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what's your best time?

Vic Sage Jan 31 2013 01:25 PM

Just got back from a business trip to Hyannis, MA. Westchester (new rochelle) --> CAPE COD (Hyannis) = 232miles / 3.5 hours (same time back) / Avg = 66 MPH What's the longest and fastest you've gone (via car/bike)?

metirish Jan 31 2013 01:29 PM Re: what's your best time?

The Bronx to Orlando - 1100 miles give or take.........left at 5:30 on a Friday morning, got there at 2am Saturday morning.....traffic between DC and Richmond was hell, an F18 or something crashed in the area......average speed?.....fast in places.....

themetfairy Jan 31 2013 01:34 PM Re: what's your best time?

We did a driving trip with the family that took us to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Hershey in 2002. We broke up the drive to Minneapolis with an overnight stay in Toledo. Halfway to Toledo, we realized that we were out of our minds driving that far with three kids. Not sure how much mileage we put on the minivan, but it was a lot!

Benjamin Grimm Jan 31 2013 01:42 PM Re: what's your best time?

I don't know the distance, but I remember driving 102 MPH on the Autobahn in Germany in the slow lane. There would occasionally be a sonic boom from the left lane as a car would go zooming past and leave me in the dust. I wasn't really comfortable driving that speed, but it seemed like it would be even more dangerous to drive at 70 MPH.

seawolf17 Jan 31 2013 01:50 PM Re: what's your best time?

Commack to Geneseo, 360ish miles, in five hours and fifteen minutes, which puts my average speed around 68 miles an hour.

sharpie Jan 31 2013 01:52 PM Re: what's your best time?

New York to Boulder, CO in 36 hours. Three drivers, no stopping for sleep, only for meals.

Ceetar Jan 31 2013 01:53 PM Re: what's your best time?

I got from Dante's View in Death Valley to the Mirage in Las Vegas in probably just under two hours. It's 120+ miles, with a couple of "slow down small towns/indian reservations" in the middle. I know there was one time I made it from Buffalo to Long Island ~420 miles, in just over six hours. Shorter trip, but I made it from Fair Lawn, NJ, over the GWB and Throgs Neck, to Valley Stream, in 34 minutes. (It's only 33 miles, but given the roads..) sharpie wrote: New York to Boulder, CO in 36 hours. Three drivers, no stopping for sleep, only for meals. This is the winner though.

Edgy MD Jan 31 2013 01:56 PM Re: what's your best time?

Driving to Western New York from the city/island is always longer than it seems.

Frayed Knot Jan 31 2013 02:20 PM Re: what's your best time?

Since you included bikes ... Longest (one day version) - about 105 miles (Massapequa Park L.I. to Montauk). No time for that because the only requirement was that you didn't get there too late to miss the train home. I've done a handful of other "century" rides (biker lingo for 100) at various times and locales but in this case I lived about 2 miles from the start/finish and so biking to and from the kick-off point added the extra couple miles as so is probably my "record". Longest (one week version): about 525 -- across Iowa from the Missouri River/Nebraska border at Council Bluffs to Clinton, IA/Illinois border on the Mississippi River Fastest? -- definitely gotten over 40mph on a good downhill but much over that I start to get fraidy-scared and start tapping the brakes.

Mets – Willets Point Jan 31 2013 02:24 PM Re: what's your best time?

Ceetar wrote: sharpie wrote: New York to Boulder, CO in 36 hours. Three drivers, no stopping for sleep, only for meals. This is the winner though. No mention of bathroom breaks. I assume that they filled up a lot of bottles along the way.

MFS62 Jan 31 2013 02:25 PM Re: what's your best time?

About 120 miles per hour. I did it on the Whitestone Bridge at about 2:00 in the morning. I was coming back from a date in my dad's 1953 Packard Clipper. The car was about 13 years old at the time, and my dad (May he rest in Peace) was a typical Sunday driver. He was never a speeder, so I wanted to see what the car could do (I figured it was unlikely there were speed traps in the middle of the bridge. And I was right. Phew!) Later

Frayed Knot Jan 31 2013 05:42 PM Re: what's your best time?

I guess my longest one-day/solo drive was Long Island to just outside Charleston, SC The distance/time was I think somewhere in the 800 miles/14 hours range - although I wasn't going for speed as I chose a somewhat shorter in distance though probably slower route by abandoning the interstate right after New Jersey [south thru Delaware to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge through Norfolk VA then skirted along the eastern portions of NC & SC while 95 stays much more inland]

themetfairy Jan 31 2013 05:56 PM Re: what's your best time?

That reminds me - we drove from Atlanta to NJ in 1997. We were supposed to spend the night in Virginia on our way home. The long and short is that while we were in Atlanta we learned that the hotel where we were supposed to have stayed had not yet opened for business, and in the pre-Internet age we weren't in a position to find another hotel. The trip was made longer by the fact that we had plans to have lunch with D-Dad's douchebag friends in North Carolina, who insisted that we go to their stuck-up country club for lunch (adding an extra two and a half hours to our already freakin' long day). I think we hit the road at 8 in the morning and got back to our house around 1 am. That was a LONG day!

Fman99 Jan 31 2013 06:15 PM Re: what's your best time?

Made it from Watertown to Rochester, NY, 150 miles, in two hours. Driving my 1992 Toyota Tercel upwards of 90 MPH on route 81 and the NYS Thruway. I was going to see a girl.

Ceetar Jan 31 2013 07:46 PM Re: what's your best time?

Oh, I got up to around 120mph on a road out in Arizona between Vegas and the Grand Canyon. Maintained it for a couple of minutes. (got a ticket on the return trip, doing 82)

sharpie Jan 31 2013 08:48 PM Re: what's your best time?

sharpie wrote: New York to Boulder, CO in 36 hours. Three drivers, no stopping for sleep, only for meals. This is the winner though. Willets Point wroteL No mention of bathroom breaks. I assume that they filled up a lot of bottles along the way. I was 16 so fewer needs for bathroom breaks than now. I'm thinking that all happened during the breaks for meals. Otherwise most of the time one of us was asleep in the back seat.