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[Christian J]

Hmm...

650 km in 16 hours (that's > 400 miles) - that was a ride from Stuttgart to Dille (and back again)
I posted in my (German) blog about this trip: http://www.christian-jog.de/2016/03/10/dille

My record was >1000 km (620 mi) in 32 hours, although I did sleep for about 5 hours on this trip. It was part of the "king's stage" of the Wave 2015. See morimaxx' post.
He is also the one who is 'responsible' for me getting the Zero in the first place :-)
http://www.christian-jog.de/2015/06/27/wave-trophy-2015-die-koenigsetappe

I also document my route plans in this Google spreadsheet for you to browse:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HlLLxe9cMLtkm6aYvN6HpyRV5S93IpLejMkA-th5aq8/edit?usp=sharing

This is how you feel after riding 300 miles without a good night's rest before your start ;-)



Next record would be the Iron Butt - but I'd need the DigiNow charger for that, @Brandon ;-)

So the list goes on:

togo
Brian T Rice
Brandon Nozaki Miller
Shadow
Electric Terry
Charger
anton
mrwilsn
ElectricZen
benswing
morimaxx
UW4E
Christian Jog & Birger Salzer

[zerovolt]

300 miles  in Zero s 11.4 2014 with meanwell rsp , one Time last year.

[benswing]

Here is a google doc if you'd like to put the date and mileage of your longest ride for comparison (and fun).  (Use the tab that is named "250+ riders")

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/173oPGBbYVeTNMDyt4ydCRYqWsBRdPUPm2CCndmVfQjY/edit#gid=930939131

Now that more people are getting a digiNow Supercharger V2 we may have more competition out there!  That's great!  I can't wait to see, read, and hear about other people's long range journeys!  It used to be just Terry and me going long distances, but now 4 people have crossed the US.

[gyrocyclist]

257 miles today! Close to 12 hours, which was longer than I'd thought. Hit much heavy, slow freeway traffic coming home (yeah, I live in CA, where the weather is fantastic and the traffic is not).

Route: Livermore CA -> North Vasco (becomes CA 4) -> I 680 -> CA 12 -> CA 121.  Recharged in Napa garage; no cost! Then on to Silverado Trail -> Geyserville, and home by way of 101 and I 580.         

Stopped in Petaluma for 2nd (and I thought final) rechage in city garage ($). Curiously, the ChargePoint cut out at just under an hour, at 65% SOC. ChargePoint notified me of this by text message (I was eating lunch) and I pannicked: "someone's messing with my bike!" Turned out not to be the case; have no idea why this happened.  After two tries I couldn't get the charger to re-start (OK, it did once, for about five seconds), so I gave up. Figured I had enough charge to get within maybe 10 miles of home. Made a brief third recharge stop at the Juvenile Justice Center (near Lake Chabot).

I am *SO* looking forward to faster charging and greater range.

(2016 SR, two elcon chargers)

[anton]

Had to look up timeline in order to find this. My longest trip in a day was 287 miles from Clear Lake, CA on Hwy 20 west to Hwy 1 and back to Bay Area. I had 6.6 SC v2 back then so charging took a while.

[Skidz]

I've done over 250 miles today (270 to be exact, or 435km in normal people units ) Took me 14 hours to do, including 2 charging sessions of 1.5 hours so 11 hours net driving time. Returned home with 35% left so used 265% of my 12kW net capacity (charged to 97% both times). I'm still working out the metrics, had my Garmin GPS on the steer for navigation and the thing also logged the entire trip.

*edit*
Moving average 46,2km/h (28.7mph), riding time 9.5 hours, charging time 3 hours, used ±31kWh. Apparently I lost 1,5 hours emptying my bladder and waiting for open bridges in Friesland

Notes to self: Maximum charging current was 72 amps so adding another stack of FPS'ses will blow the fuse. Also, need a throttle lock of some kind because a sleeping hand sucks bigtime

[nevetsyad]

Failed to make the club by like 20 miles with my Skyline ride.

[Shadow]

I did a 250mi+ day this week, riding from Kings Beach CA to Scotts Valley CA. I had a late start about 9am and arrived at 7pm. There were some charging hiccups i.e. waiting in Tracy for government employee who was charging county owned and operated EV on their hour long lunch break with the only two public chargers around. Some of that route was brand new for me which contributed to the delay.

From Scotts Valley CA I wanted to adventure out and find the "Presentation Center" and so tried to give it a go https://api.plugshare.com/view/location/9817

Which led to a series of anxiety-inducing decisions, riding in the rain on a rural highway system that had been freshly cleared of mudslides and road closures, losing traction every few switchbacks.

Entry point I think was Zayante Rd, then Skyline for a while until I saw some really stern warnings that it was absolutely definitely closed except to local traffic, for which I cut over onto Black Road and eventually made my way out onto CA17 north.

[gyrocyclist]

  riding in the rain on a rural highway system that had been freshly cleared of mudslides and road closures, losing traction every few switchbacks.

Unbelievable;  where the heck did you run into rain at this time of year???
Yeah, roads around here are total c--p after winter storms. Several favorite roads (for both motor and bicycle)
remain closed for indefinite periods of time. 
(Dave H, Livermore -- 54 miles NE of Scotts Valley, 44 Miles E. of San Fran)

[swavess]

Carson to Vegas on Sunday, 433 miles and I returned yesterday, slightly different route, 440 mi on a 2017 DSR.  Central Nevada is tricky with 100+ miles between, well, anything.  Longest stretch was Bishop, CA to Beatty, NV for 150 mi section that crossed 3 mtn ranges.  I was at 0% for the last 9 miles.

[Doctorbass]

back in summer 2014  I  Did 2000km in 3.5 days with my 2012 ZF15 ( DIY as well !) then i did 450km in a day going to Mt washington twice

That was one of my favorite trip.

I have added one 2012 Brick in each of the side case i built a rack for.. so 13.5kWh usable

I also had my supercharger









Doc

[bigd]

You darn hippies, get a hair cut.... Just kidding great job

[Erasmo]

back in summer 2014  I  Did 2000km in 3.5 days with my 2012 ZF15 ( DIY as well !) then i did 450km in a day going to Mt washington twice

That was one of my favorite trip.

I have added one 2012 Brick in each of the side case i built a rack for.. so 13.5kWh usable

I also had my supercharger









Doc

Nicely done in those Peli cases. There must be some interest to make that possible on newer bikes.

[Shadow]

Carson to Vegas on Sunday, 433 miles and I returned yesterday, slightly different route, 440 mi on a 2017 DSR.  Central Nevada is tricky with 100+ miles between, well, anything.  Longest stretch was Bishop, CA to Beatty, NV for 150 mi section that crossed 3 mtn ranges.  I was at 0% for the last 9 miles.

Incredible. Any other advice for making that route? Was this with a PowerTank?

[swavess]

It was with the power tank.  Without it, I'd recommend going down 95.  The other route, the section on 395 from Bishop over 168 to 95, while being awesome, is just too far.  There are absolutely no towns, RV parks, houses or anything once you leave 395 until you hit just north of Beatty.  Also, the headwinds can be brutal there, which really reduces range as well as the mountain ranges that are crossed. 
I've added some RV parks and various plugs in Yerrington, Hawthorne and Lee Vining.  Only 1 RV park charged me a few bucks on the way down and only 1 on the way up.  All were friendly.  Basically don't skip a charge opportunity on 95 cuz the next town is always about 100 mi away with absolutely nothing in between.