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Old 11-18-2009, 05:57 PM   #1
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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   #2
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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   #3
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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   #4
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Legal or not I just could not bring myself to ride without a helmet
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Old 11-20-2009, 09:05 PM   #5
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Legal or not I just could not bring myself to ride without a helmet
Me either.

I'm kinda attached to my head. (I've had it since I was a baby).

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Old 11-21-2009, 10:58 AM   #6
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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.
OMG, that makes my heart race just looking at the picture. Scary, but at the same time I'd love to cruise down it.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:22 AM   #7
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Sweepers are all we have here. I've never ridden in anything you guys would consider tight.

I need about 90mph in the curves out here to have any fun.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:44 AM   #8
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Sweepers are all we have here. I've never ridden in anything you guys would consider tight.

I need about 90mph in the curves out here to have any fun.
Come to a rally with us sometime, you'll get MORE than enough tight turns...we've seen some INSANE cool roads together.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:57 AM   #9
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Come to a rally with us sometime, you'll get MORE than enough tight turns...we've seen some INSANE cool roads together.
well I hope we get some tight stuff this year as I'll be on the DRZ... or I may just say fuck it and find the dirt.

the rally was more about the people than the ride for me...
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