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Reply #15 - 09/20/04 at 17:01:23

Just been on my longest and favourite ride so far. Route 14 on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada - from Victoria to Port Renfrew (the trail head to the famous West Coast Hiking Trail). Beautiful, wild, twisty, challenging ride, about 220km return. Great views across the Juan de Fuca Strait to the Olympic Mountains in the state of Washington. Very little traffic, sunny, 10deg Celcius to start (bbrrrrr!) but warmed up to 16 degrees by lunchtime. Some cool little cafes along the route!

Big deal you say. Well it is for me - a newbie rider on my new 2004 Savage. What a terrific motorbike and what a lovely ride. I learned a lot today and hope to do that route many more times in the future. Vancouver Island is a terrific place to own a motorbike.

Larry Gagnon

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Daemon Ex Member	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #16 - 09/20/04 at 17:19:48 One of my favorite rides I haven't made this year is Highway 101 in Oregon state, riding along the coast. Its time to make that run again soon.
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Reply #17 - 09/20/04 at 19:12:53

Daemon wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

One of my favorite rides I haven't made this year is Highway 101 in Oregon state, riding along the coast. Its time to make that run again soon.

My grandmother used to live in Medford Oregon (near Ashland in the southern part of the state). It is such beautiful country out there. The mountains, the coast...Oregon has it all. Have you ever been to Crater Lake? It's beautiful and I bet the riding around there would be good.

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Daemon Ex Member	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #18 - 09/20/04 at 20:19:59 Susan, I don't believe I have. I love spending as much time as possible along the Oregon coast though, I spent some time in Kauai and some parts of the Oregon coast look just like it.
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Reply #19 - 09/22/04 at 22:16:22

Ok, I just got back from a near 500 mile ride today from Yakima, WA to Asotin and back. Variable speeds, nice twists. I do see one thing I need to do to my 02.... install lighting so I can see my speedometer at night. The LED for the High beams doesn't glow enough to see any gauges. Fortunately there were enough semi's on the road that I could pass occassionally and see my speedo in their headlights going by them. A nice glow circle or lighted speedo faceplate is in my near future.

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Reply #20 - 09/26/04 at 19:43:55

If you go to www.byways.org, you can get a FREE map of National Scenic Byways.

I got one earlier this year, then we modified our route from Los Angeles to Spokane Washington to include several of the byways. WELL worth the changes!!! We travelled alongside the Payette River in Idaho (which was not on our original route) and it was beautiful.

One of our goals during this trip was to also do a side-trip to take in the Beartooth Scenic Byway in Montana/Wyoming, which was called "The most scenic drive in America" by Charles Kuralt. It was absolutely awesome. The top elevation is something like 10,947 ft., so you gotta do it in the summer months. In the winter it's snowmobile trails.

Anyway, thanks to this Freebie, I saw some spectacular scenery from the back of a Honda GoldWing this summer. (I also told my hubby that my goal now is to make sure we see every single one of the 95 Scenic Byways!)

It's definitely worth a trip to their site to get yourself a map if you like to travel. 8)

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #21 - 09/27/04 at 04:05:19 From Sockbridge to Pooley Bridge then along the right hand side of lake Ullswater, through Patterdale and Glenridding and up to the top of Kirkstone pass (nice little pub) down the other side through a lot of twisties to Bowness on (lake) Windermere in the middle of the Lake district and home again. Clive W
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Susan Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline Been AWOL but I'm back... Posts: 682 Eastern PA Gender:	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #22 - 09/27/04 at 07:17:58 2wheelingwoman wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: If you go to www.byways.org, you can get a FREE map of National Scenic Byways... Thanks for the tip, I ordered one this morning.
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Ed L. Guest	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #23 - 09/27/04 at 16:21:24 A real nice ride in PA is from the Delaware Water Gap south on 611 through Easton to 32 which is River road down to New Hope. Cross over the bridge and head back up river on the New Jersey side. Can't do the ride right now, they are still cleaning up from all the flooding after Ivan.
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bassman29 Ex Member	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #24 - 09/27/04 at 17:25:32 Quote: Thanks for the tip, I ordered one this morning Yes, thanks - I ordered one too.
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Best/Favorite Rides Reply #25 - 09/28/04 at 06:26:53 Just ordered one myself. While browsing that site, I found a link to a good one for anyone traveling Texas at www.traveltex.com. Another great one is the National Park Service at www.nps.gov. Good stuff. Now if I can only get the wife over her fear of bikes (and the outdoors in general).
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Reply #26 - 09/29/04 at 03:13:25

For those in the western NC, north Geogia, and Tennessee, I found the Tail of the Dragon, the Cherohala skyway, and the surrounding areas to be a great place to ride. There is a VERY biker friendly motel in Robbinsville, NC too, complete with a "bikes only" parking area.

If you go and plan to spend the night AND you like to have a beer or two, you better stay in an adjacent county though because Robbinsville is "dry". Tongue

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

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