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Post by tonynitrous on Jan 14, 2016 9:16:45 GMT
I've been invited to a wedding. It's just over 1000k (620 miles) South. It's in 2 weeks time.
1: Wife's going to that rules out the bike.
2: Flying down and hiring a car is do-able.
3: Wife's car doesn't have enough miles on it. It's a works / business vehicle so needs mileage to justify using it as a tax deduction. So.... it looks like a 1400+ mile trip is on the cards. Might need to take the Friday off and make it a long weekend.
We went to a wedding anniversary heading North last year. That was 1240k (770 miles) each way.
I like long days on the bike, but i quite like long drives too.
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Post by paddy on Jan 16, 2016 19:33:55 GMT
Bloody hell, my sciatica kicks in after 30-40 min driving. Not all the time but that's all that really aggravates these days. Could do it in the van, not sure about on the bike? Although I have spent almost all day on it (yes riding not sat on it making noises) but ithink my wrists would hurt more.
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Post by bigkenxx on Jan 16, 2016 19:40:36 GMT
Ha ha I did Manchester to Sweden then to Hamburg pick my mate from the airport drove to Barcelona to catch the ferry to Palma then to cal a dor back to Palma to Barcelona up through to Leon to Calais back to Manchester used to do that quite often also to Budapest pick cars up
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Post by tonynitrous on Jan 16, 2016 20:20:23 GMT
Looks like I'm driving down to the Wedding.
Looking forward to it.
One of my customers was buying quite a few new Ford Ranger pick-ups / utes from the local Ford dealer.
They had a bit of a falling out over the price. Customer was told try getting one cheaper elsewhere.
He found a cheap (new one) in Perth and got a cheap flight over. ( I wanted to fetch it myself )
It was a 4400k (2750 mile) drive home !!
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Post by bigkenxx on Jan 16, 2016 20:22:46 GMT
That's the ticket lol
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Post by paddy on Jan 16, 2016 20:35:48 GMT
I hope he drove back to that dealer and very smugly showed him the receipt.
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Post by tonynitrous on Jan 16, 2016 21:30:45 GMT
Yeah, I took it in for its first service.
Really wasn't worth the the time and effort to fetch it but he wanted to prove a point.
It looked pretty 2nd hand by the time he got it home,
covered in red dust and bugs etc. mad bugger!
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Post by bonzo on Jan 16, 2016 22:09:20 GMT
Furthest travelled. London to Newcastle by car. London to Nottingham by bike. London to New York by plane. All too long and boring  |
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Post by tonynitrous on Jan 17, 2016 4:19:31 GMT
I went for a drive North when I bought my Lancer.
Ended up at Daintree just past Port Douglas.
It was 1,780k's, bit over 1,100 miles.
Took me two days and I never even left Queensland.
Didn't look far on a map !
Done a few rides and drives down to Dubbi in NSW.
Went down to to a 4 hour job with work,
been to have a Saturday night in the pub with mates.
Dubbi is about 900k / 550 miles each way.
750k (460 miles) out with mates on Sportsbikes on a Sunday is quite normal.
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