Comments on: The Last Great Motorcycle Road

By: Lou Morrell

Lou Morrell — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:57:27 +0000

If you are in the north-west part of Phoenix and need to get to Flagstaff, you can get there quicker going up route 17 but for a great bike ride it would be hard to beat 89A from wickenburg, thru prescott and sedona. The road is in great shape and the views are spectacular…

By: Buzzman

Buzzman — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:34:26 +0000

For the Northeasters:

Rt. 6 across northern Pennsylvania is a beautiful road, and about the only pothole free stretch of scenic road across this cratored state (not really, but almost true). Great scenery, quaint towns for grabbing a bite, lots of elevation changes and look-out points.

The Blue-Ridge Parkway that runs through the Blue-Ridge Mountains in Virginia and N. Carolina is also a very nice ride. At 450+ miles one way this is more a week-end excursion. The NC side has 25 tunnels.

By: lrymal

lrymal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:32:40 +0000

East Texas between Center and Nacogdoches, on highway 7. Midways between the two towns, Highway 7 goes from two lane to four lane, starting at the Atoyac River Bridge when heading north.

This rather nice four lane road twists and turns, goes up and down many rolling hills, and in general, gives your throttle wrist a work-out. Traffic can be generally light, especially on weekends.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:03:51 +0000

I’m in total agreement with GenWaylaid about Skyline above Santa Cruz. It is outrageously fun to ride. Just stay on the main roads as some of those side roads get really squirrelly really quick. Nothing like frost heaves in a descending corner at speed to take the fun out of a ride!

By: coho

coho — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:02 +0000

One of the first things I look for in a nice curly road is never having seen it before. Nothing better than a new (to me) road. I’m not out to shave a tenth off my time – I’d rather ride “on the calendar” than “on the clock”. Unfortunately, that means that road trips get harder and harder to plan as the years go by and the miles rack up. That makes sites like this useful as the “new” curly roads get farther and farther away, making recon more difficult.

If it shows up on a squid-flavored site, though, it loses a few points because Johnny Law reads those, too, and we don’t always see eye-to-eye on the difference between “sporting” velocity and “speeding”. I may be a touring type, but I like to put some new grooves in the sides of my boots from time to time. Besides, I paid for the whole tire, I should use it from edge to edge, right?