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Welcome Chris, I also live in California. Suppose to be 76 tomorrow, Maybe I'll ride the bike to work. LOL. Put almost 100 miles on my Combat on Sat. Rode down the coast, Although it was kinda cool 65. Take care, Chuck.
 
Hortons Norton said:
Welcome Chris, I also live in California. Suppose to be 76 tomorrow, Maybe I'll ride the bike to work. LOL. Put almost 100 miles on my Combat on Sat. Rode down the coast, Although it was kinda cool 65. Take care, Chuck.

Next summer it will be 149 in the shade, then you will wish your freezer was big enough for you and the bike :twisted:

Jean
 
Ain't that the truth! It'll easy hit high 100's to teens here around july to september.
Still having trouble making the phone work with the botophucket deal. Ill have to try on the computator gizmo later.
 
ludwig said:
caddy chris said:
.. we have good weather year round..
Welcome .
You the weather , we the roads ..

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I can only imagine what Hobot would do on that road!!
 
My woman just looked over my shoulder and saw those pics.
She now wants to now go to Belgium and ride those roads.
(add it to the bucket list!)
 
Roads? Lake Tahoe and Yosemite are full of them. Not quite like like that switchback madness you have, but only 2hrs to either from my door. Or if I want to go west, I can ride the PCH. Also 2hrs away. North of the bay to Mendocino or down to Big Sur. Going to try to hit them all this summer.

California dreamin' ... spent the day in S.F. today. 62 and sunny. Sorry. :wink:
 
Yep! California does have some good roads for riding.
We are always on the hunt for the best ones - Although going to Belgium in search of them is probably going to be a stretch.

The road that I live on here in southern Colorado called "The Million Dollar Highway".
It's not too bad for motorsicklin', check it out if you ever get the chance.
 
I can only imagine what Hobot would do on that road!!


Boy Howdy so do I - that is once i get over the dog with tail between legs feeling.
What so especially neat about places like that to me, is One you can see what the hell is in the road ahead of you and Two you can creep up on each aspect of handling, lean limits while going safe secure, rear skip out limits while going safe and secure, front skip out limits while going safe and secure, then ease into combing these already knowing how much G's before full stick handing evolves into other ways around.

Going by size of cars to sense the tighter radii, ~20-30 ft, and the mostly level crown, ie: not a banked turn just sloped to Mt grade, its pretty darn similar to where I may never ever test Ms Peel again into pure blind narrows. Just here its only a few miles in a row and 1000-2000 ft attitude, not dozens of miles in a row in the clouds!

I'd aim straight to almost farthest deepest point close to the road edge but get there but upper acceleration and lean till the rear slips out form under and swings wide to bleed some speed off w/o brakes till it hi side jerks bike back up, but rear has already swung around far enough the whole bike is aligned to the next most open path and nothing for it but NAIL it to zoom into the next one. As long as ya can keep accelerating pretty harshly no need to slow up. BUT as some point the hi side will fling across a lane, so then I'd use the straight of relax and slow down again while perfectly upright and tires in line..

The deal with motorcycles is they are most dangerous in a steady state lean condition close to limits, especially so if no thrust or drag on rear tire. But what's so neat about motorcycles is they can take incredable short almost instant G's load spikes on tire and suspension, so funnest way around in the tights is to always try to do them by sharpest shortest turns, as many in a row as needed to get all the way around the full turn. If you can cross lanes to use the whole width even better, but only if ya got the balls or bike that can handle going in fast enough to make up for the shorter time-distance of someone else or your self, taking a tighter curb hugging line around in mostly steady state lean.

One big big bother in my area is the bluff faces and guard rails so close to the road, when I lean Peel far over I have to alter lines wider or bump my head. Same on open road going into blinds leaning left I don't like looking straight down to see double yellow lines while tires are mid lane my side. Wayward anything would be the end. So guess how I usually ride, more timid than the average, I do live on the edge a lot, my far side edge of the road thank you.
 
Id love to get out to colorado! Talk about a ride! That would be awesome! Although going through navada and utah isn't exactly scenic. Oh, look! Rocks! Hey, tumble weeds! Woohoo! Iron butt for sure!

Oh no. Now all the desert rats are gonna hate me. :P
 
Boy you make a good point Chris, in US its takes about 1000 miles of boring road to get to the good spots here and there. Too often the good places are so tiny you only get 30 min delight before back to the ho hum.
 
Naw not Utah, more like deary desert from Texas to Calif, or mid US corn belt, or along Gulf Coast Texas to Fla.

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Ok, sorry I dissed utah. Just general desert fun poking. Hobot's right tho. I say 2hrs from... what I don't say is 2hr of crappy freeways PACKED full l of cellphone talking french fry eating eye lash plucking soccer moms doing 85 10 feet off your butt in their escalade. People drive nuts her :x e. You have to be super agressive to ride a bike here or you get eaten for lunch. You can split lanes here if the traffic is moving less than 35.
Makes for some interesting riding. People from other states tell me they wanna move here, I tell em they're better off where they're at.
 
i quite riding in Houston for similar reasons and sent about 10 yr wondering around trying to find neatest place to ride/live, then see if I could make a living, so far just am, but have a life and some time to enjoy it. I'm working my Trixie Combat back to enjoy each turn while I can.
 
caddy chris said:
People from other states tell me they wanna move here, I tell em they're better off where they're at.

Ahhhh, the ol keepin it all for yourself twist, clever.
 
The reason that I moved here was for the riding.
The four corners area has some of the Best in the country!
... and I live 175 miles away from the closest interstate.
 
Million Dollar highway Oh yea I remember that! Colorado Rally. Great people and even better roads to ride. After seeing southwest Colorado I must say that is some incredible place, The wife even asked "could we retire here?" Well it's on the list. And let's not forget the Utah rally, Hell's backbone also one of the top 10 rides I have been on. And Chris don't forget the Bonneville Salt flats! Where a man can live more in 5 minutes going flat out on his motorcycle than most men live in a lifetime. And Jean I think it did reach 100 last summer maybe twice, but it's rare right on the coast. Ludwigs place and road really do look inviting, That is if the police would allow you to really ride it hard. Most of all the places we rode in the 70's and 80's are now totally swarming with the highway patrol, We had those places to our own at one point now we have every kid thinking he's Valentino Rossi, and on most weekends there a few if not more that seem to go down. And hearing of another guy die is not rare at all. But i would agree there are some of the best roads around here in California, You almost have it all. Including people whom I cannot understand how they got their license? LOL ride safe my friends. :wink:
 
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