Most miles driven/ridden in one go?

[Jasandjules]

From Essex to Newcastle, I think it was around 320 miles or so in the end, but I did stop for food..... And that was in a TVR 350...

[Baffled Spoon]

About 490 miles with no stops whatsoever in a van. In fact, I ended up doing about 980 miles during that 24 hour period (drove from Glasgow to Canterbury and back in one day/night, about 16 hours on the road in total).

[bamberwell]

dcb said:

dave0010 said:

Personally I think the most I have done is about 250 and that was only for a holiday destination.

250 miles isn't very far. Any London-based Scottish
persons will have gone quite a bit further than
that whenever they drive back to their tribal homelands.

I've done 600 miles in one day on a few occasions.

+1 497 miles from northampton to aberarder (near inverness)

[sinizter]

450 miles. Last month, E92 M3 two weeks into my ownership and first time driving on the wrong side.

Gigny, France to Milton Keynes through the Eurotunnel.

Edited by sinizter on Monday 11th July 19:59

[RosscoPCole]

Glasgow to Loughborough in a 1.1 Metro in 1997 about 240 miles.

[Chrisw666]

In one hit without stopping I have managed 450 miles before needing to refuel.

In one hit with no sleeping (but food, pee and ferry stops essential) I have driven from Hartlepool to L'orient in Brittany and back in under 48 hours.

[Chas88]

300 miles, Wolverhampton to Stirling. I wouldn't want to do much more than that without a rest or a car with cruise control and auto box.

[MartinQ]

830 miles from Mansfield to Berlin en route to Wroclaw, Poland. I was going to see if it's possible in one, but common sense (and tiredness) took over and I thought it best to find a hotel. It was in a Merc Sprinter and whilst on the autobahn I discovered that they're limited to 160kph.

[Biker's Nemesis]

davem45r said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

1200 miles. Morpeth to Antibes on a 350 YPVS September 1989.

Impressive - I'd be needing pharmaceutical assistance for that

I've never felt the need to repeat it on a bike again. I was back there in 2002 but stopped in Northern France on the way there and back.

[diddly69]

Slightly off topic but I once saw an Aston Martin (DB9 I think) on display at the Festival of Speed that had done 1000 miles a day for 10 days straight. Pretty good going!

Ooops damn iPhone and Pistonheads mobile kept crashing and I thought I hadn't posted this already.

Edited by diddly69 on Monday 11th July 20:03

[davepoth]

1308 miles Denver to San Francisco. I did break the car doing it though.

[LooneyTunes]

~800 from Lyon to Manchester... was a lovely clear weekend run.

[GentleFellow]

900 miles.

Norwich to Dundee and back again. I did it in my bare feet.

[rsv gone!]

I delivered a car from Luton to Inverness and had the pleasure of a return journey in a Metro diesel! 1100 miles. Not something I'd have the patience to do now.

[Minemapper]

davepoth said:

1308 miles Denver to San Francisco. I did break the car doing it though.

Mine was the reverse of this. Dropped my mate at SFO at 10:00 on Monday. Arrived in Breckenrige, CO at 09:00 the next morning. Spent 24hrs packing my worldly belongings into the back of my '95 Ford Contour (aka Mondeo), and then did Breckenridge to Baltimore (@1800 miles), stopping only for food, fuel and short naps, arriving mid-afternoon on the Friday.

Two days later, one of my front tires blew out at 75mph. Fortunately I managed to control the car and stop safely, but visions of that happening with a fully loaded vehicle in East Bumfk Ohio tortured me for a long time afterwards.

[OdramaSwimLaden]

London - Calabria (the very south of Italy; 1630 miles).

I'd tell you how fast I did it but......best not! Let's just say driving through the night in an S-Class diesel let's you make good progress!

[Dalto123]

bout 250 from Bromley to North Wales, roof down all the way!

[ejenner]

Not as many as some. But I once drove to Zwolle in the Netherlands and back in one day. I had the cruise set at 100mph in the 9000 Aero. I can't say it was a total breeze but I'm glad I did it in that car and not anything less comfortable.

The distance is 724 miles. I went to go and collect a couple of Saab gearboxes.

Also drove my Saab 99 to Sweden over the course of two days. We started in London at silly-AM and drove up to the border between Germany and Denmark in the first leg. I remember that because we were getting a bit lost and crossed the border twice in the space of about 3 minutes so then obviously we were stopped and asked to show all our documents. Then trying to find a hotel in Denmark at silly-o'clock pm was impossible so we had to sleep in our cars.

[cheddar]

I drove 1010 miles in 16 hours - Denver Colorado to Terre haute near Indianapolis.

[Caruso]

824 miles from Amalfi in Southern Italy to Macon in France on a motorbike. When I woke up the next morning my neck felt like it was made of concrete.