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Old 06-08-2009, 04:58 PM   #51
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I'd love to do a trip and hit a lot of states and have a lot of forum members do short jaunts of it with me. I think that would be an absolute blast.
It is. That's what I've been doing for 5 years now. That might be why the Busa has 53k on 'er!
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:18 PM   #52
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You speak from experience. We are hoping to do a trip up to maine this fall or next spring if you want to join.
need to talk to osp, he might be down too
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:23 PM   #53
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Awesome. I need to meet that guy sometime anyway. I'll try to get the other guy who is doing these with me on TWF.
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Tell me when you do the ND, MN, WI trip. I'd like to join if you and your friend aren't opposed.
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Old 06-09-2009, 10:40 AM   #55
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Very true. We were looking last night, as Vermont and Maine were the only two states in the continental US my friend hasn't been to on a bike, and Maine is only 23.5 hours from us. It'd take a little longer for Washington, but 90% of the US. is within a day of me. We talked about taking that train from KC to Cali with the bikes, riding across the US, then coordinating with one of the guy's friends who is a trucker about shipping the bikes back and we'd just fly.

Hell, LA to jacksonville is just under 2500 miles. Not impossible. Not easy, but not impossible.
You're fucking crazy. Only 23.5 hours???? I get 20 miles into a ride and my back is begging me to stop.
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You're fucking crazy. Only 23.5 hours???? I get 20 miles into a ride and my back is begging me to stop.
It was funny on this trip. It was me on my R1, a 28 year old on a Concourse 14 and a 36 year old on a Bandit 1200 and I was the one in the least pain still.

If you push through the pain one time, you will be good to go for hours.
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It was funny on this trip. It was me on my R1, a 28 year old on a Concourse 14 and a 36 year old on a Bandit 1200 and I was the one in the least pain still.

If you push through the pain one time, you will be good to go for hours.
Wait a few years. You'll change your tune.
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Old 06-11-2009, 04:04 PM   #58
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Wait a few years. You'll change your tune.
Some people just suck it up and deal better.

I have a few 1000 mile days under my belt, more 700 and 800 mile days than I can count, and a Iron Butt Bunburner. My most recent 1000 mile day was 3 weeks ago. Oh yeah, I'm 37. How much longer should I wait before it's time to change my tune?
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Some people just suck it up and deal better.

I have a few 1000 mile days under my belt, more 700 and 800 mile days than I can count, and a Iron Butt Bunburner. My most recent 1000 mile day was 3 weeks ago. Oh yeah, I'm 37. How much longer should I wait before it's time to change my tune?
Easy, grandpa. I did 150 Sunday...I paid for it. I could barely walk the rest of the day. No fucking joke. And that was with the freshly installed "S" pegs...which are an inch lower. I'm about at the end of my rope with sportbikes.
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Some people just suck it up and deal better.

I have a few 1000 mile days under my belt, more 700 and 800 mile days than I can count, and a Iron Butt Bunburner. My most recent 1000 mile day was 3 weeks ago. Oh yeah, I'm 37. How much longer should I wait before it's time to change my tune?
Yeah, but you're not normal.

BTW, you can post here, but you can't respond to my text?
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