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Mj 88

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  1. Thanks guys! We had perfect weather and over 30 bikes in are group this year. All the cool locals showed up to make some passes with us. Moody, sue, leatherwood and wheeler all good people. Wheeler saved my ass again, I needed a cluch cable and he found one that would work.

  2. Ahhh bummer. I did seem to have a lot of trouble plotting out a route of the real tight squiggleys on the maps in that area, but I do find often that the turns can be much tighter than they appear on the maps.

    We still may try for a route up that way, but other than the tightest section of 60 (below 520), 520 btwn 514 & 62, 715 (still bad surface?), and a few others, it looks like I'd have to take 541 east of choshocton way over towards Cambridge until it turns into OH-658 Hopewelll Rd - which is a much longer stretch of decent looking frequent twisties, & then before Cambridge, head west on OH-209 Bloomfield Rd for more twisties.

    Then before catching OH-83 off 209, jog west on Stoney Point Rd to catch a short set of twisties on 83 above where we would've intersected 83 on 209.

    Then we could head south to 313(?) and then west to catch the very twisty part of 669 by the river,and then 555 south to 78 to 685,& maybe try to bypass the eastern section of 685 and try out a more twisty chip sealed Oregon Ridge Rd to intercept back at 685 at the really good part.

    I might try that route in reverse since I know hocking/685/78/555/669 are great, and we could try out 83/209/658/541 and see if we want to continue or bail out on the quickest decent route home after 5 hours of riding

    My favorite part of 83 is the 4/5 turns north of 209. 209 is fun and 658 was pretty clean last time I was on it, 3 or 4 weeks ago. If you're in the Cambridge area looking to kill some time, hit up High Hill Rd it's got some good turns and you'll pass right by my house.

  3. We had great weather and riding last weekend. We road 350 miles Saturday, some of my favorites were the road up to snowshoe, 66, 250, 33 and 219 had some good parts. All of them had good pavement. We took 15 in the truck on the way in to snowshoe, I wish we could have road it on the bikes but we ran out of time. We also missed the best part of 39, we took it west and then up 150.

    Day 2, we got 170 miles in before we called it quits. The best part of 60/61 we road 4 times and then we started to get rained on. All great roads, can't wait to go back next year.

  4. Ok. So first off big thanks to everyone sharing all the information in this thread and others. I've been reading up on all that I can and have come up with nearly 5 pages of notes which I will be assembling into routes soon. Looks like myself and a friend will be spending 3 days in West Virginia oct 3-5th. It's going to be a good time. Riding looks like it will mainly be focused on the hawks nest/new river gorge area and some portions south of there. Then out east to the big mountain passes and passing into virginia multiple times. Any good suggestions on places to stay? It's going to be a little chilly for camping :(

    The Inn at Snowshoe!

    Ride report later.

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