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i'd like to get a thread going that folks will add to for a long time to come giving some info on great rides you've done. any duration; around the block to around the world. whatever the rest of us might want to try someday.
a couple of mine were:
a few years ago we rode over all 23 mountain passes in colorado that are on paved roads and are over 10,000 feet high. it took about 7 days. not including the two days each way getting there and home. i rode that one on a 1980 FXWG. you can look on any colorado map and make up your own route to duplicate this one. at the time i thought it would be my "trip of a lifetime". it may turn out to be. i'll have to wait 'til i die to know for sure, though.
another good one was when sherry (my wife now, but wasn't then) and i rode my 2000 FLHSTC around lake michigan. we spent 4 days doing this one. i recommend that anyone who wants to do this ride plan to spend at least 6 days. that's 5 days riding and one to go to mackinaw island. we didn't have time to even take the ferry over there at all. there are several other places you could spend several hours that we didn't take the time for 'cause we knew we didn't have the time available. we hugged the coast as closely as the map said we could. except for downtown chicago. sherry is from chicago and we've seen all of chicago we need to see, so we just took the fast way around chicago. i might not remember correctly, but i think this was about 1,100 miles. b-t-w; we watched the fireworks on the 4th of july on that trip at escanaba (sp?). pretty cool as they shot them over the lake and folks sat on a hillside in a park overlooking the lake.
we plan to ride around the other four great lakes eventually. one at a time; not all in one trip.
a short ride that's worth the time is to take missouri highway 79 from louisiana, missouri, to hannibal, missouri. lots of hills and twisties, as well as some great views. about 30 miles. plan for at least an hour, as there are a couple of good scenic overlooks where you need to drink a beverage and admire the view.
i haven't mentioned sturgis or daytona. most of us have either been or plan to go. there has been so much written about these places that we probably couldn't add much to what is already easily available. 'course if you want to let the rest of us in on some secret place you discovered there we'd like to hear about it.
so how 'bout takin' the time to give the rest us a quick run-down of a ride we might like to do someday.
a couple of mine were:
a few years ago we rode over all 23 mountain passes in colorado that are on paved roads and are over 10,000 feet high. it took about 7 days. not including the two days each way getting there and home. i rode that one on a 1980 FXWG. you can look on any colorado map and make up your own route to duplicate this one. at the time i thought it would be my "trip of a lifetime". it may turn out to be. i'll have to wait 'til i die to know for sure, though.
another good one was when sherry (my wife now, but wasn't then) and i rode my 2000 FLHSTC around lake michigan. we spent 4 days doing this one. i recommend that anyone who wants to do this ride plan to spend at least 6 days. that's 5 days riding and one to go to mackinaw island. we didn't have time to even take the ferry over there at all. there are several other places you could spend several hours that we didn't take the time for 'cause we knew we didn't have the time available. we hugged the coast as closely as the map said we could. except for downtown chicago. sherry is from chicago and we've seen all of chicago we need to see, so we just took the fast way around chicago. i might not remember correctly, but i think this was about 1,100 miles. b-t-w; we watched the fireworks on the 4th of july on that trip at escanaba (sp?). pretty cool as they shot them over the lake and folks sat on a hillside in a park overlooking the lake.
we plan to ride around the other four great lakes eventually. one at a time; not all in one trip.
a short ride that's worth the time is to take missouri highway 79 from louisiana, missouri, to hannibal, missouri. lots of hills and twisties, as well as some great views. about 30 miles. plan for at least an hour, as there are a couple of good scenic overlooks where you need to drink a beverage and admire the view.
i haven't mentioned sturgis or daytona. most of us have either been or plan to go. there has been so much written about these places that we probably couldn't add much to what is already easily available. 'course if you want to let the rest of us in on some secret place you discovered there we'd like to hear about it.
so how 'bout takin' the time to give the rest us a quick run-down of a ride we might like to do someday.