Long Road Trip on GS500

[Jarno]

With the GS I've only ridden something like 400 km per day; Last thursday I got tasked to visit a customer by my boss while at work. Nice trip, other than the few rain showers (I *always* wear gore-tex riding gear) and heavy side-wind.

But I have to say that when you're driving longer stretches, I'd take a break after some 200km, or rather 2 hours. Longer than that and you're just plain stupid -and increasing the risks unnecessarily.

Yeah, I know that it'll increase the time to get there... but hey, you'll get there. In one piece, safe & sound.

-J

[Kerry]

What is the longest road trip you have done on a GS500 that you wanted to do again?

1 hour? 6 hours? 20 hours?

Hmmm.  I don't think I've DONE the longest road trip that I would want to do again ... yet.

Longest day?  16 hours, 770 miles ... from Garden City, KS to Orem, UT.  I wouldn't particularly want to do THAT day again, since the last 6 hours were after dark and I had no windshield (I was shivering) and the occasional deer made me perpetually nervous....

Longest trip so far?  3,800 miles.  Same trip, as a matter of fact!

For some of my other memorable jaunts, see the Trips section on my home page.

I'm thinking about getting one next week, but I'd like to make sure that I get a bike that I could ride 300 miles on if I wanted to.

The bike can definitely go from one town to the next ... and the next ... and the next.  But like PAC said, a lot depends on the rider.  I have a decent "discomfort threshold" and a lot of patience when it comes to going up some hills.