Get out your camera and start shooting your best/secret rides.
I started porting the camera around because I like looking at twisty roads. They give me sweaty palms. ;)
These are some of my favorite spots to ride I've been to.
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Skaggs Rd. One of the finest pieces of road engineering I've ever seen. Every inch as good as I've ever ridden. Rythm. Best rythm.
Up in Sonoma, Ca. Peppered with Vineyards to taste, rolling hills and Lake Sonoma.
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Hywy 84 up at the highest point. Look fun? Yep. ;D A place every kind of bike converges to. Getting around a dozen Harleys here is as good as it gets. [evil] The top holds the famous Alice's Restaurant. You can see dozens of bikes every weekend hanging out.
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Top of Hywy 9. Tight twistys from Santa Cruz in the deep Redwoods. So dark at Noon you can see your headlights on the trees. Gets up on a high ridge and provides views that take the breath away. At the top here two of my favorite high speed sweepers.
Now yours:
Very nice.
Love to be there !
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Revenge Road between Hocking and Fairfield County , Ohio
Dolph :)
Sorry, no pics, but Redwood Rd. always puts a big smile on my face, and Bear Creek, and Marsh Creek, the River Rd. from Sac to Antioch.......too many good ones in the Bay Area.
Later
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I love that section. This artist agrees: http://www.owenartstudios.com/pg-skylonda-la-honda-ride.html (http://www.owenartstudios.com/pg-skylonda-la-honda-ride.html)
Quote from: sidm on October 01, 2009, 10:18:41 AMI love that section. This artist agrees: http://www.owenartstudios.com/pg-skylonda-la-honda-ride.html (http://www.owenartstudios.com/pg-skylonda-la-honda-ride.html)
I really love the section just after that bit. ;D
Not exactly a secret twisty, but one of my faves still. [moto] The esses and up the hill at turn five.
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LA
Wood!
i'll have to post some when I get home!
Oh, you took pictures of my commute? How nice. :D
Quote from: sidm on October 01, 2009, 10:18:41 AM
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Nebraska really sucks :'(
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Eastern Oregon...
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But watch out!
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Cool pics, Scooby. Where in eastern Oregon are you?
Here are some from last May. My work colleague Eric and I took a road trip from Pdx out to eastern Oregon.
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From last years July trip - western part of Norway - from sea level up to 5,300 feet in a couple of miles [moto]
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Quote from: stopintime on October 03, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
From last years July trip - western part of Norway - from sea level up to 5,300 feet in a couple of miles [moto]
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Didn't the Top Gear guys do a piece on that road?
I seem to remember it , or another very much like it.
84 from 1 to Alice's is my all time favorite place to ride. Years ago I made a point to do that every weekend. I hadn't been up there in a long time and last weekend I had a great ride that took me down then back up 84. On the way up, we didn't have a single car in front of us the whole way up.
Here are some twisty pics from my trip to France this spring:
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Quote from: stopintime on October 03, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
From last years July trip - western part of Norway - from sea level up to 5,300 feet in a couple of miles [moto]
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/2008015.jpg)
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/2008025.jpg)
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/thread. ;D
The roads posted above are now closed due to snow and ice - not safe!
Around the capitol Oslo it's still rideable - I went for a 160 miles ride today - around 45 F [moto]
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M119 in Northern Lower Michigan, its a great road!
I'll start with NC197. It's not for the faint of heart, you'll need to be comfortable with gravel. The pic is of a section that is a sequence of 6 180º turns. A mile later the road goes grave for five miles
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Next we have NC215. Awesome stretch of road, but only when it doesn't look like this:
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Here is is without snow:
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Now, we've got US276 near the Blue Ridge Parkway:
North of the BRP:
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South of the BRP:
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Georgia 28 near Warwoman Rd:
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NC209, area known as "Betsy's Gap"
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For reference, the bike is in the same spot for the next two pics, still on NC209:
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NC28 near Deal's Gap:
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US129 just south of Deal's Gap:
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Hope you enjoyed!
JM
I love you North Carolina!
The lost coast ride to the Avenue of the Giants
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If you make it to Europe you have got to do these runs...
I wish I could have provided this from a motorcycle perspective:
Grimsel Pass - Swiss Alps (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzk4fTx0BfE#normal)
But then again I can on this one:
Stilfser Joch with K 1200 GT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1c53oRkis#normal)
BTW, Swiss and Italian Alps....enjoy
This ride isn't half bad, a three part series( Swiss Alps):
Ofenpass West - Ost Teil 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iRiVyhd74&NR=1#noexternalembed-normal)
Part2:
Ofenpass West - Ost Teil 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e-q9Ts0FpQ#noexternalembed-normal)
Local city traffic:
Ofenpass West - Ost Teil 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=640s5RtLL5I#noexternalembed-normal)
fixed ;D
Dear lord what a sight!
Quote from: Ivan V on October 04, 2009, 03:14:02 AM
Yep, it's similar but not the one.
...
Swiss
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Quote from: Desmostro on October 20, 2009, 04:59:10 AM
fixed ;D
Dear lord what a sight!
Is that the Swiss end of Stelvio? Where is the heart smiley when you need it?
Quote from: DRKWNG on October 04, 2009, 05:19:55 PM
I love you North Carolina!
You don't live in the Wilmington area do you? This area kinda blows for the bike.
My favorite is 666 in North PA-pure evil. I miss it greatly
Great thread!!
Keep 'em comin'
Thx!
I live just a few miles below the WarWoman pic on SC 28. Every time the_Journeyman post pics it reminds me of how lucky I am to live in a temperate rain forest, a "Garden of Eden" with a race track running through it. [thumbsup]
Mts. around here get like 2000 mm of rain a year and that snow pic on 215 is pretty common in the dead of winter.
LA
I've never been, but its on my list of to-do's
http://www.grossglockner.at/en/hochalpenstrasse/motorrad/48-kilometer-fahrspass.htm (http://www.grossglockner.at/en/hochalpenstrasse/motorrad/48-kilometer-fahrspass.htm)
(http://www.cusoon.at/original/1190817743/grossglockner-hochalpenstrasse-fusch-an-der-grossglocknerstrasse-salzburg-themenwege.jpg)
^^^ :o
I'm gonna have to go with the Duke from Layer Cake here...
"YES... make the beast with two backsING... PLEASE...!!!!"
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hwy 178
Quote from: bobspapa on October 27, 2009, 02:35:21 PM
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hwy 178
is that the road to Kerrville? ( I think that's the name of the town)
Quote from: ducpainter on October 27, 2009, 02:51:10 PM
is that the road to Kerrville? ( I think that's the name of the town)
thats one way to get there ;D
the 155 is another
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for some reason both of those roads looks familiar. :-\
Some Arizona road whoring: 8)
White Spars (my favorite for often frequented roads):
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Mingus Mountain:
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Devil's Hwy/Rte 191 aka:Rte 666:
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Salt River Canyon:
(http://gerhartdesignstudio.com/SRC2.jpg)
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Man i could go down that road everyday,very nice [thumbsup]
Our little slice of heaven...CA-1, just south of Tomales:
Marin County - Highway 1 - The Racetrack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStKjA3ZIu0#normal)
We usually ride it back & forth a few times ;D
The aforementioned Skaggs Springs Rd:
Skaggs Springs Rd - 2009-09-02 - A Bit More Lively (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDQL1c0PFU#normal)
And finally, even our superslab can be nice...when you have a bridge to cross:
Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge - 31 Oct 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxs-rk5ikSw#t=0m40s)
Snapped a couple of pictures on one of the goat trails (Alpine) this weekend:
(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/20091101_alpine01.JPG)
(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/20091101_alpine02.JPG)
Mt.Lemmon, AZ. Fun.
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n85/dietrichpfeifer/MtLemmon11-22-09004.jpg)
One of the better roads here on Oahu.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Makiki+Heights+Dr&daddr=Makiki+Heights+Dr+to:Makiki+Heights+Dr+to:Tantalus+Dr+to:21.309027,-157.830319&hl=en&geocode=FQslRQEdmK-X9g%3BFd4qRQEdHLKX9g%3BFbQ3RQEdWKuX9g%3BFbQ-RQEd8ayX9g%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=4&sz=16&via=1,2,3&sll=21.311645,-157.828517&sspn=0.012914,0.020342&ie=UTF8&ll=21.320321,-157.820234&spn=0.025826,0.040684&z=15 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Makiki+Heights+Dr&daddr=Makiki+Heights+Dr+to:Makiki+Heights+Dr+to:Tantalus+Dr+to:21.309027,-157.830319&hl=en&geocode=FQslRQEdmK-X9g%3BFd4qRQEdHLKX9g%3BFbQ3RQEdWKuX9g%3BFbQ-RQEd8ayX9g%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=4&sz=16&via=1,2,3&sll=21.311645,-157.828517&sspn=0.012914,0.020342&ie=UTF8&ll=21.320321,-157.820234&spn=0.025826,0.040684&z=15)
Hahaha, I grew up near buckeye lake... small world.
Quote from: DoubleEagle on September 30, 2009, 09:27:35 PM
Very nice.
Love to be there !
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Revenge Road between Hocking and Fairfield County , Ohio
Dolph :)
here's a pic of pines to palm highway when a few of us went there a few years back..
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Mingus Mountain:
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That must be John with the black jacket and white helmet!