1st group ride.

Hang in there!

210 miles??? Piece of cake.

If you enjoy riding long distances, you will do more of it, and will find that a few hundred miles in a day is not very far at all.

There is a fellow in Windsor Ontario who has ridden his CBR-125R over 1100 miles in a day. That is the same 125 that he rode from Key West Florida to Deadhorse Alaska to Key West Florida in June 2011.

Later he rode that same 125 a staggering 1500 miles in one calendar day.

Now I have not done anything like that, but I have often covered more than 500 miles in a day on my 650, and over 300 miles on my 125. This summer I will be riding my 250 exclusively, and expect to ride 400 miles in a day a few times.

When you get used to long distance riding, it is not very difficult, and it is often very rewarding because you see new places and new people all the time, and have lots of fun doing it.

Good luck!
Keith

The day earlier, my boss was skeptical that my bike would make it. I said, "the bike's only got 5000 miles on it and I put about 200 on each week." He said, "oh, it's not the mileage... but the speed limit is 55-65 the whole way and that's what the group will do..." I laughed & told him my bike would handle that speed without a problem. It's funny what cruiser owners think.

I only knew 1 of the riders before today. Interestingly, in the bathroom, I saw a guy with a Honda jacket & I said, "You ride a Honda too?" He said, "yeah, a 1000"... then the guy asked me what bike I had and when I told him a Honda CBR250, he laughed and said I probably had a 1400cc bike. I said, "no, really I got a Honda CBR250." He then said I could try riding his bike if I wanted. Nobody really gave me "that look" but twice when I came out of the restroom and gas station, I saw a group surrounding my bike and facing toward it. They didn't say anything to me about it when I showed up so I'm not 100% sure they were talking about it but somehow they were drawn to that location. 2 guys individually asked me if that was my 1st bike, and I told them I had upgraded from an older Kawasaki Ninja 250 that I rode for 6 weeks, dropped and sold for a profit which I applied to this bike. Overall a good experience.