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  1. I used to park my cruiser under the roof of my resturant, it was a pizza deliver shop and It was always raining in the afternoon. People would sit on it all the time, at first I would get angry. But so many people would do it - I finally just put a sticky note on it saying "you breaky you buy"! Of course it helped they were mostly fine looking females visiting the gym next door. Then my boss told me to move it cause he wanted to make my store a carry out service, so I had to park it in a space out in the open.

  2. Awesome! Thanks Slammer, just made made my day. We have just been deluged with rain here, a nice vid did the trick to fill the gap of not being able to ride.

    Is that a stand of white birch trees toward the end of the vid?

    Those would be Colorado Aspen. The sound of my Staintune scared off that deer, it was grazing on the grass on the side of the turn. I saw it and was looking for more to come bounding out of the bushes on the other side of the road. I consider this to be the best road in Colorado for its combination of scenic beauty and turns.

  3. Miguel,

    The 19th was a fine day for a ride. I looked at my journal for that day and see I took a day off to explore the Tarryall Rd., Fluorissant, High Park Rd. area, Cripple Creek, Victor, 67, etc. area. Empty roads. Too bad we didn't connect.

    Nice to watch your Golden Gate Canyon vid. Want to mention the next time you scoot up GGC, take a right at Crawford Gulch Rd. Will see it at around 2:55 of your recording. Newly paved for about ten miles and it is sweet/scenic. Goes Past White Ranch Open Space Park. Will have to turn around if you don't want to ride dirt a few miles. It loops back through Golden Gate Canyon State Park to the canyon.

    Yo Steve! It was a pity we never hooked up for any rides this last summer? I am still free on mon-tues, as you can see from my blog I did a lot of out of state riding this summer. I even rode a couple of rides on Saturday, although at a much slower pace - since I worked the night before.

    New pavement up to White ranch eh? I recall it wasnt that bad to begin with I thought about it but it was already 2pm and I did not want to be home later than 5pm? I decided to do some more twities further south. I had CC Parkway all to myself but never got it over 90mph, I kept getting radar bleeps, I forgot they have two radar signs there, I was rubber necking for cops the whole time. I even tore up Bear Creek but took it a bit too hard, I found myself getting awfully close to the shoulder on one of the tighter turns. That road seemed tighter all of a sudden than I remebered it. Then the traffic backed up with 4 turns left to go..

    TIM - the man from Chilly town! So we have this big vfrd ride set to go off some time next April - May called the Texas Mac? What say you, Gary, and Bill join me for a loop into North Carlolina, for the Rally. I am sure it is gonna happen. We do the Ozarks on the way in? The Blue Ridge Parkway on the way out and loop back up north for a grand tour? I always have a blast riding with you guys. Its a ways off yet, perhaps? Bill can show us around West Virginia since he knows those roads!

  4. There is only one Cripple Creek, an old Gold Mining town in the mountains of Colorado - they have found a new life with Casinos and Gambling most of the old buildings have either been converted or rebuilt to Casinos now. Its a Blue Hair dreamland - I avoid, preferring the quieter more austere community of Victor 2 miles to the south east via one twisty fun road.

    To answer the question - yes thats affirmative.

  5. I really liked the way you put event markers on your S&T maps. Anyway we can download those S&T files?

    sure here ya go Streets & Trips File

    The park is called the "grand staircase" because of the Multi colored layers deposited over the millions of years along the "Colorado Platau" It starts at the bottom of the Grand Cayon, contiunues Higher at Zion, then you can even see more of the strata at Bryce Canyon and finally culinating at Escalante Grand Staircase. I am not sure where Capital Reef flows into it but I am sure its lower in elevation than Escalante. Zion has the tallest sandstone cliffs in the world. Those pictures dont really relate to you the hieght too well its easily 2000 feet from the road to the top of some of them. I was literally pointing my camera up 70 degrees.

  6. Man! That is a beautiful area. When are we going to have the "Colorado Rally?"

    Kevin

    Seriously? I doubt I could stich together 12 guys for a "homecoming" - well Colorado is home to me! If it was up to me it would be more like a moving caravan, stay one night in Montrose, the Next in Durango. Perhaps its better to base out of a centeral Location such as Gunnison, or Salida? Destinations like the Million Dollar Highway, Monarch Pass, Black Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park? You basically cant go wrong anywhere in the mountains.

  7. I bought a harbor freight tire changer, aprox $100 it paid for itself after 3 sets of tires. I ride alot so its saved me alot of money over the years. I can change a set of tires in less than an hour by myself and be on the road. Of corse you need an aircompressor, tire irons, and some soapy water, I used antifreeze instead of soapywater.

    http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.p...;showarticle=39

    http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.p...;showarticle=38

    I order online from various sources, swmototire.com most often, never pay more than $250 a set, 2 tires = free shipping too.

  8. Poor Tim on the FJR. Blows one corner the whole trip and Miguel is right there to catch it on vid... :goofy:

    I checked the map again and still can't find the road he was signaling with his right blinker. There was a campground about 20 miles up the road, maybe just giving us advanced notice.. :blink:

    Ole Tim was just looking further down the road than the rest of us and saw the right turn up somwhere near Mexican Hat! LOL One memorable thing Tim said was "What a country we live in" when we were stopped at that overlook at 8am Monday Morning. Yes Indeed what a country!

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    Tim gets Poetic here

    PS BTW anybody heard from Gary yet? How did he fare the rest of his ride?

  9. NEW VIDEOS HERE!!

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    video preview

    :media:Devils Highway video - highway 191 Arizona, 20 min 65 mb mvw format, dmb and Nirvana do the sound.

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    :media:Highway 152 New Mexico - the best road in USA in my opionion a wonderful surprize.

    Reddog calls me up, says his two buds are meeting him in New Mexico for a trip somwhere in the 4 corners area. He asks me if I am game? Of COURSE! I know Gary and Tim from last year, we tooled around Colorado Together for a few days and had some fun. Like Bill said above it was all up in the air as to where we would go exactly - I have been jonzing to do this Devils highway after reading Sebspeeds accounts here from last season, the picture looked so great and its in my corner of the US so why not?

    Reddog says meet him at the World Arena and then we would take off, we both dread slabbing the interstates so we took a detour of the wet mountains and headed into Westcliff and down to Lavita to ride over the Cumbres Pass "Highway of Ledgends" we took off asap.

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    Sangre De Cristo Mountains Bill and I freezing a bit at 8700 feet near Westclif on our round about way to New Mexico

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    Buffalo Farm Near Gardner Colorado

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    Buffalos below Mount Blanca 9600 feet, Blanca is one of the 52 14k' peaks in Colorado

    We met the other two guys in Taos who slabbed it an incredible 800 or so miles from Arkansas, they did some touring in Mora and up into Taos and actually beat us there. Bill and I we were doing so outback riding on hwy 64 up Cimmaron canyon and just had some fun, the road was rather questionable with tar snakes and red gravel. Reddog was riding so fast he had a plumbe of red dust behind him like a road runner cartoon. I was riding a bit uncomfy at that speed but I could plainly see he was sticking - we have the same tires PPowers so I just sucked it up and rolled on the throttle.

    Taos must close at 10pm cause I woke up around midnight from my nap and found the place was virtually abandoned, no ice no drinks just a TV with a burned in red spot on the bottom. There was a group of touring german exhange students in the lobby the next morning - nice looking bunch, but I couldnt understand a lick of what they were saying - they left me a danish and that was about it! So off we went down the road along the Rio Grande River for some fast sweepers. I was still hungry so when we arrived in Santa Fe I stopped for some cash at the ATM and procedded to campain the guys to have breakfast with me at Tia Sophias in Santa Fe. I cant pass on Tia Sophias and thankfully the guys agreed, I am pretty sure they enjoyed the place its a landmark on the Plaza. Then off down hwy 14 a scenic byway that takes you into the back side of Albaquerque and up Sandia Peak - normally its like a race track in the summer but we found red gravel dumped everywhere and melting snow all over the top of the switchbacks.

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    Reddog climbing the last steps to the top of Sandia Peak in New Mexico, Albuquerque lies below

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    Gary enjoys the view

    We rolled up some backroads into the indian country - where it was pretty much just us and a few straglers all they way to Soccoro where we had to slab it down I-25 the wind was brutal through there but it all payed off when we turned off at Cabello at highway 152. It starts out strait for miles then you get into the foothills for some cool sweepers - it seemed it was going to get cold so we stopped in Kingston New Mexico

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    Gearing up for the assault on hwy 152 NM Stopped in Kingston little did we know that this would be one of the best roads in the USA

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    Kingston New Mexico Gateway to sportbike nirvana

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    Nope the workout warmed us up more than the gear

    we soon found that we were on one of the twistiest roads in the USA it just went on and on and on so much so I was getting arm pump, along with Tim (chillidown) so we stopped and I checked my video recorder to see what I had so far - nothing I screwed it up so I restarted it right there and caught the second half, the first half was much tighter though! There were a lot of copper mines in the area we stopped in Silver City for the night, and turned into a few motels till we found the super 8, which had the best price. Sombody tried to cook a pizza for an hour in the microwave and it set off the smoke detectors so we just popped open the wisky and slept it off - dinner at the "red barn" wasnt bad but nothing to rave about it was only a block away - I enjoyed my steak but the other guys were not so impressed with the chicken fried stake. The next morning we were up early into the cold morning a bit stiff and not so loose on the turns, Mule Creek road was great but we were not so great, we stopped at the top for some pictures.

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    Stopped for a picture on Mule Creek Road hwy 78 on the Arizona New Mexico boarder

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    Mule Creek Road has a great pass up the canyon this is a section called the Needles Eye

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    The road hugs the canyon wall

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    Clifton Arizona Breakfast here since it was only 8am there, we left at 8am an hour earlier from New Mexico - Cant remember the name of cafe but its the only one. Good food

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    Pumping up the tires Slime compressor comes in handy

    In Arizona there is a time change so we gained an hour for the rest of the day, had breakfast in Clifton at a nice little diner there in the main street. It was nice and cozy then we started in on the Devils Highway, it took what seemed like an eternity to ride, the road was pretty but the surface was unpredictable, asphalt, loose chipseal in the corners and good chipseals in places, it was tight and unpredictable but exciting to ride. The views were awsome.

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    Sardine Saddle the rest stop veiw to the east

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    Highway Tank the map says so anyways - we called it lonely - no other vehicles for the last 40 minutes.

    After the village of Alpine it gets slabby for the rest of the day, we headed north into the vast Navajo indian nation on our way to Utah, there was a lot of traffic for what seemed like a rual area, it was like that all the way to I-40. I find indian women to be attractive but not on this day, it seemed they must have been hiding. There was a feller on a Triumph 675 riding across country - it was a nice ride for him, we talked about bikes for a good while and wished him good travels as he rode off down to New Mexico, the bike sounded great when he got on the throttle.

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    Rock Point somwhere on the Navajo Indian Nation

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    Beautiful place if you ingnore the power lines, and the fences, and the prefabed houses

    We passed what looked like the same dead dog on the highway about 5 times, when the country started to get very pretty - where it looks like a scene strait out of a John Ford film, I kept expecting the Duke to show up on a hill side riding a calvery horse.

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    Mexican Hat Utah

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    Utah this place looks like John Wayne is gonna come riding over the ridge

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    Moki Dugway unfortuantely its all gravel we could not see the road till we were actually all the way up to it.

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    Valley of the Gods

    Mexican Hat is a great place to relax and unplug the swinging grill of the Mexican Hat Lodge has a lot of flavor to offer! Again we spent the evening drinking and having a good time talking about our travels. Gary peeled off at Mexican Hat to go see his son in Las Vegas and the three of us left headed to Colorado, I did not take pictures but to take note the Maverick Cafe in Norwood is a great place for lunch, and the sherrif deputy is very pretty! If I had to get pulled over I dont think I would mind so much! Dallas Divide is just striking in beauty - having been there a number of times it never seems to dissapoint, as much beauty as we saw this trip I sometimes forget how awstruck I get at my own corner of the US. Monarch pass was also a highlight for me, I couldnt believe how clean the road was on the west side I was just railing it the whole way up!

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    Moki Dugway from afar can you see the road?

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    Riding in the Valley Of The Gods

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    Riding in the Valley Of The Gods

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    More Valley of the Gods

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    Hwy 163

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    Lime Creek to the left

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    Comb Wash

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    Bluff Utah

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    Calf Canyon Utah

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    Calf Canyon

    map.png Streets and Trips file of 4 corners route

  10. Wow, what a great video. Thanks for the inspiration...still snowing in Montana, I have a while before I can ride.

    I really liked my trip to Montana, its a wonderful state, and the folks were friendly but not nosey. I cant describe the awe I felt when I visited Glacier National Park, the open range of the Blackfoot Indian Nation, watching the sun rise over the double mounain range south of Kalispell was impressive, that windy mountain road wedged between the two sawtooth mountain ranges was a wonderful site to behold with a cool mountain lake every few miles in between. Seems Montana has it all for the outdoorsman.

  11. Slammer. How did you get that close to that bike? it is a legend here.

    windwalker

    I went to the Vintage races at Sandia Motorsports park and stood next to it in the pit area, I believe its number 10. It was right there in the pits, if you had a ticket you could see it, even touch it if you wanted too. I did not touch it though. There was a caretaker showing it off just out of the frame.

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