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Sat Feb 18, 2023 7:06 pm
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #15Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #13Zitat von paleolithictech im Beitrag #11 maybe we do, only she has not old Lee...
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Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #13Zitat von paleolithictech im Beitrag #11 I will start early e.g. if I know I have 400 miles to do (which is a long way in time on European congested roads, especially if a crossing of the English Channel is involved, that can eat up 2 hours even via the tunnel due to border checks). I would normally skip the hotel breakfast and stop after an hour or two for breakfast and fuel. That's a rare event nowadays and was last done in 2018 when I did 530 miles including a Channel Tunnel crossing from Germany. That was horrible, passing through some of the most densely populated conurbations in Europe. The rest of my group, 3 couples, were all retired and took a more leisurely route home from the Harz Mountains.
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Just took a few days to ride to a research meeting. Currently sitting in a session daydreaming about the road back home.
“A good man always knows his limitations.”
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fact check .... steamboat springs to ontario oregon 747 miles plus about a 100 more for missed turn and other detours, different route with a lot of two lane highways up around Flaming Gorge res ... I believe now the speedo said 851 that day .... not 950 ... in spite of what you might think it was a leisurely ride stopping often and took about 20 to 21 hours .... all night on highway 84 ..... nothing but hells angels out riding motorcycles in the middle of the night ....
larry l langford
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Like some others have said, will start early if there is a need to get to a ferry, and have knocked out the odd 400 mile day on motorways when making the dash for a ferry in Spain, massively boring as we all know. But once 'on tour' or in the UK around 200 miles is what I usually aim for, preferring a more leisurely breakfast and start, and a relaxing evening. My Scotland trip is only to the south, plan to head up and stay in the Lakes on route, before going to Dumfries and Galloway, then back south via borders, Kielder, North Pennines and Yorkshire Dales. |
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Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #21 I did that only in reverse. D&G & the Borders are fantastic. Pop into the Forest of Bowland on your way to the lakes. Some great roads such as the Trough of Bowland, then over the top of Quernmore and the road from Dunsop to Bentham that goes over the amusingly named Moor Cock https://goo.gl/maps/M2RibZe4NSz627ZX8
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Like a number of replies I only work on hours. If you are using myrouteapp (MRA) to plan your trip you must ensure you are using the correct planning map. MRA has 3 options 'open street view (OSV)', TomTom and Here (which is Garmin). These can be found in the dropdown menu on the top left. These can give substantially different trip times for example on a day ride OSV gave 5h 44m, TomTom 6h 58m and Hear 7h13m. A further complication is when loading a route onto my Nav V the Here time can increase by roughly 10%. I am not a fast rider but progressive and would say I am on the fast side of average. I find the MRA Here times a good guide and could never achieve the OSV times. |
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