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My longest trip with the sidecar (I still consider myself a beginner) was up to Mike Gordon's OSMR and back.......about 600 miles one way. I borrowed a bike for the Saturday ride because I knew I couldn't keep up in the sidecar rig. My fault......not the bike's. Went up in two days and came back in one. I "think" I can do that for days.....if I plan on 3-400 mile days. BUT.......the older I get (the longer I wait) those days are looking more and more like a pipe dream.

It's a LONG story but the rigs been off the road for years now........waiting on an engine. Fingers crossed that will change soon.

Not that it's particularly germane to the conversation but my memory of the "longest distance award" went to a chap from a western Canada province who rode in on a BSA C11 single. Not that my memory can always be relied on but it stuck in my mind because my very first BSA was a 1952 C11 I acquired for next to nothing when I was 16 years old. Happy to be corrected if I'm mistaken on that
Don R.

Assuming you're talking about the 2006 International meet, I would defer to your info, as I was not present at the awards ceremony.

That was Steve Snoen ... rode from British Columbia 3000 miles across the Canadian plains on a C12 to Brimfield, and then back. Held the throttle wide open for hours at a time watching those interminable roads across the prairie roll by. He said the bike never missed a beat. Camped near us, carried all his gear on the bike ... Amazing to me.

Lannis