A rider from the US has beat his country’s cross-continental speed record.
Earlier this week, Carl Reese (of California) made the classic Los Angeles-New York City run in a record 38 hours, 49 minutes aboard a BMW K1600 GT. The previous record for the 4,553-km sprint was 42 hours, set by George Egloff in 1983.
Reese has been working on breaking existing speed records for months now, in various vehicles. He’s no stranger to this sort of work, having already broken LA-NYC records in electric and autonomous cars, but he says the challenge of the motorcycle record was incredibly exhausting. As he put it, “Unless you have completed Army boot camp, it is difficult to relate the mental and physical exhaustion … The immense level of fatigue driving a motorcycle solo for 38 hours is like finishing a UFC fight, then getting hit by a freight train. This was far more difficult than any other transcontinental record I’ve set to date.”
Reese is working on a documentary about cross-continental cannonball runs; you can see some of the video footage for that above.
A America rider rode from Vancouver to Halifax in 52 hours on a Ducati 1100 multistrata in 2006
More details at http://www.carlreese.net
Would have loved to partner up with him on this run?#mum #son #bike
Can that even be enjoyable?
Not according to what he said.
AVERAGE speed of 73 mph. That’s smokin’, especially if they had to stop to replace the rear tire as it seems to imply in the vid!!!
It’s neat how the vid shows that many of the record trans-continental USA runs were run by beemers. Awesome!