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Old 11-18-2009, 01:43 PM   #31
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Fast in the fast stuff, slow in the slow stuff. I have no preference as each has their challenges but i do like 2 things...
1. I enjoy a clear line of vision and
2. I enjoy alot of character to the corners, i.e. Different banking, weird radius, and close left right combinations. Makes me feel more like a pilot than a rider...
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Old 11-18-2009, 01:55 PM   #32
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Shannonville and Cayuga might be tight and technical, but bogie has some turns that are pretty damn fast(turn one is a kink that can be taken knee down), and Mosport is almost all sweepers.

I'm nowhere near the skill level I'd need for Bogie or Mosport. I'm tentatively making plans to hit Calabogie late August next year, but only if I get quite a few days under my belt.
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Old 11-18-2009, 02:24 PM   #33
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Fast in the fast stuff, slow in the slow stuff. I have no preference as each has their challenges but i do like 2 things...
1. I enjoy a clear line of vision and
2. I enjoy alot of character to the corners, i.e. Different banking, weird radius, and close left right combinations. Makes me feel more like a pilot than a rider...
I'm with him... but being from I have no idea what tight technical roads are like if they are not on a track.
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Old 11-18-2009, 02:34 PM   #34
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Tight and quick, I like the constant movement. Places with wide open sweepers (like the skyway) make me nervous. I have an ingrained fear of guardrails and mountain sides...
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Old 11-18-2009, 02:36 PM   #35
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I like both, but prefer tight and technical - just more fun to me. I have a favorite pattern I like to ride that starts with mild sweepers, has a ton of tight turns going through the mountains, and then lets me blast down 400/19 from Dahlonega all the way home, with lots of sweepers.
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Old 11-18-2009, 04:11 PM   #36
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That is because you have no girth.
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Old 11-18-2009, 05:57 PM   #37
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Tight and quick, I like the constant movement. Places with wide open sweepers (like the skyway) make me nervous. I have an ingrained fear of guardrails and mountain sides...
Then you may like the road up Mount Evans. None of those stinking guardrails. Just don't look down the thousand-foot drop offs like the passenger in this photo is doing. Some of those bare spots in the distance are old gold mines above Idaho Springs.
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Old 11-18-2009, 06:00 PM   #38
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I like my roads like I like my women.. tight and curvy.
I was waiting for a smart comment like this.... only took 3 pages or so.

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Now I do agree with this...makes perfect sense. Flying around blind curves with all of the possible obsticles one might face on the street is what keeps me from enjoying that as much as the sweepers but on a track...totally different.
I would have to agree, somewhat.

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... and close left right combinations. Makes me feel more like a pilot than a rider...
I hate close left right, right left combinations. I suck at them.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:23 PM   #39
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Then you may like the road up Mount Evans. None of those stinking guardrails. Just don't look down the thousand-foot drop offs like the passenger in this photo is doing. Some of those bare spots in the distance are old gold mines above Idaho Springs.
I didn't get to ride Mt Evens when I was out there, i needed one more day!!

That looks a lot like the road over Independence Pass though, and the one in Rocky Mountain National Park. Absolutely the most beautiful roads and scenery I've ever ridden through! I want to go back again, and again, and again
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Old 11-20-2009, 06:48 PM   #40
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Legal or not I just could not bring myself to ride without a helmet
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