Boston and back

[2manycars]

I did my first longer distance ride on the 2012 RT last week. All went well for the 720 or so miles (360 miles there and back) but, I must say I would not do it again, at least by myself. Three hundred sixty miles of highway is totally boring regardless of what you ride. I have a friend who belongs to the "iron butt association and he loves riding huge distances in record time non-stop. His first was 1000 miles in 24 hours followed by 1500 miles in just over that(it all sounds very dangerous, since there is little or no time to sleep during these rides). I do not see how anyone can stand going any sort of distance on strictly highways. Perhaps if I had someone along it would not had been so bad.

On a plus note, I did average almost 34 miles per gallon. That includes Boston where I only got 27MPG on that tank full.

I am curious what others experiences have been when riding this distance on highways alone?

 

[harrypottar]

I try not to do highways unless I have too, Going to stamford from MA I normally take route 6, 395 to Merritt Parkway, only adds about 20 minutes to the journey.

Americade I went mostly back roads and I think I did a total of about 20 miles high way, SITA, will be mostly back roads through Keene NH into VT then in NY.

If I have too, I make sure I have enough music to listen too or a good audio book, stop every fill up 130 miles or so drink lots of water, try to keep a positive attitude.

harry

 

[mastertek2000]

I did my first longer distance ride on the 2012 RT last week. All went well for the 720 or so miles (360 miles there and back) but, I must say I would not do it again, at least by myself. Three hundred sixty miles of highway is totally boring regardless of what you ride. I have a friend who belongs to the "iron butt association and he loves riding huge distances in record time non-stop. His first was 1000 miles in 24 hours followed by 1500 miles in just over that(it all sounds very dangerous, since there is little or no time to sleep during these rides). I do not see how anyone can stand going any sort of distance on strictly highways. Perhaps if I had someone along it would not had been so bad.

On a plus note, I did average almost 34 miles per gallon. That includes Boston where I only got 27MPG on that tank full.

I am curious what others experiences have been when riding this distance on highways alone?

Lol that funny I and the wife's longest ride was from eastern mass to Alaska it was about almost 10,000 miles round trip