Unk Greg

Thanks for info.

Yup, road is open...at least until the next project.

This afternoon, out and about and see that the barricades announcing 62 closed x-miles ahead are moved to the shoulder and turned away ... So 62 maybe reopened near Danville.....not headed that way today. If you are in Danville and don't see the barricade up...looks like okie dokie.

SR60 north outa Killbuck, another temp closing for culvert replacement. I may have reported it earlier and elsewhere....note that they have changed the signage. Closing JUNE 23 for 5 days. Sign used to say closing 8/5.

I wondered.....saw 514, 520 routes posted somewhere.....sitting here in living room waiting to hear the bikes roaring in the foothills down below my scenic overlook....thus alerting me to your arrival in the area.

Momma's home now and we iz headed out on our own.

All is right with the world.bike will be fixed. I am opting to replace damaged items. Switching out pcs/partz and not repairing.my choice.

Biggest aggravation was the dent in the gas tank...very expensive. It was like half of the total bill. Just one of the Aaaaaarrrrggggh, kinda things in life.

Ride bike in to work and then...left at 1:30AM....took 229 outa Mt. Vernon, until it connects with 36....piped the Fox Den, figured working girls still there...thought about 206, but dark and looking for deer. Because I was watching for deer I stayed on 36 to Warsaw and then 60 north to Killbuckia and USR62....no problems, no traffic and just dark with a bumper crop (get it?) of raccoons zipping to and for in the 36 to 40 mile run. So there is a way around paving and road closed.

This morning had....a barricade moved into the traffic lane near Brinkhaven....and the road closed signs by project moved to right at the hidden Twp Rd....so if you are parking brake drift turning for that dropping Twp Rd., you could clip the barricades with yer right rear quarter panel.

Smiling....

In the meantime....

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2014/03/incredible-video-footage-from-on-board-michael-dunlops-tt-winning-honda-600/

Insurance guy left.....his estimate was more than my local shop!

Within $90.00 of totaling the bike!!!!! Wow! He said salvage value was $900. They get from wrecking yard (my term).

I'm thinking of striking up a friendship with our local insurance agents.....if they are only $900.00 for the cosmetic damage I had from salvage dealer.....I'll be looking to buy a bunch of "totaled" blackbirds for that amount!

Another really late plug for trailering....smiling as I say it.....being in a gas station in Ky and listening to your key outa the bike tumble down thru the body work and into the dark nether regions of....well, the only key and try finding it in the early twilight. Miles and miles from home...even if you had a duplicate key resting in/at the home place.

Welcome back home.

Very Cool!

Thanks all. Just a sick feeling walking out and seeing it laying there. Aforementioned price included them doing the work. Stopped on at shop and said replace everything that got damaged and lemme know how much. Didn't expect that much.

Oops ..... Slid past the Twp Rd 5 this AM....smiled....backed up and down the slope I went. Road ain't holdin up to well....always see the Yoder Toter going the opposite direction each time.

Pulled the red bird outa the garage decided to ride to work, in drive idling and I go back into house to get my gear....upon returning I find ole red down on itz side. Finding a guy to help I pick it up and see scuffed panels where they used to be pristine.

The rest of the story is...ride in and the water jug in my back pack was gone at work...back pack unzipped itself and my water is now roadside trash .... Somewhere....then at work I got to sit in a crowded tornado shelter for 1 and a half hours ....remind me to take a folding chair next time....

Upshot of this? Simple fall over and replacement pcs/parts at $2700 and a few more bucks with change too. Insurance is sending their appraiser out.

Dent in tank....half of cost on pcs is the gas tank. The guy at shop exclaimed....that is the MOST expensive gas tank I have ever priced.

So how iz yer day?

Clicked on edit...to fix mistakes....switched me to a screen that says, "I'm not allowed to do that". Y'all can figure it out anyway right?

Used my unofficial detour very early this AM.....coming from Danville and going east towards Greater Killbuck Metro Area. Traveled USR62, past the road closed signs, past the road closed 1000 ft.....past the road closed 500 ft....as you see the actual road closed barricades, do the pro-rally turn....grab hand brake and turn left...a dropping hairpin turn.....you can't actually see the road that goes down from 62. Remember that in the wee early morning darkness.... : )

This is Twp Rd. 5....dirt, gravel and chunky rocks....narrow too. Travel to stop sign and that is Richland Twp road 13 (not 7 as previously mentioned...gimme a break, I haven't been back in there for an eon or two.) at the stop sign you will see the cut stone tunnel....no need to travel left to get a glimpse of it. Snap yer pic and turn right onto Twp Rd 13....following that narrow gravel and mud....curious now as it is raining like a son-of-a-gun....how that mud will be....anyway, back to directions. Follow Twp 13 out to county road 25 (not 70 as mentioned earlier....although if ya find 70 there is another cut stone tunnel (Baddow Pass)....at stop sign at CR25 turn right and follow it back to USR62. Stop sign there and straight ahead is SR206, but you would be turning left back onto 62 to return to your direction.

If ya ain't into adventure bike, ATV back roads....take 514 north outa Danville to 520 and follow it back to 62 (just remember too the daily closing thru daytime for state working).

Then too, just take SR36 East to SR715 and travel 715 to Walhounding and grab SR206 north backbtonthe aforementioned intersection of USR62, Holmes CR25 (older chip and sealed)....then y'all can turn right onto 62 and resume yer easterly trek.

Haven't messed with the south side of 62 dirt roads lately....Cavillo Station....oooo, there's an idea.....do a run and everyone try and figure out where exactly Cavillo Station is and converge there....you will run out of paved roads....hint, should you choose to try that rally ride...you'd be around 8 miles away from Walhounding, in deep woods.

AND, by this posting...you see I am still here.....we are not the Killbuck couple that crashed on SR93. Brad Yoder and wife, she was dead at scene and he was life-flighted. I can't add anymore than that......gotta go as I heard wife shrieking....it'sa humongous spider on the curtains...can you comr get it?

AJ! I already tole ya all of the above : ) yeah, Keith from Warsaw was one, I forget who the second guy was that windowed his motor....

nice to see ya still lurking on bd., yah, and loved the picture of the new bike ya showed me.

Smiles all around.

Major, major, correction......in my early AM traveling stupor....i had misread the sign. The road is closing on 5/27 (with my addled thought of one month closed...I.e. 27 days)...NOT SO....it will be closed for 5 days. Project would be about 2 or 3 miles east of Holmes County line, from Danville direction.

Again, the only go around looks like 514 (Danville) north to SR520....don't forget the daily closing of 520 for maint. work. Presumed that 520 would be allowed open on weekends. Unless you are on a dirt bike, ATV or adventure bike....then you could drop off and down into the woods on Twp Rd 5, just before the Road Closed barricade on USR62. A Very gravel road that snakes around and you could end up in and around Glenmont (eventually). I think Twp Rd 5 takes you to Twp Rd 7.... Left on twp rd 7 (if it actually is twp. rd. 7) and you are thru a cut stone tunnel passing under the once railroad line and end up back near Brinkhaven and Mohican River. Taking 7 right and you'll wind around thru the backwoods to come out on Co. Rd. 70 (?).... Being the county road opposite the termination of SR206 at USR62. Turning right at intersection of Twp Rd. 7 and onto CR70 will take you to USR62 and the north end of SR206.

AND, i see that SR60 north of Killbuck, below the intersection of SR39, will be closed on 8/5, near Welcome (a turn that poses as a town). This too looks to be a culvert replacement....

Confused yet? Good luck.....

: )

This morning and....signage, USR62 will be closed for about a month. So leaving the area that all the paving scheduled is to be done, and once into Holmes Co. heading east from Danville and well before SR206 the road will be closed. Looked like a culvert replacement. No handy way around it.

That is all....

Got the scoop....daily closing of 520 and open at nite.....the official mantra is clearing right-of-way, as tree canopy contributes to pavement deteroration....dat spelled right?

My take is ........

no tree tunnel to travel under....makes for clear shot by airborne drones.

Opening and closing. I.e. yesterday PM barricades up - road closed 8 miles from USR62. Oming home at 6AM this morning and the barricades were turned sideways and moved to the shoulder.

8 miles from 62 puts you at Glenmont.

Not sure what's doing...last time they closed it for cleaning ditch out and reopened short time later.

Could very well be what is going on...routine maint.

Won't be out and about until later...Iike Friday....