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End to end
« on: 30 September 2015, 07:58:21 pm »
Anyone done it or fancy doing it
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Re: End to end
« Reply #1 on: 30 September 2015, 08:21:04 pm »
Anyone done it or fancy doing it
Ireland yes, Great Brittan no, but would love to, just to say I did. :)

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Re: End to end
« Reply #2 on: 30 September 2015, 08:52:34 pm »
Yes I've done it in a day. Left JOG at 4am rolled into LE at 8pm.

No, don't want to do it again.

Think there maybe a write up about it on here or a link to another forum where the write up is.

Found it.
Part 1.
http://fazer1000.yuku.com/topic/3198/Sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice-Part-1

Part 2.
http://fazer1000.yuku.com/topic/3211/Sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice-Part-2

Enjoy.
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Re: End to end
« Reply #3 on: 30 September 2015, 08:58:57 pm »
Do you mean doing it in one day/24 hrs/whatever? That doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Distance riding to me is about enjoying good roads and taking in the scenery and places of interest along the way. I don't like being under pressure to be somewhere or cover a certain distance in a limited time. Each to their own though.

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Re: End to end
« Reply #4 on: 30 September 2015, 09:12:14 pm »
Do you mean doing it in one day/24 hrs/whatever? That doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Distance riding to me is about enjoying good roads and taking in the scenery and places of interest along the way. I don't like being under pressure to be somewhere or cover a certain distance in a limited time. Each to their own though.

I know what you mean. It didn't appeal to me either half way through the day but it's ticked off on my wish list. It was also day four of an outstanding six day tour of the UK.
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Re: End to end
« Reply #5 on: 30 September 2015, 10:19:31 pm »
Done it on a VFR750 and my old Fazer, mate of mine did it on his C90 and we both did 1000 miles inside 24hrs on C90's in 2013.
He's on the Iron Butt site, took him 22hrs 12min.

 

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Re: End to end
« Reply #6 on: 30 September 2015, 10:36:56 pm »
Thing is I live right in the middle and so it would be like doing it twice cause its half way to get to the start and then another half to get back from the end
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Re: End to end
« Reply #7 on: 01 October 2015, 12:31:06 am »
Thing is I live right in the middle and so it would be like doing it twice cause its half way to get to the start and then another half to get back from the end
Its the same for everyone no matter where they live
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Re: End to end
« Reply #8 on: 01 October 2015, 08:27:43 am »
Thing is I live right in the middle and so it would be like doing it twice cause its half way to get to the start and then another half to get back from the end
Its the same for everyone no matter where they live

Sorry I should of added one of these -  :lol    ;)

My kids were moaning once about having to walk all the way around a lake and so I told them " ok instead we will only walk half way around and then come back" - they were happy with that !
 
« Last Edit: 01 October 2015, 08:30:05 am by fazersharp »
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Re: End to end
« Reply #9 on: 01 October 2015, 09:11:57 am »
Thing is I live right in the middle and so it would be like doing it twice cause its half way to get to the start and then another half to get back from the end
Its the same for everyone no matter where they live

I live 24 miles from lands end so would have to do twice the distance too lol  :lol
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Re: End to end
« Reply #10 on: 01 October 2015, 09:28:52 am »

Its the same for everyone no matter where they live

Its even worse if you live in the south east like some of us. You end up doing a tour of the whole country.
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Re: End to end
« Reply #11 on: 01 October 2015, 11:49:40 am »
Did it alone, four days from start to finish, would do it again, but not on that mobile bed of nails I sat on last time (ZX9RE1 seat)

Anybody fancy it next year?

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Those that haven't.....I've really focin done it now
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Re: End to end
« Reply #12 on: 01 October 2015, 12:50:03 pm »
I could do it but if it looks like rain im go'in home
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Re: End to end
« Reply #13 on: 01 October 2015, 01:40:47 pm »

Its the same for everyone no matter where they live

Its even worse if you live in the south east like some of us. You end up doing a tour of the whole country.

I lived in the south east when I did it. SE London. That's way I broke the trip up to JOG over three days and the trip back from LE over two days.
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Re: End to end
« Reply #14 on: 01 October 2015, 02:35:16 pm »
I'd love to do Le Jog, If only I could convince the missus :uhuh
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Re: End to end
« Reply #15 on: 01 October 2015, 02:41:27 pm »
Done it on a VFR750 and my old Fazer, mate of mine did it on his C90 and we both did 1000 miles inside 24hrs on C90's in 2013.
He's on the Iron Butt site, took him 22hrs 12min.


That is some achievement 1000 miles in 22hrs 12mins on a C90, declared top speed for a C90 is 50mph so that is an average speed of 45.0445 mph, amazing
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Re: End to end
« Reply #16 on: 01 October 2015, 02:55:27 pm »
Can we do it last Monday and we would be home and dry by today
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Re: End to end
« Reply #17 on: 01 October 2015, 03:59:52 pm »
i would be interested in doing it , but over a week , avoiding the motorway , leaving  from Bristol  heading North east ( not done that coast ) to JOG , then back down the west coast , heading into North wales then south heading for Cornwall and LE then back to Bristol ,  meeting up with others along the way . 

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Re: End to end
« Reply #18 on: 01 October 2015, 07:15:07 pm »
Would be much more interesting to do it avoiding Motorways, A road Motorways (eg. the A1(M)), tolls, ferries and major cities.

Will have to think about this and maybe take it on next year.

Going straight up is to easy and does not require a lot of thought.

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Re: End to end
« Reply #19 on: 01 October 2015, 07:19:37 pm »
I could do it but if it looks like rain im go'in home
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Can we do it last Monday and we would be home and dry by today
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Re: End to end
« Reply #20 on: 02 October 2015, 07:46:29 am »
i would be interested in doing it , but over a week , avoiding the motorway , leaving  from Bristol  heading North east ( not done that coast ) to JOG , then back down the west coast , heading into North wales then south heading for Cornwall and LE then back to Bristol ,  meeting up with others along the way . 

hey we could do it in a relay & maybe have a T-shirt that we signed as we handed it over .....hmmmmm  :lol 
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Re: End to end
« Reply #21 on: 02 October 2015, 08:55:55 am »
i would be interested in doing it , but over a week , avoiding the motorway , leaving  from Bristol  heading North east ( not done that coast ) to JOG , then back down the west coast , heading into North wales then south heading for Cornwall and LE then back to Bristol ,  meeting up with others along the way . 

hey we could do it in a relay & maybe have a T-shirt that we signed as we handed it over .....hmmmmm  :lol

And if we all hired Busa's for the day and all used our local road knollege to choose the fastest route we could get the end to end time record down to about 3:46:23 Even Fazersharp could join in........
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Re: End to end
« Reply #22 on: 02 October 2015, 11:26:07 am »
Awww thats nice of you to think of me 
So long as the next rider doesn't mind waiting until its dry
« Last Edit: 02 October 2015, 11:27:36 am by fazersharp »
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« Reply #23 on: 02 October 2015, 11:38:37 am »
Awww thats nice of you to think of me 
So long as the next rider doesn't mind waiting until its dry

I don't understand your fear of rain.....I mean your Mrs likes being wet............ :b
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« Reply #24 on: 02 October 2015, 12:36:09 pm »
I did my share of riding in the rain just over 30 years ago when I was 17 until I was 22. Had a long break from bikes whilst life got in the way, and started riding again 17 years ago and vowed never to ride in the rain again, after all its supposed to be fun and riding in the rain ain't no fun, and a wet crotch ant no fun --- unless as you pointed out is Mrs Fazersharp's 
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