Todays ride included a unfamiliar road , something that resembles a road  started out a nice two lane up the hill then a line on each side and no defined lanes up and over the summit. Some super tight turns,off camber, poor road repairs,wash boards that almost made my helmet spin around and bicyclists. Your basic unmaintenced county road. Approaching the summit I slowed to check out the view,awsome view into the Central Valley overlooking grassy hills & wind farms.Glad I slowed at the summit hard right then steep rough road. My Tracker would eat this road up but I'm on the sporty and it's the other way around,I'm gettin a work out. Here's the weird part I get down the other side thru cattle country and come up to flashing lights near a power substation 12 PG&E trucks,3 County Sheriffs,a long flatbed truck and a small dozer/backhoe from the ranch I guess , flatbed loaded with 9 or 10 DEAD cows and trying to get another one on with the dozer. A bizarre sight that's for sure. Anyway that road was so nasty I just had to turn around and do it again. I was exhausted by the time I got home , just over 70 mile loop , what fun !!!

Yeah it takes 2 to stand one up , 3 or 4 to flip one over.  I don't even know  if I could right my sportster if it was laying flat on the road , keeps me from doing anything too dumb. That was a nasty road I was on yesterday, what a workout , miss the tracker! One hellaofa view from the summit !

Almost comical,when I feel my bike(s) are pulling too far into a turn I just turn up the volume till it feels right again. Rookie H/D pilot+uphill hairpin+Bad spot in the road=off road excursion, hope no one got hurt ! Sounds screwy but I prefer to ride alone , like you said it makes for a intense experience , exploring back roads is so much fun only thing I worry about is fuel !

I got on Gargle Maps and found back roads that get me from home to the doctor and lake. I'm working on getting it right going home. I still get where I want to be,it's just not as direct..

Roughnecking out south of Sierra Blanca Texas gave me the opportunity to explore out in the west Texas desert. Found some neat stuff out there. The major obstacles were long stretches of deep sand and herds of cattle that would stand in the ding dang Road,, and no, I Never honked the horn.
I reported the things I found to my coworkers. John had a Suburban, and three of us went to sight see. More than an hour off of asphalt was a place with a grill about fifteen feet long,the seats at the card tables were toilets on casters with cushy seats, and an RV park...
What all Really happened there I never knew.
We drilled through Indian Hot Springs. When we were tripping pipe in the winter the pipe kept us from just freezing. We sent scientific thermometers down, wrapped in burlap. Some broke, some reported well over two hundred degrees. One week it never got above freezing, and hit negative ten one night. Work outside in THAT for 84 hours in seven days..

Cattle experiments !? Oldnslow was right it might make a good Moive !
Yeah thought that sheriff rubbing sun block on his bald head looked a little ALIEN ! Very well disguised ! Who would think twice !