Best place to ride in the U.S.?

Navigator said:

I'm still looking forward to the ride up Mount Whitney, I think. Friend's who have done it thought it was pretty spectacular, to include looking down over the road at the back of a Bald Eagle soaring below. One guy had to get the O2 at the top. My son-in-law ran up the darn thing.

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Skip the Mt Whitney portal road and check out horseshoe meadows road about 4 miles south of the portal. Its 2.5k higher doesn't have the guest traffic and has better views. Better yet do both.

JeRome said:

hight has nothing to do with anything. Its all about prominence. You can find this in in colorado but other lower mountains can look bigger.

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"nothing to do with anything" ???
How about views, scenery, temps, air quality, challenge?
I have always enjoyed riding the lowest roadway elevations in the US (Death Valley) and the highest (Mt. Evans).
For me, "prominence" has nothing to do with my riding choices, e.g. not interested in riding the Empire State Bldg. and it is prominent.

JeRome said:

Don't forget bear notch, then cut to hurricane mountain road up Rt 16 in maine then hammer down up to Errol nh. Or just hammer it to rangely spend the night and head to bar harbor to hammer the Acadia national park loop road at first light in the morning..... I could go on and on. The whole country has hidden gems.

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Never heard of any of those.
Perhaps explain just where they are so we also can find these?

I love the east coAst but a ride from Moab utah to the california coast cutting through death valley, kennedy meadows in the Sierra Nevada's through sequoia down into the imperial valley would be sweet right now.

1olbull said:

Never heard of any of those.
Perhaps explain just where they are so we also can find these?

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its a response to warp9.9 on the kancamagus highway in new hampshire.

1olbull said:

"nothing to do with anything" ???
How about views, scenery, temps, air quality, challenge?
I have always enjoyed riding the lowest roadway elevations in the US (Death Valley) and the highest (Mt. Evans).
For me, "prominence" has nothing to do with my riding choices, e.g. not interested in riding the Empire State Bldg. and it is prominent.

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To each his own.

JeRome said:

its a response to warp9.9 on the kancamagus highway in new hampshire.

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Now I see tis located in the extreme northeast US.

JeRome said:

its a response to warp9.9 on the kancamagus highway in new hampshire.

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Gratitide. Looks like a good day ride.

Navigator said:

Great pic. What were you riding. It is certainly loaded for the long haul. I think you need more instrumentation though.

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Thanks, Mike. That's my 2015 Trophy set up for scavenger hunt rallies. The pic was taken on Leg 1 of the Iron Butt Rally where I covered 10,040 miles in 11 days. Start was in Greenville, SC with Checkpoint 1 and 2 in Kennewick, WA. The farkles are great when they all work. It's a bugger when they don't.

tdragger said:

Thanks, Mike. That's my 2015 Trophy set up for scavenger hunt rallies. The pic was taken on Leg 1 of the Iron Butt Rally where I covered 10,040 miles in 11 days. Start was in Greenville, SC with Checkpoint 1 and 2 in Kennewick, WA. The farkles are great when they all work. It's a bugger when they don't.

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Ah hah! I didn't even consider the Trophy. Duh. A local friend traded in one of his Harleys for a 2015 and loves it. After seeing the pic I was perusing Craigslist for different sport tourers trying to figure out what it was.

I've never been one to use a GPS on a bike. Years ago the Garmin in my wife's car led us to a riverbank in Oregon to catch a ferry that didn't exist.

Most of my friends who tour use them. Oh and I now recall when I bought my DL1000 years ago, the seller in Oklahoma City graciously lent me his Garmin Nuvo to get from my motel west of OK City to Wichita Falls. . I departed at 0 Dark Thirty, thinking it would get me on the freeway to 44 and 281 south. He had it set up for secondary roads so I found myself in cow country, in the dark, with no moon, multiple back road turns in pitch black, having no idea where I was and with the scent of cow dung with every breath I took. I was waiting to crash into a steer in the road at any minute.

It dumped me out on 44 90 minutes later just north of Ft Sill. And then my gear shift fell off. What a morning, courtesy of Garmin, my ignorance of GPS and a loose bolt.

I probably ought to get with the program though.