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Title: DO TELL
Post by: Mike Duluth on January 23, 2013, 06:51:34 PM

What is your all time favorite road? Please give the State, number or name of the road. Just a little about it, what town it is close to so we might find it on a map.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: DaleB on January 23, 2013, 07:16:57 PM

US12 from Lolo MT to Kooskia ID. Old picture form several trips ago. Usually I'm by myself when I'm there and there's no one to operate the camera. When you get to this sign traveling from Lolo MT you've already been riding for about 30 miles on nice twisty roads.

(http://www.motorcycletouring.us/lolo_big.jpg)

There are a lot more roads that I really like but the Lolo pass road is my favorite.

Dale B

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: v2Neal on January 23, 2013, 09:35:41 PM

S6/S7 around Palomar Mtn.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Mike Duluth on January 24, 2013, 08:49:29 AM

So far the best road I have ridden is HW 32 on the border of TN and NC, just west of I-40. No traffic at all, that's because the last mile of it is gravel on the NC end. I will be looking for a better road this year, but will go back to 32 every chance I get.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Vander on January 24, 2013, 09:48:21 AM

I think this was the road... I loved it.

http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AKarasawakyanpujou-r70.JPG/-/en (http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AKarasawakyanpujou-r70.JPG/-/en)

Kanagawa prefecture road 70 in Japan.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Jvs on January 24, 2013, 02:05:14 PM

33 from Ontario wisconsin through wild cat to Hillsboro Wisconsin was a fantastic road. Real smooth, beautiful scenery, lots of corners. :) pure Zen.

(http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q556/mrjswans/55049744-40DC-468A-852E-8FED10F87072-4781-0000045F54A2872C.jpg)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Greg on January 24, 2013, 06:35:40 PM

Nice pic, JVS.

My favorite is HWY 14 from Omaha, Ar to Mountain View, Ar. For the way I like to ride, it's my favorite. Pure unadulterated, inappropriate, nanny nerve-racking, outlaw fun. Booya!

(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad343/tgyeti/DSCN0944.jpg)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Stinger on January 25, 2013, 12:20:52 PM

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-O8iyGUkcTV8/UQLMPG6nQJI/AAAAAAAAA9w/uCBnyP4qdZA/s604/AR-123South.JPG)

As I recall the first and only road I've turned around immediately three times just to ride it again.

Just South of Mt Judea, AR

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: flyinlow on January 25, 2013, 02:19:51 PM

North Carolina, Wayah Road. Its about 28 miles long, every kind of turn you can imagine, and the whole time (west to east) you don't realize you're climbing until you get to the switchbacks at the end. Just when you think you have the road figured out it changes.

http://goo.gl/maps/yfZMM (http://goo.gl/maps/yfZMM)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: pkpk on January 26, 2013, 01:59:36 PM

Hana Highway, Maui.

A  bit tongue in cheek but seriously Maui has some really fun riding roads.  The caveat is you won't get much speed on narrow roads with hundreds of 90 degree corners and one lane bridges.  I've been on Lolo, Gap, Arkansas roads, etc but the Maui ride remains my all time favorite for the uniqueness of riding through lava fields, through jungles, under waterfalls and literally from sea level to 10,000 foot high volcano.  It was also cool taking breaks at pullouts where you can watch world class surfers taking on the biggest waves.  You can rent bikes on the island but I was fortunate to have found a fellow ST1300 rider who lent me his.

http://www.motorcycleroads.us/regions/hi_maui.html (http://www.motorcycleroads.us/regions/hi_maui.html)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Plus_P on January 26, 2013, 06:52:49 PM

So far...
Missouri 125. Just after the Peel ferry at the AR border. Might have been because it was early in the day? Or third day of the trip? Or just the radius and banking of turns made just for me? Everything was "just right". Closest I've felt to being "one" with the bike, etched in my mind as I seek more of the same.
+Wade

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: carlson_mn on January 27, 2013, 05:46:43 PM

I don't know if this was 125 Wade but this was somewhere around there!

AR Day 3-1 highway 125 MO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCBQfWjRAQ4#ws)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Plus_P on January 28, 2013, 10:11:39 PM

Thanks Matt! mmm...almost Zen..."The" section really imprinted on me was a bit more tree canopy shrouded than this section, at least in my memory of it :)...but it still just put a bigass smile on my face to watch that.
Until we all get back to our favorite roads, or find new ones...
+Wade

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Powershouse on January 29, 2013, 10:37:46 AM

I always smile when I come to those "Crooked and Steep" signs in Arkansas.  Lots of fun stuff down there.  The only place I've ever had vertigo on a motorcycle - between the closed tree canopy and banked turns I had to stop and find the horizon again.

Most recent "best road ever" experience was in November
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=20450166&postcount=39 (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=20450166&postcount=39)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: tk on January 30, 2013, 01:59:55 PM

In Matt's video we start out westbound on Hwy 160 and turn onto northbound hwy 125. The road does get tree canopy a few more miles into it after the video ends.  This is probably my favorite road in MO.

Mike wants to know my favorite all time road. :-\ That is really hard to say!

I'll go with Trail Ridge Road thru Rocky Mountain National Park. Not the twistiest or fastest road but it has incredible scenery and an ambiance that can't be beat.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: boatwhiskers on February 02, 2013, 02:19:41 PM

Hwy 229 in central California probably has been the most technical road I have been on. (The locals call it Rossi's Driveway)
But for the right side of my brain nothing beats hwy 101 Pacific coast.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Chris on February 05, 2013, 05:30:51 PM

seams like this has been done before.

AR. 128 is a blast (but eats bikes) 7 and 16 were also a lot of fun.
ID. 12 (LOLO Pass) is a great road too
CO. 92 and 149 and 141 are my favorite roads out there 550 (million dollar hwy) was not that good of a ride, to much traffic.
WY. 16 and and 14 over the bighorns and 443 was nice, 26/278 had a some awesome views of the East Tetons
MT. 116 might not have been to bad but it was raining and sleeting and 287 has some great views of the west side of the Tetons.
SD. 16 to WY., Custer State Park, Spearfish, 16a, 87
WI. SS is my fav, but really any of the alphabet roads in that area are fun.

writing this I realized that I have put some miles on the in the last few years.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: vince on February 08, 2013, 09:22:02 PM

How about some closer local favorates.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Mike Duluth on February 09, 2013, 04:37:08 PM

OK Vince, my favorite road up here would have to be J Cooke, but that's gone now. So it would have to be the Delta Diner road and forest road 236, kinda on the same ride.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: pkpk on February 09, 2013, 11:01:48 PM

Opus Complex

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: vince on February 10, 2013, 07:44:34 AM

Quote from: pkpk on February 09, 2013, 11:01:48 PM

Opus Complex

I always hear about this place but have never gone there. Isn't there to many cars and cops there.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Greg on February 10, 2013, 08:02:54 AM

It's just northwest of 169 & crosstown in Minnetonka. It's a twisty one-way road system through an office park designed by pot smokers in the early 70's. Me thinks Paul is being facetious. Opus is a hot-spot for new riders who don't know any better. :)

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: pkpk on February 10, 2013, 12:32:45 PM

Haha, yeah...Greg's got me pegged.

I'm not even sure it's still a draw for bikes.  I have ridden through it on occasion when I happen to be in the area and I never see any other bikes.  Back in the 80's, I used to ride through it frequently on my way to Frisbee (puff) Golf (puff) at Glen Lake.  Even then, there was an occasional bike but I never once saw any organized group terrorizing the complex.  I always wondered if it's reputation was just an urban myth.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: vince on February 10, 2013, 02:04:44 PM

I think it is just a myth. I have never seen another bike there when I was there.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: carlson_mn on February 10, 2013, 04:03:54 PM

I been there once for a few laps and it was dead on a saturday.  Had a loud bike at the time so I didn't feel comfortable being there and figured the cops would be called by the nearby neighborhood!  It's a fun loop I had forgotten where it was.

Title: Re: DO TELL
Post by: Powershouse on February 11, 2013, 04:52:23 PM

Used to be bicycle criteriums out there at Opus.  May still be.