27:25 - NY to LA

drkelly said:
I guess I am getting old, but this seems really dumb and dangerous to everyone else.
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drkelly said:
I guess I am getting old, but this seems really dumb and dangerous to everyone else.
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The older I get, the less I want my kids knowing what I did on cross-country rides on a Hayabusa, or VIR on various bikes/vehicles.
 
jeepinmatt said:
I am pretty much always racing my own times everywhere I go. My car has a tripmeter that shows average speed, time, fuel economy for the trip, etc. I can average 60mph easy, stopping for pee breaks every 30 minutes. 65, not hard, 70, doable, 75 is getting difficult. 80 requires a lot of dedication. 85 is almost impossible over 50 miles. It just gets exponentially harder from there. Just to offset 30 minutes of fuel stops, you would have to AVERAGE 150mph for nearly 1.5hrs. To average 100mph cross country is completely absurd.
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Math is hard.
 
shawn said:
Math is hard.
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No...just trying to figure out how many traffic jams or small towns they must be hitting. I just can't fathom hitting a top speed of 193mph, how wide open you could run it with the time on desolate roads out west where they didn't see anyone for miles (when I'm out that way, it's nothing to see the rental hit 120), on a route I'd expect to be mainly highway, with the help and resources they had...I would have just expected a higher sustained speed. Especially considering my own experiences...in my head these guys are setting cruise at 120+ and peaking around 200. Articles have said they had no police interference, so if you’re blocked in, take to the median or shoulder or passihg in a double yellow would all be on the table for me. Which is also why I was asking about fuel tables, maybe a point of diminishing returns speed vs fuel consumption.
 
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They ran interstate the whole way...no 2 lanes or stop lights, except potentially at fuel stops and at the start and end destination, however even Ed used stop light changers in his car. Traffic jams and weather...yea....Everything fell into place for them that's for sure.

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UTfball68 said:
No...just trying to figure out how many traffic jams or small towns they must be hitting.
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That's part of it. Averages are a bitch. For every ten minutes you get stuck doing 55mph, you need ten minutes at 140mph to keep the average up.

As has been said, cannonball times are made on the east coast. Once you get West of the Mississippi, the average just goes down. I think Roy lost 30 minutes in TX or AZ because of traffic.
 
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