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Old 10-28-2020, 10:43 AM   #136
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk View Post
Wrong tool for the job.

I've done multi-day (3 to 5 day) trips of 600 miles or more on a standard bike with no issues. I couldn't ride a VFR800 for more than 20 minutes before I would want to get off of it.
What can I say. It was the tool I had. To a kid with a hammer everything looks like a nail. In my early 60s I wasn't exactly a kid, but … 400-450 mile days, even on a serial basis, were OK. That 800 miler, not so much.
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