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Title: Favorite area to ride Post by Steampowered Boy on 07/24/12 at 19:35:10 How about posting some maps about your favorite places to ride? This may be an obvious one, but it's so much fun. http://goo.gl/maps/R3vi My girlfriend used to live in the Wrightwood area so i had an excuse to make the trip at least once a week. She'd always complain, "why does it take you a couple hours to get here?" ;) |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by SuperSavage on 07/24/12 at 21:19:09 A few weeks back I went to The "Devil's Den Loop" in Danbury Ct. There were a lot of bikes out on the roads. Beautiful scenery, good roads and lot's of sweeping turns. I highly recommend it. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Paraquat on 07/25/12 at 09:33:31 Heh. Another CT dude. (I know there's a member location dealy). I like to ride through Harwinton and around the Bristol reservoir. That's the only good part of Bristol. I've been know to ride where ever the road takes me though. I like having a route though as one time I almost ended up taking a back road into Mass. (There was no sign as a warning and Mass. requires brain buckets.) --Steve |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Pine on 07/27/12 at 09:39:48 Natchez Trace Parkway https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en http://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm This is a Federal park... no commercial traffice allowed Section 4.21 Speed Limits (b) The speed limit on the Natchez Trace Parkway is 50 m.p.h. except as otherwise posted. Basically its a road made into a park. The area along the side of the road is maintained like a park and while on the road, you feel like your out in the country. Very few turn offs, no stores .. jut miles and miles of open road. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by gerald.hughes on 07/27/12 at 11:57:09 From out West, I vote for The Lemon. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Serowbot on 07/27/12 at 13:05:00 4A485F4C41490345584A45485E2D0 wrote:
At speed,... it delivers a certain "pucker factor"... ;D... |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by 360k+ on 07/28/12 at 08:44:51 Any or all of coastal Hwy 1 from San Jose Del Cabo, Baja to Westport, WA. It's about the same distance as crossing the states from coast to coast, but every mile is awsome. Another favorite is the 4 Sierra mountain passes: Hwy 50, Hwy 4, Hwy 108, and Hwy 120. I've done all 4 in a weekend with a Saturday nite campout in the middle. The passes are especially good in the Autumn when the Aspens on the Nevada side of the Sierras turn yellow / orange. BTW, a lot of folks don't know this, but old Hwy 50 starts in Sacramento, CA and can be traced all the way across the US to the Atlantic at Ocean City, Maryland. The thing is, it's not an Interstate Hwy, per se. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Paraquat on 07/28/12 at 09:19:51 5C5A4942020E0809023B0 wrote:
Sooooo... no toll booths? --Steve |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Arizuno on 07/28/12 at 10:51:15 Haven't learned to post pics or maps (closet Luddite), but: Rt. 89 south out of Prescott, AZ to Kirkland Junction, then (Yavapai) CR 15 to Kirkland, then up Iron Springs Road through Skull Valley and back into Prescott. Or the reverse. Begins & ends in Ponderosa pine country, drops from 5300' elevation to about 4000' (high grass land) & back. Great roads, little traffic, stunning country. About 53 miles of superior therapy. Decades of excuses for not getting a bike (mortgage, kids, the usual), were rendered irrelevant when I moved to within 1/4 mile of the beginning of the above loop. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by 360k+ on 07/28/12 at 21:30:31 1524372434302431450 wrote:
Sooooo... no toll booths?[/quote] Toll booths? We don't have those in Calif. :) What I meant is it's not a federal interstate, but more like old route 66. My heritage is Okies and my Grandpa and Grandma came out on Hwy 50 so they could work on the farms in Arvin, Ca for a buck-a-day here in the land of plenty (circa 1930's). Anyway, I've ridden it C to C just to re-live the experience in a nostalgic kind of way. It' was an interesting ride, but more suited to an author or reporter of small town vignettes in out of the way cafe's, town squares, etc. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by SuperSavage on 07/28/12 at 22:30:22 The North Fork of Long Island, NY. Past all of the vineyards and on to Claudios located in GreenPort. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by John_D FSO on 07/29/12 at 16:28:25 Pretty much any of the roads up around Mount St. Helens. :D http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/2011%20Ride%20Pics/th_100_0155.jpg (http://s626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/2011%20Ride%20Pics/?action=view¤t=100_0155.jpg) http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/2011%20Ride%20Pics/th_100_0200a.jpg (http://s626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/2011%20Ride%20Pics/?action=view¤t=100_0200a.jpg) http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/th_DSCF0592.jpg (http://s626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/?action=view¤t=DSCF0592.jpg) |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Blinky on 07/30/12 at 12:38:56 http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/2435560/ Why, Shakertown of course, that is unless someone knows of a Thumperville or the like. |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by EJID on 07/30/12 at 13:01:11 Here's the loop I am hoping to be able to ride one of the next weekends that I get available. It will take me up and around the Grand Tetons and over Teton Pass. None of it will be on the superslab, but quite a bit ends up on the state highway system with 55MPH speed limits. (About 310 Miles - 7 hrs riding time) http://goo.gl/maps/mYsfS Another loop that I want to try and make is this one that will take me down around Bear Lake and through Logan canyon. (About 250 Miles - 6 hrs riding time) http://goo.gl/maps/9itq Just wish I had more time to ride. :( |
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Title: Re: Favorite area to ride Post by Starlifter on 07/30/12 at 18:59:52 Vermont state Rt.100...from the Quebec border to the Mass. state line. Right down the center of the state and right down the spine of the green mountains. Beautiful. |
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