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From: Vito on 10 Nov 2009 07:17 "Sean_Q_" <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote |I spent too much time this past summer and fall thinking about | where I'd go riding south of the 49th in winter when I could have | been on some good riding roads near here. .... Good thought! If you live outside sububia one can really enjoy poking along slow back roads, especially on a antique bike. I had an Enfield Bullet for that purpose when in Virginia. Your Ural otta love it.
From: TOG on 10 Nov 2009 07:23 On 10 Nov, 03:00, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > > Thanx for the clue, Don, I hadn't heard of them, but I agree with > the assessments I've read so far. For instance today's featured > destination, DH3 is the Mount Currie to Lillooet Duffey Lake Rd > (Hwy 99). I've been over part of this and its a scenic, total wilderness > route, if rather slow (a lot of it is posted 60 kph). > There seem to be some nice roads there, but a 37mph speed limit would make me die of boredom. How heavily are they policed? Cameras? Good honest upstanding citizens doing their duty by reporting people who overtake them?[1] [1] At least we haven't sunk that low yet, though it seems the Germans have.
From: TOG on 10 Nov 2009 07:45 On 10 Nov, 12:17, "Vito" <v...(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > "Sean_Q_" <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote > |I spent too much time this past summer and fall thinking about > | where I'd go riding south of the 49th in winter when I could have > | been on some good riding roads near here. .... > > Good thought! If you live outside sububia one can really enjoy poking along > slow back roads, especially on a antique bike. I had an Enfield Bullet for > that purpose when in Virginia. Your Ural otta love it. Or a Harley...... I was just idly looking at bike hire rates. Not cheap, are they? This lot http://www.mcscoots.com/the_bikes.html Works out at something like £900 a week, if you assume that you're going to be doing more than a wimpy 125 miles a day. Plus fuel, of course. I reckon airline biz class is cheaper, although that's not really the point. It's years since I've ridden a bike in the Americas. I have some sort of evil plan involving the buying of a decent used Softail Custom and then riding it to the east coast to ship it home. It'd have to be a US spec bike, of course, to avoid having a kph speedo. There's another thing. To what extent to US and Canadian HDs differ in spec?
From: BrianNZ on 10 Nov 2009 15:02
Vito wrote: > "Sean_Q_" <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote > |I spent too much time this past summer and fall thinking about > | where I'd go riding south of the 49th in winter when I could have > | been on some good riding roads near here. .... > > Good thought! If you live outside sububia one can really enjoy poking along > slow back roads, especially on a antique bike. I had an Enfield Bullet for > that purpose when in Virginia. Your Ural otta love it. > > For sure! No matter which way I turn when I leave the driveway, the backroads are less than a minute away....I like to think of them as a tarsealed moto-x track. :) |