 46c in British Columbia 😮 , those temperatures are killers in Australia, and we are used to them.
If you aren't used to that sort of heat, be careful and hydrated. If you can't get cool drink about a litre of water an hour and stay away from the fizzy drinks.
 
Legs said:
Feel for North America's west coast, 46c in British Columbia 😮 , those temperatures are killers in Australia, and we are used to them.
If you aren't used to that sort of heat, be careful and hydrated. If you can't get cool drink about a litre of water an hour and stay away from the fizzy drinks.
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Worked in Bourke, 49c in the shade. The gonnads were wet and tacky all day!
:) Cold beers in the motel pool after work cooled the boys off nicely. :sneaky:
 
Legs said:
Feel for North America's west coast, 46c in British Columbia 😮 , those temperatures are killers in Australia, and we are used to them.
If you aren't used to that sort of heat, be careful and hydrated. If you can't get cool drink about a litre of water an hour and stay away from the fizzy drinks.
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It is full on Australian weather here in British Columbia. Another new record of 47.5 degrees. It was only low 40's where I'm at but it was still 30 degrees up at 7000 feet elevation. Next big worry is the rapid snow melt up high may cause some flooding.

Jim
 
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