125 trip 200 miles

[Rkel1988]

Planning on going back home this weekend manchester to essex and its around 200 miles. Im on L plates and obviously have to avoid motorways. Im a pretty confident rider. Am i bonkers to do this

[TimR]

no . just plan well and allow yourself time .

basically add an extra hour to what google/ sat nav tells you for rest breaks

[Six30]

Every 60 miles stop for a rest , drink and a smoke

[Rkel1988]

Other thing is my mates meeting my halfway on his 675 triple so that should be fun.

[skyrider]

tell him to hang around a bit

[JackieOWheels]

Planning on going back home this weekend manchester to essex and its around 200 miles. Im on L plates and obviously have to avoid motorways. Im a pretty confident rider. Am i bonkers to do this

 

Ride safe out there! [mention]Rkel1988[/mention] have you ever ridden that distance before or close to it?

[Rkel1988]

Planning on going back home this weekend manchester to essex and its around 200 miles. Im on L plates and obviously have to avoid motorways. Im a pretty confident rider. Am i bonkers to do this

 

Ride safe out there! @Rkel1988 have you ever ridden that distance before or close to it?

Nope not even close i do possibly do 15 miles a day commuting. I do it regularly in a car but its obviously very different.

[JackieOWheels]

Planning on going back home this weekend manchester to essex and its around 200 miles. Im on L plates and obviously have to avoid motorways. Im a pretty confident rider. Am i bonkers to do this

 

Ride safe out there! @Rkel1988 have you ever ridden that distance before or close to it?

Nope not even close i do possibly do 15 miles a day commuting. I do it regularly in a car but its obviously very different.

 

Yikes! Then like others have said, take it easy on the ride out then. I've ridden up to 100miles in one day and I thought it was pretty heavy going, however not all of it was country road riding too, not sure how I would handle if majority of the road is NSL.

[Rkel1988]

Ride safe out there! @Rkel1988 have you ever ridden that distance before or close to it?

Nope not even close i do possibly do 15 miles a day commuting. I do it regularly in a car but its obviously very different.

 

Yikes! Then like others have said, take it easy on the ride out then. I've ridden up to 100miles in one day and I thought it was pretty heavy going, however not all of it was country road riding too, not sure how I would handle if majority of the road is NSL.

 

Sorry for my naivety what is nsl?

[JackieOWheels]

Nope not even close i do possibly do 15 miles a day commuting. I do it regularly in a car but its obviously very different.

 

Yikes! Then like others have said, take it easy on the ride out then. I've ridden up to 100miles in one day and I thought it was pretty heavy going, however not all of it was country road riding too, not sure how I would handle if majority of the road is NSL.

 

Sorry for my naivety what is nsl?

 

My bad, it is National Speed Limit, I meant country road riding for the majority of the way home.

[Guest Richzx6r]

I used to do 150+miles on my old 125 eliminator quite alot so its definitely doable it just depends on how mechanically sympathetic you are, I definitely wasn't very sympathetic to my 125 and it was flat out whenever I went on a long journey aswell as pretty much everywhere else and it never let me down apart from once when I went to Stafford and the electrics shat themselves but apart from that one it never missed a beat

[Rkel1988]

I used to do 150+miles on my old 125 eliminator quite alot so its definitely doable it just depends on how mechanically sympathetic you are, I definitely wasn't very sympathetic to my 125 and it was flat out whenever I went on a long journey aswell as pretty much everywhere else and it never let me down apart from once when I went to Stafford and the electrics shat themselves but apart from that one it never missed a beat

 

I thought the only way to ride a 125 was flat out?!

[JackieOWheels]

I used to do 150+miles on my old 125 eliminator quite alot so its definitely doable it just depends on how mechanically sympathetic you are, I definitely wasn't very sympathetic to my 125 and it was flat out whenever I went on a long journey aswell as pretty much everywhere else and it never let me down apart from once when I went to Stafford and the electrics shat themselves but apart from that one it never missed a beat

 

Rich, how long did you have the eliminator till you ran the bike to the ground?

[Guest Richzx6r]

I used to do 150+miles on my old 125 eliminator quite alot so its definitely doable it just depends on how mechanically sympathetic you are, I definitely wasn't very sympathetic to my 125 and it was flat out whenever I went on a long journey aswell as pretty much everywhere else and it never let me down apart from once when I went to Stafford and the electrics shat themselves but apart from that one it never missed a beat

 

Rich, how long did you have the eliminator till you ran the bike to the ground?

 

I had it for 4 odd years and sold it to my best mate for £170 who then decided to undo all my hard work of customizing the bike and put it back to standard and got nearly £900 but it did have nearly 60k miles on the clock in those 4 years

[JackieOWheels]

I used to do 150+miles on my old 125 eliminator quite alot so its definitely doable it just depends on how mechanically sympathetic you are, I definitely wasn't very sympathetic to my 125 and it was flat out whenever I went on a long journey aswell as pretty much everywhere else and it never let me down apart from once when I went to Stafford and the electrics shat themselves but apart from that one it never missed a beat

 

Rich, how long did you have the eliminator till you ran the bike to the ground?

 

I had it for 4 odd years and sold it to my best mate for £170 who then decided to undo all my hard work of customizing the bike and put it back to standard and got nearly £900 but it did have nearly 60k miles on the clock in those 4 years

 

Lol, I hope you didn't give your mate those original parts too or he got you good for that sell price.

That bike sure has done a lot of miles, it's impressive if it's still going!

[Guest Richzx6r]

I doubt it is still alive but I can't remember the reg to check

[Rkel1988]

So currently broken down on the side of the a1 waiting for recovery coil pack burnt out pushed it too far for too long

[Guest Richzx6r]

Oh no, where abouts on the a1? N how you mean you pushed it too much?

[Rkel1988]

Oh no, where abouts on the a1? N how you mean you pushed it too much?

 

Rode it for about three hours straight 50/60mph burnt out the coil pack to the spark plug.

[Guest Richzx6r]

Where on the a1 it happen, also that shouldn't have done that doing 50/60mph

[JackieOWheels]

Yikes! I hope you're OK just now [mention]Rkel1988[/mention]

[Rkel1988]

Where on the a1 it happen, also that shouldn't have done that doing 50/60mph

 

It happened about 30 miles before the ok diner going southbound. I know but luckily its a cheap fix. Cheap chinese parts. My own fault for buying!