BUMP - for fantasy-ride purposes if nothing else.
Check out the pics of the 'K2 on the Swiss Alps. YUMMY.
I hope to find some pics like that from MY local roads, up here in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I've been on very similar roads in & around Waterton National Park, which seem more like a skateboard park than a road. Did 'em on my '82 CB750F back in the year zero, with my honey on the back otherwise I might've gotten a bit carried away. Still, a fantastic trip. NEXT time 'round, I hope to accomplish some stop-&-go cinematic action, zipping up & down the length of the thing with spotters and multiple photographers. Maybe an ambulance. Ha-ha. But yeah, with some help, maybe just a tripod even, I wanna get some proper shots of the twisties - "RED ROCK CANYON ROAD" is the name of the place. Plenty of similar stuff, but harder to photograph in their entirety due to the proliferation of evergreen trees.
One would think that pass in the Alps - what's it called again? Would be the site of some special motorcycling EVENT of some sort. Perhaps, as a part of an old's-cool GIRO D'ITALIA, with those 125cc MV Agusta & Ducati singles, the big leather pillow atop the tank, properly starved & dehydrated jockeys aboard 'em, the motorcycle equivalent of those "Triplets of Belleville" bicyclists, waving their nationalist flags everywhere yet somehow never any soccer hoodlums erupting into violence. Unless, perhaps the era's old's-cool moto journalists left that part out?
Either way, SOMEBODY ought to organize a proper event around that spot. Ideally, like I say, a vintage small-displacement, period-correct recreation type of deal. But hell, I'd even watch it if it were simply a gridlock of BMW touring rigs....
Well - the PICS up above give us another daydream altogether, of a nicely restored chronologically accurate TIME MACHINE of a CB750K, in the sunshine, with clear open roads, sans police interference. What more could you want - a slew of "Bond Girls" and an explosion?
-S.
