Featured The First Of Hopefully Many More 1k Day Rides On The Master

Wowser, that’s a good ride. I’ve been down that east coast road a couple of times and it’s just awesome. (Well, most of NZ is awesome, especially the South Island). Dropped in at the Moeraki boulders and carried onto Invercargill then kind of clockwise through Te Anau, Doubtful Sound, Fox Glacier etc. Those roads don’t necessarily lend themselves to doing big miles so well done.

 

Wow that is a big ride in my estimation. Here in the UK I typically ride 100+ miles for a ride out, so well done to you.

 

No, and sadly I wasn't on two wheels. One day tho

 

The length of the route you drove is really impressive!
Last year I left at short notice because of a storm warning with my wife in the early evening at Lake Garda and drove in a night drive with our TIGERs just under 700 km. That was so far our longest route, which we drove only with 2 short stops.

 

I don't like highways and stick to the smaller, quiet, roads wherever possible, even when touring. So I usually average 50km/h and a typical 300km tour day is 6 hours riding. Maybe do 400km with some highway riding to cover the miles.

 

I'm really impressed, I had the speed triple out for its 1st start up for 5 months,, - 4deg and on the return they had dropped a ton of salt on the village roads, not happy ,the most uncomfortable 4miles I've done In a long time. 10mins riding =5hours getting the salt cleaned off

 

1000k wow
I did it once on my Tiger
Usual rides are around 400k

 

@Jacknzone:
I can only confirm your statement about the quality of the headlights of the TIGER. Since I am regularly on the road to the office before sunrise, they prove themselves incredibly.
Your long distances really impress me.
My wife and I will be traveling to the Côte d'Azur in June, but will make the trip 2 days to see some sights along the way in Italy. On our up to 10-day tours, we always "build in" certain rest days to recover and recharge our batteries in between.

 

I've turned into a real wimp as I've got older.
I used to ride 12 months of the year without thinking about it, hail rain and snow. Hot water bottles stuck inside my gear lol non of todays fancy kit.
I'm leaving off the bike for a couple of weeks now to wait till there's no more salt going down.
Booked to go to Isle of man in mid May so I just need to have some patience