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How long and hard have you rode your Monster?

Started by 2WheelsFTW, August 13, 2015, 08:32:57 PM

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2WheelsFTW

As the title says....

I would like to hear success stories not failures.  Maybe any serious repairs if any?  [popcorn]

Thanks guys
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Mhanis

Are you talking about a single event or over time?

Mark

I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat.

Pete Townshend

2009 M1100 72,000+ miles- and climbing
2015 Suzuki TU250X 13,000+ miles GONE!

stopintime


  82,000 miles since 2008  [Dolph]

I really don't know what to say about "success/failure" - I more than qualify for both....

252,000 km/seventeen years - loving it

He Man

Ive ridden my ducati where it was essentially on for 12+ hours.
Rain, snow sleet, sandy (wash your air filter!)
i put 31,000 miles before i broke it. IT was my fault. I think the motor would of gone tens of thousands otherwise.
Im at 38k now with a new motor. Frame is still solid.

mechnically sound.
2006 Ducati S2R1100 Yea.... stunttin like my daddy CHROMED OUT 1100!!!!


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koko64

All day at Phillip Island in 1996 (track day).
2015 Scrambler 800

Raux

14 hrs misano italy to kaiserslautern germany. High speeds with full pack and high mountain passes. Stopping only for fuel and changing gear for weather conditions. That was after world ducati week in 2012. Including 20 min track session and following stopintime and geoff into hills to rossis place. Biggest maintenance repairs on bike... Stators. I am now replacing 2nd one. Also ridden 2 up kaiserslautern to venice italy through austrian passes. 09 m696.

The Don

12.5hrs Phillip Island to Cooma, only stopping for fuel and water, unreal ride through the high country of Victoria, then hit the tail of a roo as he jumped across the road in front of me just as I was coming into Cooma
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Dirty Duc

In one day? 700+ miles.

In ownership... 37k+ sat for two years because improper torque caused irreparable damage to timing layshaft (I have a less engaging, but more comfortable bike)

How hard... different question.  I have not exceeded the rev limiter on downshifting. :D

xcaptainxbloodx

14 hours from crescent city CA to Laguna Beach CA, rain from Southern Oregon to Monteray. exclusively 101/1 highways. no stopping except for a quick food and gas.
last year it did a full season of track days too (~7, 5 hour days.)

failures? I picked up a nail about 4 hours away from Laguna.  Stopped one track day due to sloppy shifting, fixed that with the shift pawl update as nothing had actually broken.

06 S2R800 ~24000 miles

pitbull

Longest day on my m900 was Thunder Bay to home near Toronto. 1,440 km's or 900 miles. It was about a 16 hour day.

It was the last day of a 2 week trip out to New Mexico, up through the rockies to Alberta and then home. I got a bit of the get-home-it is and booked it hard the last day.

I would say the hardest was also during this ride, going across the Midwest in August during the worst heat wave in a couple decades. I was riding 12+ hr. days in well over 100 degree temps,  with zero issues.

Since that trip I've never worried about the little air cooled monster suffering overheating issues.
01 monster 900ie cromo, 01 ST4

Duck-Stew

My wife put 1,130 miles on in 20 hours, 45 minutes on her '03 M1000S.  I did the same ride on a '99 SS1000i.e..
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