What's your best ride ever?

Kirby State Park in Arkansas. 37 mile loop thru Weyerhauser forest. Piney woods , creeks and some nasty hills to scale. My old KX 250 went through it with ease. Great fun.

Bluemeanie wrote:

No particular best road for me but here in SoCal we have many fantastic roads from coastal to mountains and in between. Many great choices...

I have to agree with John, way too many cool roads to pick a best.

Mark

The best ride is always the last one such as this mornings clutch replacement test ride...

Sure the clutch needs some fine tuning/adjustments but you know why it's the best... I made it home safely!

Second best... Night rides in the Sierra Nevada's... Actually any mountain run at night where it's pitch black other than the stars & head light and the sound echoing through the valley's is just pure magic....

OMR

Around here most GREAT rides involve the Cascade Range. My favorite ride is 225 miles long. Start in "The Best Place", Bend Oregon. Ride south past Bachelor Butte, the ski crowd will know it as "Mt. Bachelor", which it ain't. You'll really have to tough it out, as you ride right past the bases of the Three Sisters and Brokentop. Continue south to Hwy 58. Head west through Oakridge. One mile west of Oakridge follow the signs to WestFir, don't skip the covered bridge park, good lunch spot. Take NF-19 north. You're in for fifty miles of paved forest road through some very beautiful west side Oregon forests. You'll come out on the high side of Cougar Reservoir. After winding around the west side of the reservoir you'll come out onto Hwy 126. Head east till you encounter Rt 242 to McKenzie Pass. Head south east for a great ascent up to DeWright Observatory. Be careful here the road is BITCHIN but the traffic is dense. Seems as if these MPA's (metropolitan piss ants) loose track of the purpose of the yellow lines after they've climbed up from Sisters. Definitely stop at the DeWright Observatory. I seriously doubt that Mr. O's stimulus package will even come close to leaving the legacy that Franklin Rosevelt's CCC did. If you skip this Observatory you'll miss one of the CCC's gems. The next twenty, or so, miles weave downhill through alpine forests eventually spilling out into the Hi-Desert Ponderosa pine forests, spectacular views of open forests with GIANT pinetrees. Next stop is Sisters, Or which used to be a logging town till the Butters from Black Butte Ranch polluted it with millions upon millions of dollars. Bend is only seventeen miles ahead.

This is my favorite local ride.

Bill