Any good roads near me?

[NDspd]

So I live just north of Dayton and I am trying to find some good roads or twisties to practice on. Do any of you know of some good routes to take around here that I can play on? I don't mind traveling a bit to get to them.

 

Thanks,

 

JB

[Gixxus Christ!]

Go east and get on pretty much any number road with a black and white sign.

[jschaf]

You are pretty much on the grid system down there as I am up here. I grew up just SE of Dayton. A couple roads with some turns that I remember are Lower Bellbrook Rd. & Upper Bellbrook Rd. between Bellbrook & Xenia. Kentucky really isn't that far & the roads down there are a lot better.

[Bubba]

NDspd:  I understand Fairborn>KY>Fairborn is a pretty good roll for a day ride, but I'd be happy to show you some of the great twisties in NKY right across the river if you're interested in riding down here for a few hours.  There's miles of great rural roads with light to non-existent traffic within an hour of Cincinnati.

 

I'm retired (or as my wife refers to me...useless as teats on a boar hog) so anytime weekday or weekend works.  Either PM me here on Ohio Riders or shoot me an email at icantdrive55atfusedotnet.  There's some good roads that are interesting in SE Indiana that are prolly a bit closer to you.  Check 'em out on Googlemap.

[Pokey]

You have my condolences.......either head south to Kentucky, or head East SE in Ohio.

[drc32-0]

Get yourself a Delorme Atlas and go check out all the squiggley lines.Some will be gravel,but you'll also find some gems that few riders know about.

[oldschoolsdime92]

So I live just north of Dayton and I am trying to find some good roads or twisties to practice on. Do any of you know of some good routes to take around here that I can play on? I don't mind traveling a bit to get to them.

Thanks,

JB

I'm north of dayton as well. There are a few OK roads, but there's 10-15 miles between the next road. Nothing consistent and nothing great by any means. I have a 100 mile loop I do on occasion and if you took the connector roads out, you might have 10 miles of road.

[NDspd]

You guys are hilarious, bummer there's nothing close. Bubba, I may have to hit you up in the future. I'm sure there are good roads down south near the river.

[rollnhot]

Ceasars Creek / Oregonia area has some good roads.Hit me up I could show you around one evening.

[Bubba]

Bubba, I may have to hit you up in the future. I'm sure there are good roads down south near the river.

 

Absolutely!  It looks like there's gonna be some seriously good riding weather coming up this week.  Lemeno.

[NDspd]

Ceasars Creek / Oregonia area has some good roads.Hit me up I could show you around one evening.

Cool bro, thanks for the offer.

[NDspd]

Absolutely!  It looks like there's gonna be some seriously good riding weather coming up this week.  Lemeno.

Yeah I saw that, pretty cool. If I do go out for a ride I may have to take it easy, my front forks need some serious TLC.

[Chuck78]

When I was living in a hotel 4 days a week while doing contracted boiler install work in Middletown, OH just south of Dayton, I put together a very nice loop that basically started & ended in the town just north of Middletown. I could map some time for you. Mostly flat & "grid system" around there, but there are a lot of river (&creek) valleys hiding where you will find some twisties that can be quite nice.

 

Just go to google maps & select from the Map (non-satellite view) the "Terrain" layer & then seek out all of the hilly looking areas and zoom in looking for curvey squiggly lines on the maps...

 

If you cant figure it out there, revert back to the far superior "classic google maps " - on desktop/laptop, go to google maps & in the bottom right corner click on one of the tiny icons for menu options & select "revert back to classic maps." When it asks you why/feedback, tell it that classic maps is far better for custom route planning, & functions better.

 

Brown's Run & Elk Creek Rd were 2 of the roads in the loop, & I think they parallel each other at one point & you could take one or the other. Then 25 minutes later I looped it into a totally different & unconnected Elk Creek Rd that was quite twisty. That one was further south.   Closer to Hamilton & Cincy, I didn't have any luck finding roads closer to that as far as twisties. I linked up to a dozen or more 12-20mph ultra tight turns in that route, often near houses though, but lots more 25-45mph fun turns. No mecca of any dort like southeast Ohio, but it was a good ride every time none the less.

Edited April 29, 2015 by Chuck78

[Chuck78]

Coming from the hotel in Franklin/Middletown, I'd hit a few really good turns on either Manchester Rd to Franklin, OH or go further north to West Lower Springboro Rd. 

 

The main route after that was in the areas NW of Middletown & W/S of Germantown. 123 out of franklin/carlslile to Sugar St to Mudlick Rd to OXFORD RD. Then left on either Brown's Run Rd (turns into Elk Creek Rd), or stay on oxford to puddenbag rd which turns into west Alexandria rd (look for great hill climb up Strebee Rd, then turn around & continue on route). If Puddenbag, hang a right on Elk Creek Rd. 

L on 122 Middletown-Eaton Rd

 

From there do another mini loop of tighter & some chip seal roads:

L on Michael Rd L on Trenton-Franklin Rd L on BROWN'S RUN RD(totally different than other nearby Brown's Run Rd, & Cloister Cliffs Dr & Myers Rd here have potential, I think I rode 1 once with big smiles up wooded hill climb)

After that nice run, L on Astoria/Hetzler Rd, R on Hinkle Rd (twisty chipseal) - turns into Rocky Rd - which dumps you into Friend Rd where you can catch the NW Browns Run Rd again, or make a R on Friend Rd

 

If you made the Right on Friend Rd,  you can hang a L on Astoria Rd for a ctle of great curves where it merges back into Mudlick Rd near beginning of loop, or you can take Friend Rd further down to to the Germantown-Middletown Pike - where on Friend you encounter a few hard sharp low speed tight 90 degree knee dragger turns & then some gentle scenic sweepers on the Pike northbound.

 

Glancing at the terrain maps, this south-of-Germantown area seems to me to be the best riding near Dayton. If you are much north of Dayton to where that is an hour ride to get to Germantown, consider heading to the Scioto Trail State Forest area on backroads from Xenia for a great short loop of twisties in the steep tight hills there, then check out Tar Hollow State Forest's main paved roads,  then head over to Hocking on 56 & loop 664N from South Bloomingville all the way through Hocking & across US33  to Zwickle Rd, L on Zwickle, R on Logan Hornsmill Rd to Sugar Grove Rd westbound to 33E (southeast) to 374S (makes turns, follow signs) all the way back to 56, R on 56 for the icing on the cake for the last 3 miles of this awesome loop.    

 

That route is bad on warm weather weekends due to the traffic of all the traffic from sightseeing tourists going to check out the cliffs & waterfalls of the hocking area. Best kept to early mornings (watch for deer more carefully@ dawn&dusk), or weekdays.

 

If you want a nice cruise to the hills more directly, head out on I-70 east or back roads to OH-56, where it gets great at the afformentioned South Bloomingville from 664 to 374&beyond. 

 

 

Looking at the map, I nixed 56 to the Lake Hope/Zaleski State Forest area, as Northern KY is a bit closer for you, and it is jam packed from Cincy area & east/southeast full of tight hills & lots of GREAT relatively unknown back roads. 

 

The Germantown stuff is definitely looking like the best stuff in that area anywhere near you though.  Good luck, be safe. 

 

[omni.gipson]

If you find something let me know to please I just moved out here and I'm trying to find a nice place to ride and unwind for a bit.

[claine650]

If you find something let me know to please I just moved out here and I'm trying to find a nice place to ride and unwind for a bit.

You're not too far from Northern Kentucky, doing a half day ride over there tomorrow, free to join. http://www.ohioriders.net/index.php?/topic/107340-NKY-Ride--Friday,-5/1,-@-9-AM,-200-Miles-of-Twisty-Goodness!

There's not much of anything around dayton, but if you venture an hour or so out in a few directions you'll find some very good roads. good luck and have a good first season in ohio.

Edited April 30, 2015 by claine650

[omni.gipson]

You're not too far from Northern Kentucky, doing a half day ride over there tomorrow, free to join. http://www.ohioriders.net/index.php?/topic/107340-NKY-Ride--Friday,-5/1,-@-9-AM,-200-Miles-of-Twisty-Goodness!

There's not much of anything around dayton, but if you venture an hour or so out in a few directions you'll find some very good roads. good luck and have a good first season in ohio.

I wish I could but I have training on base at 10 tomorrow I'm usually only good for weekend rides[emoji24] don't forget me though if your up here on a weekend.

[Chuck78]

Google maps keeps getting less and less use able & more & more dumbed down (used to be really awesome for custom route planning), but here's my quick sketch of the best roads I was able to find near the south-of-Dayton area:

http://goo.gl/maps/DCQYX

[omni.gipson]

That does look nice I'm going to share fit hat with some of the guys at work

[Chuck78]

Try this route instead,

 

https://goo.gl/maps/O6HrK

 

same thing but skips an ok section of Mudlick Rd that you can hit on your way out, in favor of right outta the gate hitting  the tight low speed 90+ degree turns on Friend Rd and then some big long nice turns on Astoria Rd, then it dumps you into Oxford Rd which has some GREAT turns nearing the top of a good little hill climb, some of which are right in front of houses (be respectful of homeowners & watch out for cars pulling out of driveways)

Then you go through farm fields for a few minutes to southbound mini roller coasters on the NW Brown's Run Rd (or Puddenbag Rd). Then Browns Run turns into Elk Creek Rd, you hang a left on 122 for a short jaunt to Michael Rd which has just enough curves & elevation changes to keep it interesting.  Then after a quick connector on Trenton-Franklin Rd, you hang a left on a totally different road also named Brown's Run Rd for some very nice little river (stream) valley curves the whole way. A deer jumped out of the thick brush between the creek & the road once here on me, be careful.

 

Then you hang a left on Hetzler Rd for a quick jog & continue forward where it splits off, onto Hinkle Rd to Rocky Rd, which transitions to chipseal somewhere (a bit bumpy but good curves to challenge you). 

 

There are also a few good curves on other adjacent roads, but this loop was the best continuous run I could find anywhere in the central & southern Dayton area all the way through Hamilton & the north end of Cincinatti. I rode all over that area in the evenings for one month and this was the most satisfying curves loop I could find.

 

122, Strebee Rd, W Alexandria Rd, Dickey Rd-to-NoMan's Rd, Thomas Rd, & Cloister Cliffs Dr to Sloebig Rd (southbound, or loop around the country club on Cloister to Sloebig to Thomas), those all have a handful of good curves as well if you care to study the map & ride the loop once & then explore a few side branches. Not much else in the way of twisties near there, but check out the terrain view map in your area to look for curvey roads near the hills.

[Chuck78]

Since Google keeps downgrading their once-amazing mapping service, I can now only show you the terrain view with no driving directions/routes on the map, but here it is:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.571876,-84.4085472,13z/data=!5m1!1e4

OR

https://goo.gl/maps/cYiHu

Edited May 2, 2015 by Chuck78

[Chuck78]

Crap that terrain view link now only displays the terrain layer on desktop/laptop browsers, not on mobile devices. If you compare the route & the terrain layer, you will see the Oxford Rd & Brown's Run to Hinkle Rd routes are on the most hilly terrain on the entire map, & also are the most curvey fun roads. Good correlation to watch out for when searching for fun roads in your area.  Also sometimes along rivers or creeks you will find twisty roads (& usually steep hills adjacent to them).

[Gunz]

I use to live there. If you stay on the State Route roads you will find all kinds of good rides. Head towards Bellbrook and Ceasars creek

[omni.gipson]

Ok as soon as this weather clears up I will do

[omni.gipson]

Thank you