The Road .... Thread

[Vbreeze]

The Road .... Thread (because it's winter and it's raining & I'm going nuts at home)
Here please feel invited to post your favorite road .... that you've ridden or will or plan or want to. Go!
(#1 Italian Flag, Ducati theme) Foothills of Mt. Diablo San Francisco Bay area


848 + "Seven Sisters" hills above Stinson Beach, Ca. off shoot of Hwy 1


Col du Galibier, Tour de France route. Highly recommended.

Mt Diablo, California, on the way back from the Sierras, quite the hill climb

 

[Vbreeze]

Gran Paradiso, Nat. Park, Mt. Viso Italy. By bicycle. NEED to go back & do by Ducati.



Mt. Diablo, California


Somewhere backroad Tuscany / Emilia–Romagna, Italy boarder on the way to Mugello. Only by car. NEED to go back and do by Ducati.
It was like this for 100 miles. Ridiculous.



848 ~2 min. north of Stinson Beach, California. The gods gave us Hiwy 1 PCH just after they gave us fire. One of the most perfect pieces of engineered tarmac the public is allowed on stretching from the top of California to Santa Barbara. I must have ridden this piece 200 times.

 

[thomasmryan]

nice.

 

[MaverickiB]

There was a beautiful road called Thorndyke in northwestern WA. Twisty with a few long straights, well paved, accurate signage, no intersections. About a 5-7 mile stint you could go back and forth on. Never got many pictures but have at least one video. Every corner was a blind corner so it took a little bit of courage to ride it hard, haha.

 

[Gweedojg]

Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

[Vbreeze]

Pantol Road, near Fort Cronkhite, Marin Headlands home of the Nike Missle Battalion.
First nuke missile sites in the US. (no longer in commission; 1953 Nike Missile 0-60 in .001sec., full thrust @ .01sec. 2000 miles per hour 3.4 sec) were actual ground to air, designed to take out feared 'clouds of jet fighters.'



La Lange, Piemonte, Italy Wine country! Endless hills and vineyards. Roads can go from perfect tarmac to goat trails in a very short distance.
Tractors entering the road is not unheard of, so take the wine home to drink. That's not what the Italians do, but that's what I do. hahaha

Névache, France getting up into the Alps. What can I say, the French know how to design and interesting road and they put them in curious places.
Usually they're in really good condition even in the most ridiculous places. Sometimes the road will skim by the houses within an inch or two.
lot's of waterfalls, sheep and about a million kinds of flowers. The weather can go from sun to black clouds in about :45mins.


The esses going up Mt Viso, Grand Paradiso, Italy. At the bottom it was 78F, at the top, 10,000' later it was 55F


They love their hairpins in this area.
Leaving Bardonecchia, Italy for the French boarder up on top of this ridge. Bardonecchia, the sportiest town in the west. Lot's of sport and Olympic training camps there.


Over the top on the French side, heading into Briançon France. Definitely one of my favorite roads. 40 miles of chicane strings into hairpin to esses to hairpins before the giant sweepers at the bottom in the valleys. More sports bikes pass here than you can shake a stick at. No driveways, cross traffic or controls. Viva la France!

 

[Vbreeze]

Confessions from Sonoma California,
where I balled up a perfect Ducati Monster after a short flight just after this hill. I broke my neck, almost died. I started riding again very delicately 6 months later after the generous donation of a 900S Super Sport from a friend.
This road looks like it goes straight up that hill and bends to the left way off in the distance. Oh no, it does not.
There is a sharp blind right after that second telephone pole, then a left after which it lines up again for this optical illusion.
I discovered 13 -15 motorcyclists go down on this very spot annually. There was no warning sign here and the politics to get one put in would be stupid and months and years and futile. So some friends bought this sign and planted it to US hi way SPEC. Hopefully we've saved some lives and some bikes.
Epically good riding in this area, 10 mins in from the Pacific coast, 20min south of the Sonoma vineyards.

 

[V4Missile]

As you say, it looks like it goes straight ahead, then kinks left. Good spot for a crossed up wheelie, even! Scary .... fella. I hope your recovery going OK. Good job with the road sign, another on the telegraph pole would be good as a second warning!

 

[Twisted10]

My yearly trip to NC/TN

 

[Vbreeze]

Thanks man. That was in many years ago, so I'm back to 99.9%. Lot's of lessons on that one. I've been riding since I was 5 so I thought I knew it all and chased a couple of guys up a road I'd never been on before. After I actually started studying, reading books, finding mentors, track days, practicing, yoga etc. I'm definitely a totally different rider now. I don't recommend breaking your neck. ;P

As you say, it looks like it goes straight ahead, then kinks left. Good spot for a crossed up wheelie, even! Scary .... fella. I hope your recovery going OK. Good job with the road sign, another on the telegraph pole would be good as a second warning!

 

[Vbreeze]

Ah the "Snake!" More pics! I've never been, heard about it 500 times. Why are there so many crashes on it? Is it all Squids and Hardly 'Ablesons, or is it that treacherous and surprising?

My yearly trip to NC/TN

 

[Twisted10]

Ah the "Snake!" More pics! I've never been, heard about it 500 times. Why are there so many crashes on it? Is it all Squids and Hardly 'Ablesons, or is it that treacherous and surprising?

Unlike the dragon its not littered with traffic and cops. You can pretty much go full send... theres no room for error much like the dragon, its tight and a handful on a superbike. Those roads are much more suited for a hyper or motard style bike. Im not a fan of really tight stuff on my duc, just plain wears you out.

i dont take a lot of pics. :/

 

[Duluthian]

the Cherohala Skyway in North Carolina

 

[Duluthian]

The Blue Ridge Parkway .. I try to do it end to end each year ..439 miles of scenic majesty

 

[Duluthian]

Wayah Road , NC ... especially in Autumn

 

[Duluthian]

For a complete listing by state : Motorcycle Roads

 

[Vbreeze]

Nice site!

For a complete listing by state : Motorcycle Roads

 

[Vbreeze]

crap video still in a hard lean but one of the best roads anywhere. "Skaggs" 2 hours north of San Francisco in the middle of nowhere. Built by the US Army Corps of Engineers (who know their ..... I tell you) for very heavy equipment to build a dam. All curves bi-linear for around 30 miles of esses. One of the only places I've ever seen that. After the dam on the west end is a goat trail dirt road so there's only traffic on the east end. Omg you can hammer that place, so so fun.

 

[Vbreeze]

Mont Blanc, France. It's like this.
October ride, last day before the snow. Got so lucky.
Roll into the village of Chamonix for spritz O'Clock - everyone there is an extreme sports nut. It's like, home. <3



Getting past the minivans... in some spots the road gets just a foot or two more or less wide than a proper lane with a tree lined cliff on one side.
Keeps it interesting.

 

[panibadboy]

Some random whereabouts here