What's the longest trip you've ever done on a motorbike?

[Benno]

Not just longest single A to B style trip, but also multi-day trips? Tours?

Picture related for me. Orange circles indicate where I camped, usually due to exhaustion (I would just set up the hammock and pass out in it with my leathers still on), H means hammock and T means tent.

Over the time I owned the GPZ500 I put 10,000 miles on it, over half of them were with this trip!

https://i.imgur.com/4wfEp4d.jpg
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[Sable]

450 odd miles in 1 day on my little 125. Had a ride up to and around Norfolk. Did a lot of motorways / dual carriageways up there and back. Yawwwwn.

Would like to go for a proper tour somewhere someday.

[Dave70]

That's a nice bit of riding you've done there.

Hope to do something similar in the next year or two myself.

Currently though, the longest distance I've done was Heysham to Liverpool. Although, I once done about 320 miles in one day on the Isle of Man. I would have gone further but, I kept hitting water in every direction.

[stinkwheel]

I visited all these points on my Bullet in a single journey without returning home (see link in sig).

https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/rbr/tourmap.png
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[chickenstrip]

Two long ones spring to mind, although a) I don't know what mileages they were, and b) I know of people who've done much more in one hit, as I'm sure there'll be people here who have too.

Gutersloh, northern Germany, to Le Mans in about '90/'91, FZR1000EXUP.

Loch Leven, then a circuit of Ben Lawers, then down to Broxbourne, Herts, 2010, Fazer 1000.

Both done in one hit each.

The Le Mans trip I did with the grand total of a sleeping bag for luggage

Hopefully, a good 3 weeks Euro tour this year, if the fkn summons doesn't fall right in the booked dates

Longest overall trip I've done to date was the 2010 UK tour, about 3000 miles in 3 weeks, so nothing really to shout about.

[-Matt-]

That is a seriously impressive spread of countries Benno would love to get round to something like that soon. Hoping this summers BCF trip will spur me onto something big in the next year or two over in Europe.

How many nights were you away in the end - presuming some of the stops required hotels unless you only slept 4 nights during the whole trip ?

Edit- Stink how come you didn't goto lands end after all that !

[chickenstrip]

I'm gonna enjoy this thread Benno

Stinkwheel, is there any UK road you didn't ride on your trip?!

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[tatters]

2 Months riding mostly offroad across Canada has been the longest so far though technically I,m still on the trail.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=271504

Also 1 Month riding across Scandinavia/Russia/Europe. Another 1 Month across Europe/Ukraine/Russia And four 2 week trips in Morocco riding offroad.
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[Marmalade]

I've done a few but memorable ones.

2900 miles around 12 european countries in 5 days

Albufiera, portugal to caen, france 1200 miles in 36hrs

salisbury to peterborough to Berlin 900 miles 16hrs

and Lands end to John o groats in 16hrs.
It would have been quicker but it was torrential rain 90% of the way and we stopped for meals and stuff just to get a break from it.
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[-Matt-]

[tatters]

[-Matt-]

Shame the picture links are dead'd

How far into/across Russia did you go - Did you have any problems along the way particularly or similar to travelling in most of Eastern Europe?

[Eddie Hitler]

Norwich to Plymouth, leaving at 8pm. Was on my old yellow FZR600 91'. Considering it was a small bike, and I'm a tall lady (I mean bloke..), it wasn't too bad. I did get leg cramps regularly though.

Also, when I returned a few days later, it rained the whole way. I was wearing a 1 piece leather suit. .

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[Eddie Hitler]

I found a picture from that trip. I took a wrong turn and ended up on an awesome single track road. I miss that bike. Looked like shit but never let me down.

https://i.imgur.com/r1oTIQ7.jpg

[J biker]

Around 3600 miles in 8 days.

But, the last day, well 23.5 hours including ferry (Calais/Dover) I did 1152 miles. That was from Austria to Consett in Co Durham. Took a week to recover.
FZ1s.

[Benno]

[-Matt-]

[stinkwheel]

[-Matt-]

Did they stash the rest in body-pouches do you know or are they savvy enough to check that kind of stuff so better off burying it inside fairing/luggage.

Shame the most interesting countries to visit are usually the most corrupt and dodgy

[tatters]

[-Matt-]

Bloody hell

Will need a pretty big budget for whenever I plan this trip it seems

Cheers for the info, definately won't be going on the current bike in either case - and might detour around Ukraine as it currently stands

[-Matt-]