100k miles in 100 days!

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I'm riding in Hop's Rally next weekend starting in Houston, and the rally master is Chris Hopper. Chris just finished a charity ride of 100k miles in 100 days for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He did it on a 2021 Harley Road Glide Limited, with a 5 gallon aux tank. He's on Facebook if you want to get more detail, but I'm not on FB so I have no link. Here are his Spot tracks. That's a lot of seat time in 3 months, way more than I could ever do!

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Not a facebook kind of guy but any idea how many tires he went through? Certainly saw about every interstate in the country....
 
flyfisher said:
Not a facebook kind of guy but any idea how many tires he went through? Certainly saw about every interstate in the country....
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This ride is probably the strongest argument to darkside that there ever was....and he chose not to. I'll have to ask if he even considered it next time I see him.
 
Best estimate in a cost of $35k to complete the ride, including the depreciation on his bike.
 
Aside from the actual IBR, the only one I know of (and of course, I don't know all the attempts, or all the riders) was Warchild who did 10 or 11? SS1000s consecutively.
Warchild is a name known to all IBR entrants, and most on the ldrlist.

EDIT: autocorrect changed Warchild to "Watching" and I corrected the autocorrect.
 
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Sadlsor said:
Aside from the actual IBR, the only one I know of (and of course, I don't know all the attempts, or all the riders) was Warchild who did 10 or 11? SS1000s consecutively.
Watching is a name known to all IBR entrants, and most on the ldrlist.
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No, another guy did 45000 in 45 days. I can't recall his name at the moment, but it wasn't long ago. Warchild is more famous for stringing BunBurner Golds back to back. 1500 in 24 hours.
 
Matt Wise did 45k in 45 days not too long ago.
 
jodog said:
No, another guy did 45000 in 45 days. I can't recall his name at the moment, but it wasn't long ago. Warchild is more famous for stringing BunBurner Golds back to back. 1500 in 24 hours.
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Stringing BBG's is the hardest ride IMO. Dan Simmonds holds the record at 10. Tough to comprehend.
 
kendoo said:
yes....crazy huh?!
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For sure. I’m in awe of 10 Saddlesores in 10 days. Can’t imagine doing 10 straight BBGs. When is there time to sleep?
 
paulcb said:
For sure. I’m in awe of 10 Saddlesores in 10 days. Can’t imagine doing 10 straight BBGs. When is there time to sleep?
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He had a route out West somewhere (Utah I think) that was essentially a 750 mile out and back. He based out of one hotel so that he could get to sleep right away and reload his bike with food and water. Think he had extra wheels with fresh rubber that he swapped out at some point. He used the same gas stations etc. But still, its tough to beat 15K miles in 10 days. I'm guessing we was banging them out in about 18-19 hrs in order to get some sleep.

EDIT- from his cert:
"10 lap ride starting in Caldwell, Idaho continuing on across southern Idaho to Snowville, Utah, down a remote high-desert 2-lane road and finally across northern Nevada to Reno, turning around and retracing his route back to Caldwell each day."
 
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John OoSTerhuis said:
Doesn’t our own Curt Gran (RIP) hold the official consecutive BBGs record?
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From his certificate dated Aug 2016:
"The Bun Burner GOLD Deca, an extreme ride designed for an extreme rider, was conducted under very strict guidelines set forth by the Iron Butt Association. Dan Simmonds is the first person to ride and document ten 1,500+ mile days setting a 10 day mileage record along the way!"

Think I read somewhere Curt had 7 consecutive...couldn't confirm that though.
 
kendoo said:
From his certificate dated Aug 2016:
"The Bun Burner GOLD Deca, an extreme ride designed for an extreme rider, was conducted under very strict guidelines set forth by the Iron Butt Association. Dan Simmonds is the first person to ride and document ten 1,500+ mile days setting a 10 day mileage record along the way!"

Think I read somewhere Curt had 7 consecutive...couldn't confirm that though.
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Yep, seven consecutive BBG's. He did this back in August 11-17, 2009. I had access to his SPOT tracker and since I was an extreme night owl back then, I made daily calls in the wee hours of the night to see how his day was going and hopefully helping him alleviate some of the boredom he must of been experiencing.

His whole rational for the ride was to see if it could be done using the standard IBR rally rules; mainly limiting the amount of gas to 11.0 gallon capacity, The other facet was to use typical freeway roads, limiting the amount of time on deserted two lanes. He had three main routes that he used and sometimes rode them in reverse to help keep things fresh. Dale "Warchild" Wilson was the first to document the seven day BBG hell week but he did it having a 21 gallon gas capacity and limiting his route mainly to "lonely two-lane roads" which gave him plenty of opportunity to travel, shall we say, at a brisker rate. Don't get me wrong though, I highly respect both of those rides and I was gobsmacked when I saw that Dan Simmonds had done ten of them. Yikes!

Here is a linky to a 2009 Cycle World magazine article about Dale's ride.

Here is another linky to Rebecca Vaughn's smugmug page where she has a collection of photos from Curt's ride. Rebecca (bg over at the Adventure Rider forum) spent the week over at the home base out in Omaha (Bob & Jen Beck from STOwners home), keeping Curt motivated and ready to go during the whole event... :thumb:
 
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