Your longest KLX250 ride
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Your longest KLX250 ride
The 07 vs 09 KLX thread with the "clifsta controversy" got me thinking. What is the longest ride you guys have done? I think my longest day on the bike was 120 miles. I ask because I am planning a trip that'll be around 160 miles one way this summer. About 50 miles will be dirt / gravel roads. The rest paved. Someday I would like to take the bike to Death Valley or Southeast Oregon or Northwest Nevada (no paved roads out there) and do an overnight camping type tour / ride.
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Wow! You're gonna be beat up by the end of the day! I did 140 miles of paved road and about 10 miles of rocks and dirt in one day! I was pretty much switching from my right butt cheek to my left after about 50 miles! 
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My longest was coming back from my south island trip. Did Nelson to Auckland in one day,with the afternoon spent taking a 'shortcut' through some 26kms of back country gravel roads.
That totaled to 960 kms, started at 5am, finished at 1am, with a 4 hour ferry ride in the middle. After 200kms, the butt kinda just gets used to it.
For those people stuck in thier imperial ways: 960 kms = 596 miles.
That totaled to 960 kms, started at 5am, finished at 1am, with a 4 hour ferry ride in the middle. After 200kms, the butt kinda just gets used to it.
For those people stuck in thier imperial ways: 960 kms = 596 miles.
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I did the Shenandoah 500 (thats 500km not miles) last October. But I went with some locals and we did approximately 100 miles more. I also had about a 25 mile one way commute from where I live to Natural Chimneys camp ground where the ride started from. The total was a shade over 498 mi in two days. It was mostly rocky hard packed forest roads.
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700 miles. Here is the ride report link. 
Enjoy
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=378743
Enjoyhttp://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=378743
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The 07 vs 09 KLX thread with the "clifsta controversy" got me thinking. What is the longest ride you guys have done? I think my longest day on the bike was 120 miles. I ask because I am planning a trip that'll be around 160 miles one way this summer. About 50 miles will be dirt / gravel roads. The rest paved. Someday I would like to take the bike to Death Valley or Southeast Oregon or Northwest Nevada (no paved roads out there) and do an overnight camping type tour / ride.
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Didn't realize I made a controversy... sorry for whatever I did.
Longest single day I think I've rode is 120 or 140 miles, and I did another 80 the next day, so I've had a 200-mile-plus weekend.
Longest single day I think I've rode is 120 or 140 miles, and I did another 80 the next day, so I've had a 200-mile-plus weekend.
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The longest I have ridden in one day is about 90+... but that's all dirt, rocks, gravel, sand washes, and single track at maybe 40+ mph max! Reason? Don't really care much for the asphalt lifestyle ... bought it for the dirt bike experience.
I have never experienced much discomfort from the seat, maybe it's because I live on the pegs.
Happy trails,
I have never experienced much discomfort from the seat, maybe it's because I live on the pegs.
Happy trails,