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Ha! I don't think I could keep up with your 250 hp viper! Bring a thermos of hot coffee so you have something to occupy yourself with while you wait for me to catch up!
 
Vilas said:
Ha! I don't think I could keep up with your 250 hp viper! Bring a thermos of hot coffee so you have something to occupy yourself with while you wait for me to catch up!
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Well then your really gonna love what I've got this season!
 
Yamadog said:
But mostly like the run from Hurley to Copper Harbor and back.
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That's a long haul in a day. How long does it normally take you? Must be the turbo pushing you supersonic...
 
4StrokeAddict said:
That's a long haul in a day. How long does it normally take you? Must be the turbo pushing you supersonic...
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I have been doing that for years even before the turbo. It depends on the route but it can be a tick over 400 miles. Last time I left at 8 am and got back at 2 am on stopping to gas, eat & pee. I did it once on an RX-1 and could not walk for 2 days.
 
400 miles in a day; you are a machine! I when to tech and loved the trails in the Keweenaw. I've only experienced 2 days in 5 years that the trails were beat up there and that was a low snow year after one of the big runs, maybe winter carnival.
 
Back in the day I used to go to Greenland by Pat's Yamaha with the RX and a bunch of parts (skis, shocks & sway bars). It was 37 miles from one end to the other with nothing on the trail till it Teed up in Twin Lakes. I would hit the stop watch and go to the top make changes and then run it back. one time I did it 7 times for just over 518 miles in 1 session but it took almost 30 hours straight to do it. In 2005 I bought my first Apex, I did the 500 mile break in on it in one day. Changed the oil filter the next day and then totaled it 17 miles later :o|
 
Yamadog said:
Changed the oil filter the next day and then totaled it 17 miles later
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Ouch, sorry to hear that. I'm still impressed you are doing that kind of mileage in a day! We normally do 100 mile days which takes roughly 8 hours with pit stops, lunch, etc. We BS a lot and have someone with eye issues who sometimes has a hard time with depth perception. Most of them are also older... I think we stop around every 12 to 15 miles depending on trail, conditions and speeds.
 
Oh I have those days also especially when riding with buddies that never get away from their wives, or ever work on their sleds!!!! I ride alone a lot and have 1 or 2 buddies that are iron men, but I too am getting old now and at 53 I can only do those rides once or twice a season and only on the viper, anything else would kill me.

2 seasons ago I left Hurley at 8 am on my Pro r 800 SB cause the XTX had blown a motor and made it the whole way to Copper Harbor but could not make it back. I hurt so bad that I booked a room at the super 8 and stayed there 2 days.

It is still fun to ride with young kids in their 20's and at over 100 miles already in, turn north and when we stop I say lunch in Calumet? and their eyes get big and they say how far is that?
 
Yamadog you are a different breed! I don't think I've ever done over 150 in a day. I look for a lot of off road stuff, but even without that I don't think I could do 400 in a day!
 
Come along this winter I will show you the way! I am fat, old and lazy but can still do it.
 
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