Most miles driven/ridden in one go?
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Famous Graham said:
Even though I went on a few European driving holidays, I suspect the longest continuous stretch would actually be my regular Reading -> Edinburgh runs a few years ago. About 400 miles door to door.
Actually, that's mince. I did Reading to La Plagne in the Alps in one hit (with Dover->Calais, obviously). So about 700 miles total. Think it took 12 hours.
Did this
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Rocamadour,+Fr...
710 miles, 12 hours including 3 fuel stops and an extremely boring 2 hour stop waiting for the chunnel (which was crap, took *ages* and I'll never use again!)
On the way to France I wasn't going mad but sat at about 80 or so. On the way back decided to try going via Paris, where the new sat nav threw a wobbler right in the middle of Paris, but it was a bit quicker (but a lot more boring roads)
The longest I've ever done was Milton Keynes to here
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=mk7+8qb&da...
via the alps 1200 or so miles with a couple of long stops for food and rest, and *lots* of stops for fuel and fags.
So tired by the end of it, two bikes had an accident and one lad got a dislocated shoulder.
But all fine the next day
Doesn't google maps use an average speed on m'ways of 50mph? And A roads are 30mph, B roads 20mph, towns 10mph? (that's the defaults my sat nav uses - the town one may be right but the rest are a bit slow!)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Rocamadour,+Fr...
710 miles, 12 hours including 3 fuel stops and an extremely boring 2 hour stop waiting for the chunnel (which was crap, took *ages* and I'll never use again!)
On the way to France I wasn't going mad but sat at about 80 or so. On the way back decided to try going via Paris, where the new sat nav threw a wobbler right in the middle of Paris, but it was a bit quicker (but a lot more boring roads)
The longest I've ever done was Milton Keynes to here
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=mk7+8qb&da...
via the alps 1200 or so miles with a couple of long stops for food and rest, and *lots* of stops for fuel and fags.
So tired by the end of it, two bikes had an accident and one lad got a dislocated shoulder.
But all fine the next day
Doesn't google maps use an average speed on m'ways of 50mph? And A roads are 30mph, B roads 20mph, towns 10mph? (that's the defaults my sat nav uses - the town one may be right but the rest are a bit slow!)
672 miles, NE Scotland to SW England.
In-laws lived in Devon so it was a twice yearly holiday destination. Fastest time was around 10 hours and the slowest around 16 hours in the snow. This has been done in various cars from a 1.4 Almera to 2.0 Hyundai Coupe which was mega comfy with the superb bonus of cruise control, although it turns out this won't hold a speed above 115mph on cruise and always drops back to it
OH won't do this journey in either of the current cars and flying down is sooo much nicer anyway.
In-laws lived in Devon so it was a twice yearly holiday destination. Fastest time was around 10 hours and the slowest around 16 hours in the snow. This has been done in various cars from a 1.4 Almera to 2.0 Hyundai Coupe which was mega comfy with the superb bonus of cruise control, although it turns out this won't hold a speed above 115mph on cruise and always drops back to it
OH won't do this journey in either of the current cars and flying down is sooo much nicer anyway.
Coming back from a trip to the Highlands I had planned on staying overnight in Edinburgh, but when I got there around 10pm I wasn't tired, so decided to push on and drive through the night. After 610 miles I found out the A34 was shut south of Oxford and I got stuck at Cherwell Valley services. Too tired to think of a diversion I grabbed a couple of hours sleep before driving the remaining 60 miles.
Tiredness led me to believe I knew better than the satnav, so this turned out to be the 'loooong route' -
Inverness - Loch Ness - Fort William - Edinburgh - A1,Newcastle - Leeds - M6,Manchester - Hampshire - 670 miles.
Not something I'll ever be doing again, especially not overnight. I felt like s
t afterwards.
Tiredness led me to believe I knew better than the satnav, so this turned out to be the 'loooong route' -
Inverness - Loch Ness - Fort William - Edinburgh - A1,Newcastle - Leeds - M6,Manchester - Hampshire - 670 miles.
Not something I'll ever be doing again, especially not overnight. I felt like s
t afterwards.Perhaps a better question would be - whats the longest you've driven with cruise control on without touching the brakes? My record is Ringwood, Dorset (possibly Hants) to the M25 (at a naughty speed too), got close to a few vehicles and understand why some are against the idea (illegal in Belgium according to TG)
Goodfella 555 said:
Perhaps a better question would be - whats the longest you've driven with cruise control on without touching the brakes? My record is Ringwood, Dorset (possibly Hants) to the M25 (at a naughty speed too), got close to a few vehicles and understand why some are against the idea (illegal in Belgium according to TG)
M42 to M25... But it's a bit of a cheat as the car has ACC so it does the pedal stuff for you.
Just done in one week (deep breath)
Manchester - Folkstone - Metz (France) - Lake Gardia (Italy) - Lake Como (Italy) - Trento (Italy) - Stelvio Pass (Italy) - Gothard Tunnel (Italy/Switzerland) - Lucern (Switzerland).
That trip was done all in 5 days with a 3 day stop over in Lake Gardia, wait for it.......... on a 2009 BMW GS 1200 Adventurer. I couldn't walk straight for a week, but that's another story haha, joke.
Then came the return, Lucern (Switzerland) - Calais (France) - Folkstone - Manchester. All in one day.
Oh yeah, i also cut through Germany but i didn't know what part so i'm not putting it in.
And for the die harders out there, i did it all without Sat Nav. The only place i got lost.........fking London haha 
Manchester - Folkstone - Metz (France) - Lake Gardia (Italy) - Lake Como (Italy) - Trento (Italy) - Stelvio Pass (Italy) - Gothard Tunnel (Italy/Switzerland) - Lucern (Switzerland).
That trip was done all in 5 days with a 3 day stop over in Lake Gardia, wait for it.......... on a 2009 BMW GS 1200 Adventurer. I couldn't walk straight for a week, but that's another story haha, joke.
Then came the return, Lucern (Switzerland) - Calais (France) - Folkstone - Manchester. All in one day.
Oh yeah, i also cut through Germany but i didn't know what part so i'm not putting it in.
And for the die harders out there, i did it all without Sat Nav. The only place i got lost.........f
king London haha Last weekend Aberdeen - Southampton, 570 miles non-stop not even for petrol, Vauxhall Insignia on one tank for FoS that weekend.
Others
Aberdeen - Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) - Aberdeen - Halifax - Aberdeen - Aboyne - Aberdeen, 800 miles towing my mates Lotus Excel that he just sold with my old Classic Range Rover Vogue, stops for fuel, food and toilet.
Stoke - Exeter - Aberdeen, 780 miles, bought the Classic Range Rover on eBay from a seller in Newton Abbot, was working in Stoke at the time, drove the hire car to Exeter, picked up the Rangie and drove home to Aberdeen, stops for fuel, food and toilet.
Aberdeen - Romford, 550 miles, took my MK1 MX-5 to Everything MX-5 to get turbo charged, drove overnight with the roof down all the way, drove back a couple of days later (although a bit faster) stops for fuel, food and toilet
Others
Aberdeen - Aboyne (Aberdeenshire) - Aberdeen - Halifax - Aberdeen - Aboyne - Aberdeen, 800 miles towing my mates Lotus Excel that he just sold with my old Classic Range Rover Vogue, stops for fuel, food and toilet.
Stoke - Exeter - Aberdeen, 780 miles, bought the Classic Range Rover on eBay from a seller in Newton Abbot, was working in Stoke at the time, drove the hire car to Exeter, picked up the Rangie and drove home to Aberdeen, stops for fuel, food and toilet.
Aberdeen - Romford, 550 miles, took my MK1 MX-5 to Everything MX-5 to get turbo charged, drove overnight with the roof down all the way, drove back a couple of days later (although a bit faster) stops for fuel, food and toilet
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