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Message started by guitarsr4girls2 on 04/28/06 at 10:05:07

Title: 570 miles in one day
Post by guitarsr4girls2 on 04/28/06 at 10:05:07

So May 19th I'm riding my 2000 Savage all the way across Texas into NM...just wondering if I'm crazy taking this little bike all the way out there.

I've already ridden up into Oklahoma, but I'm just slightly concerned about over-kill on this bike.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by vroom1776 on 04/28/06 at 10:24:06

not crazy. Bike'll be fine, jsut keep an eye on the oil and gas!

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by guitarsr4girls2 on 04/28/06 at 10:26:27

yeah, i'm gonna change the oil a few days before i go, mostly because it's time anyway.

funny you should mention the gas. i'm riding with a HD Road King, so it'll be fun for him to have to pull over more often than usual. :-)

hopefully i'll be putting on some isogrips before i go. crossing my fingers at least.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by sluggo on 04/28/06 at 10:41:09

pop a couple of eleve, or advil before departure. that will helpthe aches and pains of the ride

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by guitarsr4girls2 on 04/28/06 at 10:46:13

haha! i will remember that, although you know, i'm not quite as aged as some of you here, so maybe i won't need it. ;) but oh the lessons i can learn!

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by vroom1776 on 04/28/06 at 10:53:34

Okay, here's two otehr long trip savage tips.

1) don't be afraid to sit on goofy parts of the bike, like the hump, or the passneger pillion w/ your feet ont he pass pegs (If you have a sissy bar)

2) If you really feel the engine resonating, i.e. big vibrations), speed up or slow down a little. your hands and feet will thabnk you later.

In general, drink water or gatorade, not soda or red bull. If you get tired, STOP and take a break!

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by Savage_Rob on 04/28/06 at 13:00:49

guitarsr4girls2 wrote:

haha! i will remember that, although you know, i'm not quite as aged as some of you here, so maybe i won't need it. ;) but oh the lessons i can learn!

Yeah, 21 is a lot different than twice or thrice that.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by Savage_Rob on 04/28/06 at 13:02:39

vroom1776 wrote:

That's the one thing I like about the Savage fuel range. It reminds me to stop and get off every 100 miles.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by steelwolf on 04/28/06 at 15:07:01

guitarsr4girls2 wrote:

haha! i will remember that, although you know, i'm not quite as aged as some of you here, so maybe i won't need it. ;) but oh the lessons i can learn!

Monkey butt knows no age. ;)

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by sluggo on 04/28/06 at 15:17:07

steelwolf wrote:

Monkey butt knows no age. ;)

hence the advil suggestion.

since i'm not riding due to the broken trottle hand, i went out a sat on it for an hour last night, no monkee butt due to the pain meds. now my riding partner sqeekee didnt understand why i didn't go any where.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by azjay on 04/28/06 at 15:27:37

sounds like fun to me, wind burn, sun burn, dehydration, prepare and take care of all three. it should be 100* or so, yes? try not to let that big ol' harley run you 85mph all day, i dont think the suzuki would appreciate that. its about to be over 100* for the next 100+ days in so.az. enjoy your moderate summers 8)

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by vroom1776 on 04/28/06 at 16:09:55

The savage will do 85 in 100 deg. weather for hours. I've doen it. SD blacktop in the summer sucks.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by Brewbrother on 04/28/06 at 18:05:39

azjay wrote:

Your right about the sunscreen, yet wrong about the LS hanging at 85 all day.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by RadarORiley on 05/01/06 at 15:03:07

be sure you take your glued up "CD" s to put under the kickstand. The highways will be running tar before long and it really sucks to see your bike in a slow slide just out of your reach. Have fun, wish we were all going with you.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by lancer on 05/01/06 at 16:57:02

Your right about the sunscreen, yet wrong about the LS hanging at 85 all day.[/quote]

Speak for you own Savage...mine will purr at 85 as long as it has gas in it. In 5th gear at 85 it is approaching the power peak and pulls strongly past 95, hits 100 and then rolls just past that a bit +/- depending on how it is feeling that day.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by Savage_Rob on 05/02/06 at 07:23:47

lancer wrote:

Speak for you own Savage...mine will purr at 85 as long as it has gas in it. In 5th gear at 85 it is approaching the power peak and pulls strongly past 95, hits 100 and then rolls just past that a bit +/- depending on how it is feeling that day.

I thought that's what he was saying in response to the post he quoted that said not to let a Harley run her at 85 all day. To me it read like:
You're right to be concerned about UV causing radiation damage to your skin but don't be concerned about the Savage running 85 all day.

Maybe I read it wrong. In any case, mine will do 85 for hours on end in 100+ temperatures though I did stop every 85 miles or so for fuel and then took an hour for lunch, etc. Nowadays with the Amal carb I don't get quite the same mileage but better response and power. While I get about 52 MPG at 55-65 MPH, it drops to about 40-45 MPG when I get past about 75 MPH. That said, I'd probably kick back at 60-65 MPH and enjoy the ride knowing my mileage was 20% better.

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by vroom1776 on 05/02/06 at 09:01:57

I'm getting about 37.5 mpg w/ my 38 mm VM. Something very wrong still...

uh, off topic

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by guitarsr4girls2 on 05/02/06 at 12:30:21

So glad to know that everyone is giving me the thumbs up on this trip. If you're wondering, we're riding out to Carlsbad Caverns and then up into Cloudcroft. Should be an awesome ride.

Luckily we're going to take mostly farm to markets (just for fun), so I don't think I'll have to worry about running 85 or 90 the whole time, but isn't good to know that on such a small bike you could if you wanted to?

Still looking at putting new bars and iso's on...eh, I don't know if I'll get around to that. Oh well. :-)

Title: Re: 570 miles in one day
Post by Savage_Rob on 05/03/06 at 06:59:52

guitarsr4girls2 wrote:

So where's your starting point?