Post by prodigit on Nov 6, 2012 20:09:59 GMT -5
So, today I was going to take my 50cc scoot (TaoTao ATM50-A1) to a 'big' 50 mile tour through the everglades.
I probably did the stupidest thing ever!
Well first of all, the road was from Google maps. Turns out that the road no longer was there, so I wanted to take a second road home, wasn't there neither!
So I decide to take the next available road back home, but did not want to return on the same road from where I came from, because I already was driving on the road for almost 2 hours!
I thought I might as well do the trip, rather than returning.
Turns out I had to make a 200 mile trip today!
Crocodiles laying on the road, one of them 6ft away from where I was going! That was scary!
Middle of the trip, the temperature drastically dropped 25 degrees, and became cloudy. I was only wearing a t-shirt!
If that wasn't enough, it started raining as well, somewhere halfway the trip, so no returning possible.
And by the time I was by the end of the everglades, there was only one way home, the highway!
That sucked!
I think I seldomly have found myself to be in such a sucking situation!
The only good was that the Tao lasted the whole trip, and on the highway, I had wind in the back, driving between 42 and 47MPH.
I swear, I thought I was going to die!
First of all, the cold, I was shivering, like really really cold (had only a T-shirt on)
and second, if the bike would have broken down, it would have taken me about 20-30 hours of walking to get back home!
I was driving WOT almost all the time to get home before dark!
Took me 6 hours to get home, with 4 pitstops: 2 fuel ups, 1 lunch break, and 1 cop stopped me for driving a 50cc scoot on the shoulder of the highway. He told me I had to drive on the street.
Turns out most of the time I was driving 47,5MPH, not too far off the highway minimum speed of 50MPH. 3 other patrol cars passed me by without asking questions or doing weird or so...
On my trip, I also got lucky twice:
1- I broke my speed record, again! A truck was passing by, catching the wind, and my Tao did 50MPH for a while on GPS!
The meter was horizontal, far beyond where the meter goes!
Crazy!
I didn't think the bike was capable of that!
2- My gasoline lasted to the red, before the next gas station! I barely made it!
So finally home, seriously undercooled (feel sick/feverish), full of black asphalt (seemingly along the way some ashes where falling out of the skies from burned everglades, sore shoulders (as the steering bar is too far forward for a tall man), and 300km ahead on the odo, I'm hitting the hay!
Sure is the stupidest thing I've ever done!
I probably did the stupidest thing ever!
Well first of all, the road was from Google maps. Turns out that the road no longer was there, so I wanted to take a second road home, wasn't there neither!
So I decide to take the next available road back home, but did not want to return on the same road from where I came from, because I already was driving on the road for almost 2 hours!
I thought I might as well do the trip, rather than returning.
Turns out I had to make a 200 mile trip today!
Crocodiles laying on the road, one of them 6ft away from where I was going! That was scary!
Middle of the trip, the temperature drastically dropped 25 degrees, and became cloudy. I was only wearing a t-shirt!
If that wasn't enough, it started raining as well, somewhere halfway the trip, so no returning possible.
And by the time I was by the end of the everglades, there was only one way home, the highway!
That sucked!
I think I seldomly have found myself to be in such a sucking situation!
The only good was that the Tao lasted the whole trip, and on the highway, I had wind in the back, driving between 42 and 47MPH.
I swear, I thought I was going to die!
First of all, the cold, I was shivering, like really really cold (had only a T-shirt on)
and second, if the bike would have broken down, it would have taken me about 20-30 hours of walking to get back home!
I was driving WOT almost all the time to get home before dark!
Took me 6 hours to get home, with 4 pitstops: 2 fuel ups, 1 lunch break, and 1 cop stopped me for driving a 50cc scoot on the shoulder of the highway. He told me I had to drive on the street.
Turns out most of the time I was driving 47,5MPH, not too far off the highway minimum speed of 50MPH. 3 other patrol cars passed me by without asking questions or doing weird or so...
On my trip, I also got lucky twice:
1- I broke my speed record, again! A truck was passing by, catching the wind, and my Tao did 50MPH for a while on GPS!
The meter was horizontal, far beyond where the meter goes!
Crazy!
I didn't think the bike was capable of that!
2- My gasoline lasted to the red, before the next gas station! I barely made it!
So finally home, seriously undercooled (feel sick/feverish), full of black asphalt (seemingly along the way some ashes where falling out of the skies from burned everglades, sore shoulders (as the steering bar is too far forward for a tall man), and 300km ahead on the odo, I'm hitting the hay!
Sure is the stupidest thing I've ever done!
not sure that is any evidence of endurance. I'm not saying it isn't reliable just that what you have there based on the report is 8 25 mile trips with an average speed (including stops) of 30 mph. It is nice to see that he made it but this is endurance racing 
