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Curves, curves and curves. Show us your favorite curves.
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No, but you could get a child support payment
JimVonBaden
Kool Aid!
Chickenstrip
Well-known member
^ Blue Ridge Parkway?
Been there and paid for that (for 14 years), and she wasn't even as hot as this subject... but at least she was a redhead
matty
Border raider.
I like the lake district passes i make the pilgrimage several times a year , it never gets old and i learn something new every time i do them.
Getting it like this touristless is often hard to acchieve but hit it right get a good clean run and if the weather and sheep behave its euphoric no other word gets close to it.
Not me, but you will get the idea and thankfully this guy had the sense to refrain from including stupid music.
Getting it like this touristless is often hard to acchieve but hit it right get a good clean run and if the weather and sheep behave its euphoric no other word gets close to it.
Not me, but you will get the idea and thankfully this guy had the sense to refrain from including stupid music.
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Texas Hill Country
Mike
I like the lake district passes i make the pilgrimage several times a year , it never gets old and i learn something new every time i do them.
Getting it like this touristless is often hard to acchieve but hit it right get a good clean run and if the weather and sheep behave its euphoric no other word gets close to it.
Not me, but you will get the idea and thankfully this guy had the sense to refrain from including stupid music.
Wow, not a road you'd ever attempt to carve up but awesome just the same. Fabulous countryside, I'm envious here in flatland Florida. Interesting, a touch of spark knock at the 1:25 mark, has to be the altitude and fuel I'd guess.
matty
Border raider.
The videos dont do the steepness true justice if you understand.
The lakes passes are all awesome and its beautiful country (wordsworth country, you know the i wandered lonley as a cloud bloke).
I have done those passes on all sorts of bikes over the last four decades or so, and i genuinely think, ny XT600E of 20+ years with my XL500s of 17 and 12 years respectively are the best bikes for those passes, with my lowered gear ratio 2003 DRZ400S a close 3rd.
Road bikes i think the torquey tractable 1973 Triumph TR7V 750 tiger was nice in there, and even the XS650 yamahas did it good and i was nearly always two up with her indoors back then too.
good old bikes the XS650 not esspecialy great at anything, but dont fail at much either.
Been up a lot of times on varrious T150/ t150v tridents they never fail to impress me if set up good and fit and healthy they are Real dispite their Trubled British industry Time line.
I think my trials background always pays off when the going gets steep or techy. and these lakes passes are technical in places and catch some riders who should really know better out often. Not bragging here but never failed and closest i ever came was a foot down and bog but no stall thankfully i recovered. it was a jap import early 90s ZX9 streetfighter build of mine with no european carb heaters installed on that import, and it was mid november running like a stuck pig.
Mate bought that ZX9 off me fited some breakers yard carbs uk spec with heaters, and it was a different bike.
all good fun, if any of you visit uk look at the Lakes of you get time its a lovely place, and although touristy in places is wild enough country to offer real remote beauty that area ouses in gallons.
I like the lake district passes i make the pilgrimage several times a year , it never gets old and i learn something new every time i do them.
Getting it like this touristless is often hard to acchieve but hit it right get a good clean run and if the weather and sheep behave its euphoric no other word gets close to it.
Not me, but you will get the idea and thankfully this guy had the sense to refrain from including stupid music.
I would love riding those roads. Those are what I call "paved Goat trails". I ride a lot of paved goat trails here in the SE USA. They are similar to the roads in the video in that they are narrow, steep, curvy and rough. The scenery is very different as they are typically tree lined and don't have the scenic vistas. Our roads also have significantly less traffic. It is not unusual to not see any cars on these roads. Of course we also ride on the right side of the road but when the road is only one lane wide does it really matter??
Some curves/paved goat trails in middle Tennessee.
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I normally post pics but here is a video that shows some of the curves in my local riding area. There are much more curvy roads in the Blue Ridge mountains to the East but these roads are still fun. This Video was made by a friend. I was leading the ride for the first part of the day then later the lead was taken over by a guy riding a Harley formerly owned by Travis Pastrana.
Notice the almost total lack of traffic and these were roads that actually had two lanes, not the paved goat trails I mentioned in the last post. It's best to have some good speakers for this. The howl of the FZ1 starting around 1:30 is music worth listening to!
Notice the almost total lack of traffic and these were roads that actually had two lanes, not the paved goat trails I mentioned in the last post. It's best to have some good speakers for this. The howl of the FZ1 starting around 1:30 is music worth listening to!
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AirbusFlieger
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US191
Between Three Way, AZ and Alpine, AZ.
103 miles of “tail of the dragon” first and second gear turns combined with a few fast sweepers, thousands of feet of elevation change, vistas that look out over hundreds of miles, one of the worlds largest open pit mines, ram, mule deer, coes deer, elk, bear, rattlers sunning on the road, coyotes, frickin’ wolves , and no traffic.
Don’t go off the edge.
Between Three Way, AZ and Alpine, AZ.
103 miles of “tail of the dragon” first and second gear turns combined with a few fast sweepers, thousands of feet of elevation change, vistas that look out over hundreds of miles, one of the worlds largest open pit mines, ram, mule deer, coes deer, elk, bear, rattlers sunning on the road, coyotes, frickin’ wolves , and no traffic.
Don’t go off the edge.
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AirbusFlieger
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Was there gas available up there?My SuperHawk at, appropriately, Hawk's Nest, Rt 97, just outside of Port Jervis.
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AirbusFlieger
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That road has been on my bucket list since it was route 666 the "Devils Highway".
Steve - YYZ
Scooter-Trash!
I love the roads on São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. The coastal road around the island has breathtaking curves along the coast and scenery to die for. When you've had enough of the coastal road, then head up the sides of the islands two major volcanos. Mountains and coastal in one location with great food to eat.
