F4MOU$
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alllllllrighty then....
well show is over and I lost
oh well.. THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE SUPPORT...it was a blast and having everyone any their mothers... go.. wow look at those tires kinda made my day...
I found out a few things about the show towards the end...
1. the show was split into pro builders and amatuer builders.
2. pro builders had to pay to be there..
3. amatuer builders was supposed to be peeps like you and me...
4.. and most importantly to me... i found out that EVERYONE OF THE AMATUER BUILDERS owned or worked for a motorcycle shop of some sort EXCEPT for me lol... from parts shops, custom shops to painters.. they all had a business that could have their parts/work used as a expense.... so were it took me 4 years to get my bike to were it is... they did most of theirs in a few weeks.. heck the guy next to me did it in 7 days..
that was some what frustrating oh well
for the knowledge here is the bike that beat me out for best amatuer r6
Of course, stretched and lowered.
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nice bike man!
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I'm probably going down to Wooser to meet up with Dave (El Kabong) to ride this Saturday if anyone is down?
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You'll be best off talking to Dave, he knows what were doing, I'm just following for the route. lol, he'll chime in I'm sure
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That's great Drew! Yes, the forecast for Saturday looks great.
Ok, here's the details. The address of the Green Leaf restaurant is 2905 Cleveland Ave. in Wooster. I'll be there Saturday morning sometime between 8 and 8:30am. Kickstands up by 9:15am. There is a gas station right across the street from the restaurant. It would be a good idea to fill up when you arrive, so we can leave on time. I'll send you a pm with my cell number. Please send me yours as well, so we can get hold of one another in case something comes up.
I look forward to meeting and riding with you on Saturday. I'm sure we'll have a good time.
As Drew has indicated, anyone else here is welcome to join us. Please post here if you plan on attending, so we'll know to expect you.
Sounds good, that is about exactly an hour from my house, and 44 miles. I'll plan to be there around 8:30-8:45. I'll be on the bike in my sig and I will have a black leather jacket and black and silver helmet.
How many miles are you planning on doing? It doesn't matter to me, the most I've ridden in 1 day is about 150 miles but willing to do more if thats what you have planned.
I can run about 130-140 miles per tank too fyi, there will be gas stops along the way if need be?
I have access to 2 GoPro's, you think I should bring them?
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El Kabong, I would definitely be interested in a ride this weekend. Sorry the only access to a computer I have is at work, during slow times I can roam the forums.
I just checked the weather, looks like it will be beautiful on Saturday, and I'd be down to check out some riding with you! I appreciate it. Anyone is welcome to join, doesn't bother me.
Do you have an address as to where we would meet up so I can google map/map quest it?
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I am within a couple minutes of 77, I'd be down to ride sometime to see some new area's!
This past Thursday I was off work and jumped on the bike, turned on my 'Map My Ride' app on my phone (AWESOME app, it uses the GPS on the phone and follows every where I go and tracks it on a map.
I started out at a friends house and went by myself on a ride. Took 82 to the Metroparks in Brecksville, then from there road the Metro Parks all the way to Rocky River/Lakewood where it seemed to end up by the Bars in Lakewood (by like Harry Buffalo and so on) and then jumped on 90 took that into down town, road around the Flats a little bit, up to Edgewater, then jumped back on I-77 and took that up to Rockside, then headed down to Canal and took that back to the Metroparks area, and hit Helltown out to Old State 8 then 303 down to Hinkley area and around there then back home.
122.5 miles and about 4.25 hours.
This app is so accurate that it even has me walking from the parking lot to the water fall and back step for step at Bonnie Park if you could see the zoomed in portion of it on my phone.
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Thanks again Jeff! Appreciate it!
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Yeah I hear what you are saying. Alot of my riding comes from the East of Brecksville road area.
I will have to look into those routes as well, thankyou!
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I actually have those maps bookmarked from when I was a new rider and trying to figure out where I wanted to go. I've saved them for instances such as these, just easier to show a map then type it all out
I think my week night busy spell will be slowing soon so usually I can get out about 5:30 and ride til dark so if you ever need some suggestions on stuff you may not have found let me know. I've been super lame with putting on miles this year so trying to make up for that
Sounds good, will do man! Thanks again! I am going to try and figure out how to get those routes programmed into my phone or gps and then go from there to mount it to my bike maybe just by like velcro or a GoPro mount and try to hit them sometime. Maybe if our schedules work sooner or later we'll hit the routes sometime.
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OH-44 from East Canton through Atwood and either back up or over to Carrolton on OH-39 is a nice ride that I do after work some evenings. From further North, it's probably a ~3 hour loop, but a nice ride.
As others have said, the truly good roads don't start until you get South of I-70. Down around Woodsfield/Marietta, just about any numbered State road is great fun, but it's a bit of a haul to get there. As you get across the river and into West Virginia, the roads go from good to amazing. We really need to get an OR overnight trip down that way...
OH-646 is one of the better roads that isn't that far South, but it's probably still a 250+ mile loop to get down there from where you are.
As Bad mentioned, the Valley has a couple of gems, but there are too many deer/cops/bicyclists/etc to want to do any riding even approaching spirited.
yeah I am quite familiar with the Marietta area because I used to hunt down in those areas a few years back, but if I remember correctly thats about a 2-2.5 hour haul from me
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A cruise or a little over the speed limit rides are fine but anything more than that and you either have to worry about cops and park rangers or sketchy ass pavement
I suck at remembering road names, I just kind of know where so its a tad hard but some of these maps include some better options but you have to pick and choose, you'll rarely get miles and miles of anything good...more like short bursts ok okayness
I do the canal rd route all the time, I work right off of Pleasant Valley and 21 so really familiar with this area. I usually take Canal to Brecksville reservation side road (when you come off 82, make a right at the first street when you go into the park) and take that out to 21 then down to CVNP and through "Hell Town" or Bostom Mills Rd and out to 303 and turn around and do it backwards.
The other 3 routes you posted look actually pretty damn good I'd say. I will have to check that out, I appreciate you taking the time to map them out like that!
I am aware of the police and rangers you talking about, I usually ride within 10mph of the speed limit give or take when I am just out crusing enjoying the ride.
Honestly, the best thing I started doing when hitting the Valley was just turning at every road I've never been on and get lost and eventually find my way outI also have some decent routes for around the Canton area and just south of Canton
I try to do that once in a while too when I know I got a while to ride. I started out in west Strongsville one time and 2 hours later and a 100 miles ended up in southern Richfield. That was a good time, but lot's of straights not many twisty roads at all.
Or took 82 all the way out west and ended up in Elyria and took some road that led along the lake back to Cleveland and jumped on 2 (I think) over by Avon Lake which was a nice ride minus some little highschool kids throwing a cup of pop out of their window at my buddy and I
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hate to say the truth but there is nothing north,
Come down and ride more towards the south, at least below canton area where there are decent roads to ride. Every weekend we try to ride, At least some NEO group rides happen and its all an average 300+ mile for any fun at all. If you can spend close to 1 hour slabbing then u get hours of enjoyment in some of the nicest roads ohio has to offer.
I was kind of figuring that. Where are some of these nicest roads Ohio has? Road name? City? by chance.
what kinda riding we talking about here? I have plenty of roads that are fun for what they are in the area but the problem lies in the shitty condition of the pavementJust going out for a cruise type, maybe more of a quicker paced ride. What roads are you talking about? Your city is literally starts halfway through my yard.
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The lack of decent roads in close proximity to the Cleveland suburbs is part of the reason a fair number of us to do track days and/or races at Nelson Ledges.
Show up some time and do the lunch time parade lap.
You may have to pay a gate fee, so have some cash on you, but the lunch time ride is otherwise free, and the only gear requirement is a helmet (maybe long pants as well). Just realize that whether they say so or not, the parade lap leaders will absolutely go a lot slower based on less sport-oriented bikes OR lack of gear. I wouldn't say that they intentionally up the pace for sport bikes or those with full gear, but they also won't be as hesitant to go 60% pace instead of holding back to 40%...
If you like Nelson, it's a nice little speed fix every couple months. Yes, it's $150 for a full day or $75 for Friday night practice, and yes, it's the same 13 turns every lap, but if you're getting bored of it or think you have it mastered after one day, you're doing something wrong!
But Nelson is the twistiest, fastest, and (relatively speaking) safest stretch of "road" in NEO for motorcycles.
I have been checking Nelson's out, I was just there at the lake swimming last week and doing the cliff jump. I've been on the motoseries.com site checking it out and learning more on Nelson's track to go sometime hopefully in August.
Check out google maps & switch on the terrain feature. Hilly areas have twisty roads. Flat areas not so much. That's why most group rides originating in NEO are 300+ miles. One local road with a few curves is West River Road, running north from Valley City.Great idea, I will check that out. I will have to keep my eye out for those rides and come on this forum more often.
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cvnp is fun, and I think one of the ravenna guys was telling me if you get down to RT 9, its supposed to be awesome...
I will have to check both places out on Google Maps to see how far they are from me, thankyou as well!
Some fun roads begin around Millersburg. Takes us a about 1.5 hours to get there give or take (on 83). We can usually spend a couple hours in that area and try to do a loop to get us going back north. If we go that way, we usually need about 5 hours for a total trip.Mary
Sounds good, maybe I can get a group of my friends to head out there with me.
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Welcome to the cornfields. The riding this way is pretty poor if you are looking for twisties. If we don't have a lot of time, my husband and I will do some riding around the Bath/Fairlawn area. I don't know the names of the roads but you'll see them on the map. If you have a little more time, there are fun roads in the Coshocton area and also east of 77 kind of around New Philadelphia.
Most of the good stuff in Ohio is south of I-70.
Mary
Thankyou! Appreciate it. I am off work tomorrow and am trying to find something new to ride. I'll google map those areas and check it out.
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I mean, I don't want to go through a full tank of gas to get some where that only has 5 miles of good riding. You know what I mean? In the general northern area. I'd say within an hour of Cleveland, and depending on how good it actually is, maybe a little farther?
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I tried searching but couldn't come up with anything good that I wanted to see. So if there is something out there covering this area, please link it up to this thread for me as I couldn't find anything.
Mainly Northern Ohio, South of Cleveland area.
Where are some good places to ride?
There are a few places I'll hit in Brecksville Reservation area, Helltown by Boston Mills (roads are sh!t) and Hinkley Medina area between say the North Royalton Border and Rte. 18 in Medina and from 42 to 77.
The group I ride with mainly hit 71 and take that North to Cleveland and ride around the city but you can only do that so many times until that gets old too.
But where the hell are some good places to ride. I am starting to get bored with what I have been on and am looking for better area's to ride in the South of Cleveland area, if there are even any, twisty sections, if I wanted to go fast in a straight line I'd hit Norwalk.
Any feedback would be great. Maybe a general location or something so I can check it out on Google Maps and figure out how to get there.
Drew
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good luck man!
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Hey man, I was talkin to you on R1-Forum about going riding sometime!
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found on fb and liked it! This drives me nuts
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welcome, nice bike
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Oh how I would love to get my hands on this, unfortunatly I have credit card debt that needs to be paid off before I can buy anything.
Smoking while riding
in Dumpster
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I'm a smoker, never have I ever done it while riding. Pull over, take a break from riding, enjoy the smoke and go along your way.
My buddy bought one of those HJC (I think) helments where the front face flips up, so he can smoke while riding. With these new fire safe cigarettes, they go out just sitting there, let alone going 70mph hour down the highway.