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Highway riding video

shaggs2riches - 4-6-2011 at 09:16 PM

Must have been super smooth, but I'd wear a bit more protective gear, and I'd really worry bout possible traffic:puzzled:

macboy - 5-6-2011 at 12:11 AM

Seems to me i'd feel a load safer in a buggy seat but solid envy. I WISH I had the guts to rip up the highways! I'll have to start making mental notes about quiet, clear stretches of road. You know....without power poles and stuff. I would DEFINITELY make sure I had every camera I own rolling.

indigo_wolf - 5-6-2011 at 06:27 AM

:wow: Looks like he is running 9" or 10" scooter tires.

Kind of strange that there are no power or phone lines. Only road I can think of where you can get away with something like that are stretches of Rte. 380 between North Texas headed towards Soccoro, NM. Can go hours without seeing another vehicle and "fill up, last gas stop for nn miles" signs really aren't kidding.

ATB,
Sam

shaggs2riches - 5-6-2011 at 08:56 AM

Maybe its Amish Country???:ninja:

Seanny - 5-6-2011 at 03:55 PM

Okay Sam, seriously.

"Only road I can think of where you can get away with something like that are stretches of Rte. 380 between North Texas headed towards Soccoro, NM."

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT. YOU LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS.

I have my doubts that you are even human.

WTF man.

bobalooie57 - 5-6-2011 at 04:10 PM

Switzerland? I saw Payerne on one of his other vids.

indigo_wolf - 5-6-2011 at 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by Seanny
Okay Sam, seriously.

"Only road I can think of where you can get away with something like that are stretches of Rte. 380 between North Texas headed towards Soccoro, NM."

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT. YOU LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS.

I have my doubts that you are even human.

WTF man.


Live in MA... not born and/or anchored here my whole life. Have a few years on the odometer and have lived in a few states. Strictly speaking... not born on this continent. Raised by wolves, but weaned by snow leopards ;-)

I used to live north of Dallas. When I got first got there the lack of mountains started getting to me.

I got a new car on November 7th of that year, and a couple of days before Thanksgiving, I decided to head out. Didn't want to drive superslab, so I looked for two-lane blacktop that would get me most of the way. Rte 380 was it. You can pick it up in Denton, which was just North of where I lived and just keep going and going until it is time to head North.

The rode winds a lot, but takes you right through Roswell, NM and Capitan, NM (where Smokey the Bear was born and they now have a National Park).

I did take a "slight" detour to visit White Sands, cause I was in the "neighborhood." Lots of small towns, interesting diners and friendly people, strung out along some very, very untravelled road. Hours of not seeing another car or human being, seriously steep mountain drop offs with almost no shoulders, and dips and rises in the rode with no warning (oh the joys of lofting the front end of the car at 85 mph :o ).

A couple of years later I took the same road back on the way home from a circuit route that took me from Dallas -> San Antonio -> Big Bend -> White Sands, NM -> Roswell, NM -> Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.

Lots of impromptu, senseless road trips in my past....

ATB,
Sam

cheezycheese - 5-6-2011 at 09:23 PM

HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE !!!! he could have spilled some of that beer...!!! ;-)

shaggs2riches - 5-6-2011 at 09:51 PM

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Originally posted by cheezycheese
HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE !!!! he could have spilled some of that beer...!!! ;-)


yeah I only noticed the beer the second time around. :spin:

Seanny - 6-6-2011 at 08:46 AM

Sam's definitely inhuman ;)

Of all the places I've been to though, he would be correct in saying that area is completely empty and devoid of roadside obstacles for miles. It's the most empty stretch of road I've ever been on. Maybe the most open stretch in the country, unless there's a longer road like that through the mid/north-west... Nevada and such.

indigo_wolf - 6-6-2011 at 11:17 AM

Weird.... used to live about 3 hours from you.

Never been out there, but Route 50 in Nevada is about 400 miles of:
.

It's nickname is "The Loneliest Road in America".... I expect all kinds of shenanigans go on out there.

ATB,
Sam

Seanny - 6-6-2011 at 12:05 PM

I've never been out that way; I know this is getting way off-topic. But I've always wanted to go down an empty road like that through Nowhere, USA just to see what I could find. Wouldn't that be fun to kite down Route 50? :P