# 848 long distance?
**URL:** https://forum.docgb.org/t/848-long-distance/1274
**Category:** 4 Valve Belt Drives
**Created:** [January 6, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.docgb.org/t/848-long-distance/1274 "2014-01-06T20:25:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Pugwash](https://forum.docgb.org/u/Captain_Pugwash)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.docgb.org/t/848-long-distance/1274/1 "2014-01-06T20:25:27Z")
[size=150]Hi, Can anyone help. Has anyone done long distance ride on an 848. Thinking of buying one trying to get honest opinion. I know it will be fun on short thrash but how about long ride talking 300+ miles in day. [/size]
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Pugwash](https://forum.docgb.org/u/Captain_Pugwash)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.docgb.org/t/848-long-distance/1274/2 "2014-01-14T19:33:59Z")
[size=150]I took the 848 Corse SE out for a 90 mile test ride before buying it on Saturday. I came back with aching shoulders and wrists. But it was great fun, I took it from Plymouth up the A38. Dual carriageway was good on the wrists, but could see nothing in the mirrors, which I didn’t like as it impedes fast overtakes if you have to move your arm and head to see if all is clear behind. I went back across Dartmoor which was fun. But got the wrists when stuck behind cars.
Anyway it was fun to ride but not for me. I couldn’t ride it long distances, and I need a bike I can commute on, tour on and have fun around the Cornish lanes on.
I bought a Hyperstrada. Grin factor 9 and more practical.
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