So about a month ago or so I was talking about some of my rides and she asked about this "IBA thing." After I explained it to her she says she'd like to try it if I think the NT and her are capable. Mind you, she's been a licensed rider for about 60 days at this point, taken all sorts of back roads all over New England with me and some by herself, even took a trip to Lake Placid NY on the little 2001 Kawaski EX500 Ninja (her "learning bike" I bought). She's got about 4K miles under her at this point of our conversation and everyone in our MC circles is talking about how amazing she's riding.
So Saturday morning, August 6, 2016 3AM we leave for Seabrook NH.
Met one other friend of mine who's had the NE1000 as a bucketlist item for the last 3 or so years....
And set off on our adventure.
We'd made our first gas stop in Bangor ME and turned west to get gas and a short break in Gorham NH. Now it just so happened that when she comm'd in and asked me to stop so she could wash her face shield again I ended up noticing the current Tag for a game I was playing so snatched that.
And moved it...
8 Short hours and 500 miles into our day we were almost an hour ahead of schedule when we stopped in South Burlington VT for lunch. She is now on her longest ride ever not as a passenger, beating it by roughly 78 miles, but not even close to her longest in hours, that was 14. My friend couldn't wait to get his gear off for the planned 1 hour stop but as we were ahead of schedule I let them know we had almost 2 hours.
I was informed that if I value certain anatomy I will not post pics of the Iron Butt Hotel...
So we move on to our first stop after lunch, you know the stop... where the food has settled and you desperately need that break.
Sorry, again those are the only pics I'm allowed to post, by both parties this time.
We move south into Connecticut to mark our southwest corner of the route, I knew we'd be playing roulette with the scattered t-storms in the area and all my apps said it was looking good to stay on schedule during lunch so I let them sleep/rest back at the restaurant a couple hours back. We hung out for a while as we were still ahead of schedule now and well.... take a look at some pics of the surrounding area, we now need to ride East, weather patterns here go that way too...
But we are now 750 miles into this 1015 planned trip and are in great spirits! After all, now both of them are on their longest ride ever so it's already a win for them.
We only needed to wait about 20 minutes and the real heavy stuff was now in front of us. I reminded them that the pace will slow now due to wet roads and I really wanted to make sure we don't catch the storm. Slightly slower pace from New Haven CT, through RI to mark our southeast corner in Wareham, MA we met up with a fellow ST rider who's going to witness the finish for us back in NH. What a sight for some sore eyes, a friendly face we all know.
We got back to the same gas station per Rallymaster rules in Seabrook NH just under 18 hours later. While the two got their paperwork squared away the witness, unbeknownst to me, got pie out to celebrate! (this might be just an ST thing) Total time in the saddle for these two newbies to long distance riding, just over 15 hours.
Paperwork has been submitted to the Rallymaster as we did not start in Augusta, ME like the NE1000 rules state. So a brief wait period to verify the ride and the NE1000 will be awarded and the Rallymaster will submit for our Saddlesore ride for the additional fee.
SPOT link:
https://goo.gl/mdoiBh
- Took the MSF course to get her license
- I signed her up for an Advance Parking lot Course
- We're comm'd in with Sena 20s all the time so I coach her when she follows and when she leads.
- Have her signed up for a Non-Sportbike Track day in Palmer, Mass on 8/22
- Have a 12 day trip planned to the Catskills NY next month
So Saturday morning, August 6, 2016 3AM we leave for Seabrook NH.
Met one other friend of mine who's had the NE1000 as a bucketlist item for the last 3 or so years....
And set off on our adventure.
We'd made our first gas stop in Bangor ME and turned west to get gas and a short break in Gorham NH. Now it just so happened that when she comm'd in and asked me to stop so she could wash her face shield again I ended up noticing the current Tag for a game I was playing so snatched that.
And moved it...
8 Short hours and 500 miles into our day we were almost an hour ahead of schedule when we stopped in South Burlington VT for lunch. She is now on her longest ride ever not as a passenger, beating it by roughly 78 miles, but not even close to her longest in hours, that was 14. My friend couldn't wait to get his gear off for the planned 1 hour stop but as we were ahead of schedule I let them know we had almost 2 hours.
I was informed that if I value certain anatomy I will not post pics of the Iron Butt Hotel...
So we move on to our first stop after lunch, you know the stop... where the food has settled and you desperately need that break.
Sorry, again those are the only pics I'm allowed to post, by both parties this time.
We move south into Connecticut to mark our southwest corner of the route, I knew we'd be playing roulette with the scattered t-storms in the area and all my apps said it was looking good to stay on schedule during lunch so I let them sleep/rest back at the restaurant a couple hours back. We hung out for a while as we were still ahead of schedule now and well.... take a look at some pics of the surrounding area, we now need to ride East, weather patterns here go that way too...
But we are now 750 miles into this 1015 planned trip and are in great spirits! After all, now both of them are on their longest ride ever so it's already a win for them.
We only needed to wait about 20 minutes and the real heavy stuff was now in front of us. I reminded them that the pace will slow now due to wet roads and I really wanted to make sure we don't catch the storm. Slightly slower pace from New Haven CT, through RI to mark our southeast corner in Wareham, MA we met up with a fellow ST rider who's going to witness the finish for us back in NH. What a sight for some sore eyes, a friendly face we all know.
We got back to the same gas station per Rallymaster rules in Seabrook NH just under 18 hours later. While the two got their paperwork squared away the witness, unbeknownst to me, got pie out to celebrate! (this might be just an ST thing) Total time in the saddle for these two newbies to long distance riding, just over 15 hours.
Paperwork has been submitted to the Rallymaster as we did not start in Augusta, ME like the NE1000 rules state. So a brief wait period to verify the ride and the NE1000 will be awarded and the Rallymaster will submit for our Saddlesore ride for the additional fee.
SPOT link:
https://goo.gl/mdoiBh
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