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Offline super pasty white guy

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Best Motorcycle Roads
« on: July 07, 2008, 12:52:30 PM »
Just saw this on wired.com and thought that it'd be of interest here.  The article is just a come-on for user submitted motorcycle roads displayed on a google-esque map.  Could be a good resource, or a way to have everyone and their dog on your favorite stretch of tarmac  :D.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/07/ride-the-worlds.html

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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 01:07:51 PM »
 The writer, Chuck S., is a friend of mine and we ride together often. In fact I'll see him tomorrow night and get to the bottom of his intentions ;) ;D
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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 02:12:20 PM »
In about 1989 or 90 I just about dumped a 1000RR on 238 at fortville In (It's on the list). The urban sprawl has made that stretch of road a slow commute

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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 04:25:22 PM »
Best roads, well I took my first trip back home on a bike a week ago. I was raised in SE NC and when I took a bike back
after 20 years of not riding there I realized it's one of the best keep secrets on the planet. Sure it's flat country but it has
some sweepers. Most importantly though, it has very few cars on the back roads. And I know them all for about a
100 mile radius and don't need a map.

Now the mountains are nice but country roads in the coastal plains of NC are hard to beat.
I'll be heading down more often and as soon as the summer season is over off to the beach again
on the back roads.

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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2008, 05:36:39 PM »

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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 06:22:34 PM »
here's what I'm talking about, Spanish Moss and all....
the main roads have numbers but very little traffic also,
folks in cars even wave at motorcyclist.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fair+Bluff+NC&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=34.434098,-79.032555&spn=0.396995,0.601501&z=11

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Re: Best Motorcycle Roads
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 08:45:21 PM »
Try this one.

http://www.motorcycleroads.com/


          Pretty cool link there okie! 8) I'd heard that Arkansas had some decent roads (seen some that I thought were pretty good) and this shows some that I knew of and some I didn't.

    http://www.motorcycleroads.com/routes/SouthEast/AR/AR_index.htm
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