I doubt you really had to click the thread to know the answer to that question. But anyway, yesterday I woke at WISTOC from a good warm sleeping bag with thoughts of the next couple cold days running around in my head. The Kevin's had promised temps as low as 32 degrees and my blood has adapted well to these good warm Florida temps.
So I packed things up and got off to a quiet start as I sometimes choose to do. I think I was on the bike and off by 6:40 or so from Spring Green Wisconsin. Leaving town I fell in behind a BMW X3 style car running 65 to 70 mph. Great a bird dog to run deer scout for me. I punched in home in the GPS and it said 1100 to home via Dubuque and Dyersburg my preferred route. OK I like a challenge and I haven't hit the 1,000 mile day in a couple years so it was on.
My smarter wife frowns on me getting home late, she says I'm grumpy when I ride over 600 mile days so I adjusted back to 1,000 miles and sleep in the tent another night to keep her happy. So Citronelle BAMA was choosen and the goal at 1,012 miles. GO! As I rode I decided the last 30 miles into Citronelle (via Deer Park BAMA) was a dark deer infested 2 lane road I really didn't want to ride at 10:30 p.m. so I adjusted again to end up at in the Lucedale BAMA area where the road is at least a wide 4 lanes in a dark deer infested area (only saw 1 after the ride was "over"). GO GO!
So I made it to the 1,000 mile mark at 10:36. Not bad since I had set my cruise control at 69 mph all day. 15 hours 56 minutes. Not too bad running legal speeds all day. Four gas stops and about 3 other "stops" for the day. First potential campspot was a river camp in Leaksville but it was just too muddy as the light rain had been there for a hours earlier that day. It took me another 45 minutes to find my bush camp spot for the night but by midnight I was in the tent.
Of course as my usually I didn't follow any of the Kneebone ride rules. No pre-planning at all. I drank one 32 ounce cup of Zero Coke all day and I didn't seal up my ride gear to keep the sweat in once the temps hit 94 in St. Louis. I didn't have any trail mix or bananas to munch on as I rode and I didn't plan any of my gas stops ahead of time when it hit 250 on the trip meter I looked for fuel and pulled in for fuel. Going 69 to 70 all day sure does wonders for the fuel mileage. I ate 2 eggrolls off the roller grill at QT for breakfast lunch and supper. I even forgot to take my arthritis pill before I started the day! That hurt.
But yes the Black Pearl is now at 423,523 miles and has made it home one more time and had at least this one more 1,040 mile total day to give me. If only I was 40 again I would ride all day most days....
Screen shot from the GPS 'where I've been today" feature. All that shows up in night mode is the finish line flag behind the text.
So I packed things up and got off to a quiet start as I sometimes choose to do. I think I was on the bike and off by 6:40 or so from Spring Green Wisconsin. Leaving town I fell in behind a BMW X3 style car running 65 to 70 mph. Great a bird dog to run deer scout for me. I punched in home in the GPS and it said 1100 to home via Dubuque and Dyersburg my preferred route. OK I like a challenge and I haven't hit the 1,000 mile day in a couple years so it was on.
My smarter wife frowns on me getting home late, she says I'm grumpy when I ride over 600 mile days so I adjusted back to 1,000 miles and sleep in the tent another night to keep her happy. So Citronelle BAMA was choosen and the goal at 1,012 miles. GO! As I rode I decided the last 30 miles into Citronelle (via Deer Park BAMA) was a dark deer infested 2 lane road I really didn't want to ride at 10:30 p.m. so I adjusted again to end up at in the Lucedale BAMA area where the road is at least a wide 4 lanes in a dark deer infested area (only saw 1 after the ride was "over"). GO GO!
So I made it to the 1,000 mile mark at 10:36. Not bad since I had set my cruise control at 69 mph all day. 15 hours 56 minutes. Not too bad running legal speeds all day. Four gas stops and about 3 other "stops" for the day. First potential campspot was a river camp in Leaksville but it was just too muddy as the light rain had been there for a hours earlier that day. It took me another 45 minutes to find my bush camp spot for the night but by midnight I was in the tent.
Of course as my usually I didn't follow any of the Kneebone ride rules. No pre-planning at all. I drank one 32 ounce cup of Zero Coke all day and I didn't seal up my ride gear to keep the sweat in once the temps hit 94 in St. Louis. I didn't have any trail mix or bananas to munch on as I rode and I didn't plan any of my gas stops ahead of time when it hit 250 on the trip meter I looked for fuel and pulled in for fuel. Going 69 to 70 all day sure does wonders for the fuel mileage. I ate 2 eggrolls off the roller grill at QT for breakfast lunch and supper. I even forgot to take my arthritis pill before I started the day! That hurt.
But yes the Black Pearl is now at 423,523 miles and has made it home one more time and had at least this one more 1,040 mile total day to give me. If only I was 40 again I would ride all day most days....
Screen shot from the GPS 'where I've been today" feature. All that shows up in night mode is the finish line flag behind the text.
up to WeSTOC this year. 
