Please post photos of your favorite riding route

[Telmo]

Originally Posted by kay

Hi, Jerry (outlaw), c50tiger, Telmo and Inspiron!
The next step....just come over and see for yourselves!
By the way, there are rental bikes here so all you need to do is get on a plane and join us! (I know it's easier said than done)

The only problem is that the airline I work for isn't flying to Japan, Australia, New Zeland cause has been a dream of mine to visit those countries!!

Maybe one day

[inspiron]

Originally Posted by Telmo

Does that mean I can get that COOL on a June ride to the Swiss Alps???

GREAT

The wifes going to love that!!

Actually, that's what's left after the winter. The Alpine passes are closing now (some are already closed, others will be closed in November). When they re-open in late May, there can still be 2 to 3 meters of snow on the the sides of the road, depending how much snow has fallen later in the winter.

When we were up there, I was not wearing any special winter gear - it's cooler than down in the valleys, but not "freezing" - it was around 10°C up there, and about 20° to 25° in the flatlands.

[kay]

Originally Posted by Rice Burner

Kay, you reminded me of this Budweiser Commercial: ''Whassup Wasabi''
Hey stupid RB, this the board for posting pics.

Hahaha! Yes, I remember that TV ad!

[kay]

Telmo, you work for an airline!! Maybe I'll write LOTS of requests to custom service!

[kay]

I'd love to ride in Switzerland. I'd been there once and the whole country was simply beautiful! Seems like they have lots of twisties too!

[kay]

Originally Posted by c50tiger

Trust me, Kay - RB has been reminding me fairly regularly that I need to be saving my frequent flyer miles for the trip Hadn't been for that pesky trip to Las Vegas I'd be about 50,000 miles closer

Las Vegas is fun too! I not too much of a gambler, but been there twice; the first time, I went riding (horses) also saw "O", the second time I stopped over on the way to Salt Lake. It was such a fun place!

Ooops.

[kay]

Originally Posted by Rice Burner

Kay, Welcome to the Board ! Is it you on a red Ducati?

Sorry! I think I missed this one!

Yes. That was my very first ride on the Ducati and my very first ride on the tracks. I borrowed the bike from the dealer who had to bring out stools so that I could "climb" on the bike (I am VERY short). So I couldn't stop the bike unlil I found somebody who could hold it before it fell.

But I fell in love and a year later got one for myself and had it lowered. It's still quite big for me so I can only reach the ground with one foot with my butt off the seat!! My buddies say its like watching a circus act when I'm riding my 999.

[Samurai]

Hope you all have enjoyed the pics as much as I have enjoyed. Views are reaching almost 3,000. Let me show tiny statical data even the population is small.

Date the thread opened: 09/07/2006
Date the data collected: 10/29/2006 (JST)

Replies: 126 (=100%)
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Please let me borrow Pinhy's words when he opened his excellent picture thread.
Please do your best to make sure every post you make in this thread contains photo(s) - some exceptions to make the thread more enjoyable.

Thank you all.

[kay]

OK!
That means I'm going to have to be more serious about taking nice pics! I have tons of stupid ones but..........

Today I have pics of my Kawasaki Zephyr 750RS together with a Honda VTR SP-2 taken at the Ubara Beach in Chiba, Japan. They are also my favorite pics!!

[ChicsterMG]

Originally Posted by Rice Burner

Kay, you reminded me of this Budweiser Commercial: ''Whassup Wasabi''
Hey stupid RB, this the board for posting pics.

RB, I don't think you can jack you're own thread. So, go easy on yourself..hehe.

[c50tiger]

Originally Posted by kay

OK!
That means I'm going to have to be more serious about taking nice pics! I have tons of stupid ones but..........

Today I have pics of my Kawasaki Zephyr 750RS together with a Honda VTR SP-2 taken at the Ubara Beach in Chiba, Japan. They are also my favorite pics!!

Nice beach Seeing the net on the back of the Zephyr... wish I'd had my camera with me last night to show a friend of mine learning why you should not use one of those to try to secure two cases of Bud Light to the pillion seat of a Harley Davidson FXDX.

[Samurai]

>>Tiger:IRTFM
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
COGITO EGGO SUM: I think, therefore I am... a waffle

One of IRTFM's functions: Blocking Non-English messages (Russian, Chinese, Korean, Etc Spam) - how about Japanese?

Today made a quick ride to the East Izu. Doesn't the pic look like a steak in Fl.?

btw - a new suspension bridge (only for pedestrians - 390m long, 173m high) opened today in Oita Pref. in Kyushu.

Oh - Kay, did you wash your bike right on the beautiful beach afterwards?

[kay]

Wow!! That is surely a gorgeous bridge!!

As for cleaning the bike, I usually do a quick cleaning job right after I return any way, whether it was a beach or not that I visited. By the way, I didn't go into the sand. I know these pics look as if I did, but there's a road right adjacent to the beach area where I parked the bike. So no sand.

Today's pics are from the Fuji Speed Way, the race track where the F1 races will be held starting next year. You can acutally see mount Fuji, right behind.
It's been renewed to prepare for the F1 races so it's really a beautiful place with wonderrful facilities.

A friend of mine gave me the pic (the second one) that he took while ON the tracks. I wouldn't have the nerve to take out my camera there!

[kay]

It seems quiet these days.
So I am posting another of my favorite pics. This was taken in Hakone during my recent rides when night was falling and the sky was beautiful!
Soon it became pitch dark. (pretty scary too)

[Samurai]

Kay, your new Avatar looks good and beautiful sunset. Okay here's some sunrise pics from the lodge on my favorite riding route in winter time near Okawa, Izu Peninsula. 3rd pic: the sign of the hotel (15 minutes from the lodge) that went kaput some years ago, that says グランド ハテル (Grand Devastated), should be ホテル (Hotel) but the pieces (can be seen vaguely) came off or some one took them for fun ... 　

[C2W?]

Here's my "No-Slab" route from San Diego to Reno. . . . 1380 miles including Hiway 1 and some of the best "riding" roads in the Sierras. . . .




PCH Oceanside. . . .


Hiway early in the morning with a little low hanging fog. . . . .Yeehaaaaaaaa

[Samurai]

Have just got an e_mail with this pic, wanted to share - would be fantastic if we rode here.

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by SNAFU

What did you expect? They don't call this the Prairies for nothing.

I'm sorry! I feel so bad for you. That's why I left central Michigan. Now I live in the land of the twisties.

[kay]

Bob (C2W?) and RB, Beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful pics!! I hear so much about Sierra, but never been there myself. I'd love to be there one day, but I won't be able to bring my bike over and I don't think I can rent them either (I need to have them lowered!!). So I guess I'll just have to rent a car. Damn!

[kay]

Originally Posted by Rice Burner

Kay, your new Avatar looks good and beautiful sunset. Okay here's some sunrise pics from the lodge on my favorite riding route in winter time near Okawa, Izu Peninsula. 3rd pic: the sign of the hotel (15 minutes from the lodge) that went kaput some years ago, that says グランド ハテル (Grand Devastated), should be ホテル (Hotel) but the pieces (can be seen vaguely) came off or some one took them for fun ... 　

Thank you RB. It is quite embarrassing though. I'd probably feel more comfortable with a bycicle pic or even one with a tricycle! Hehehe.........