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Just a touring screen, good gear, thorough planning, and a tank bag big enough to use as a pillow when needed.

As a marathon runner, but not a motorcycle rider, I can shed some light on the “Why?” aspect for you. It’s the same reason people sky dive (a blast, btw), spend weeks climbing huge/dangerous mountains or eat however many hot dogs the record is up to. It’s there to be done. As long as there are challenges to do things,…

Agreed, He probably built the bike just how he needed it, and aside from the bummer of losing a potentially expensive or difficult to source unit, his entire run could have been scrapped! That said, poor planning on his part! Maybe mix-in an enclosed trailer on the chase vehicle next time?

Shower always wakes me up, makes me feel alert and ready for things. It’s totally psychological. I’m in and out of it in five minutes, but I’d bet the benefit would more than make up for the lost time.

What was his fuel range with the BMW? Did he add an extra tank(s)?

I mean, I would never do one. But that’s still man training for and putting just is body against a task. I have to feel like the satisfaction of completing that is pretty special, regardless of time.

Exactly, the same reason Ironman and marathons are stupid.

“I don’t get it, so it’s stupid” is a strangely unnuanced opinion from you. For someone open-minded enough to find the joy in driving whatever unsprung tractor Harley is pedaling this year it seems odd.

I have done a couple of IronButts, I did them both on a 2006 Yamaha FZ1... A bike not really known for its great range per tank. Here’s how it goes:

I imagine that with the physical effort required to keep going for 18 hours...guy was pretty dirty, smelly, and probably had “swamp ass” lol.

When I have to work two shifts in a row - especially when the second is overnight, id rather shower than sleep. It seems to create an artificial divider between the time periods. Makes it feel closer to a new day.

His survival is a glowing endorsement of the BMW K1600, too...

As Hoozh essentially says, your negative opinion is not productive and people don’t like to read bashers of achievement. Your article has no focus, it just keeps saying that you don’t understand why he would do something like this.

Why all the snark and put-downs?

The guy set a crazy endurance record, and you seem hell-bent on taking him to task about everything.

Elon Musk does dreams bigs. His vision is full of promises of a better future. Innovation and miracles are both hard to pin down, and are on no-mans time schedule.

This wasn’t a cannonball (cannonball denotes a race with multiple competitors). This was not a race, It’s a transcontinental record for the history books.

Your assumptions would be wrong. I spend a few days with Alex and he was gracious and posed for photos for his fans that came out to meet us along this journey. I was at the Jalopnik Film Fest in L.A., where we made final preparations for this run. He excused himself from the table and told a father and son that they…

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