Well, I'm back safe and sound, arrived at about 6:20 this evening. I'm showing a grand total of 353 miles for the day.
Attendees were Leo and Joel (lord1234 and Pano). We were scheduled to meet at 9:30am this morning, In White River Junction VT, and the day was gorgeous.\\
/ Leo and Joel, both from MA met early and hit the highway from the Lowell area. I'm much further north and east, so I just thought I'd meet them at the start, but I thought to myself, if I time it right I'll hit the highway just as they are coming up route 89. Amazingly I wasn't ripping up 89 for more than 4 minutes before I see two bikes up ahead. Yup, it's them!! Joel on his newly aquired 81 Katana 1000, and Leo on his 83 650G. Perfect.
This was the gap run, I have thought about doing it for years. Even though I had been on most of these roads many times before, the plan was to ride across the Green Mountain range of VT back and forth all day. It worked out pretty well, except I had us mapped over Lincoln Gap, one I thought was paved for sure. We came up from the West, as we had already run over the range once, on Bethel Mountain road and through Middlebury Gap. Oh well, the GPS worked flawlessly getting us to the dirt road, I just should have looked closer on the map software. Yet another group ride where I take the gang for a bit of off-roading, NH style.
So we backtracked and got on course again. Driving north took us to Rt. 17, and up that insane, road. I don't know what the name of that gap is, but it's the road that Mad River Glen is on and is as challenging as Deals Gap.
Wouldn't you know it, but misfortune hit one of us. Sadly, he was in the back, and, being less swift in the twisties was making up time. Yep, our own Leo had yet ANOTHER run in with a LEO. Up at the top of the gap, about 3300 feet in elevation, a symbolic picture was snapped of his fast driver award by a freindly Hog rider........
Attendees were Leo and Joel (lord1234 and Pano). We were scheduled to meet at 9:30am this morning, In White River Junction VT, and the day was gorgeous.\\
/ Leo and Joel, both from MA met early and hit the highway from the Lowell area. I'm much further north and east, so I just thought I'd meet them at the start, but I thought to myself, if I time it right I'll hit the highway just as they are coming up route 89. Amazingly I wasn't ripping up 89 for more than 4 minutes before I see two bikes up ahead. Yup, it's them!! Joel on his newly aquired 81 Katana 1000, and Leo on his 83 650G. Perfect.This was the gap run, I have thought about doing it for years. Even though I had been on most of these roads many times before, the plan was to ride across the Green Mountain range of VT back and forth all day. It worked out pretty well, except I had us mapped over Lincoln Gap, one I thought was paved for sure. We came up from the West, as we had already run over the range once, on Bethel Mountain road and through Middlebury Gap. Oh well, the GPS worked flawlessly getting us to the dirt road, I just should have looked closer on the map software. Yet another group ride where I take the gang for a bit of off-roading, NH style.
So we backtracked and got on course again. Driving north took us to Rt. 17, and up that insane, road. I don't know what the name of that gap is, but it's the road that Mad River Glen is on and is as challenging as Deals Gap. Wouldn't you know it, but misfortune hit one of us. Sadly, he was in the back, and, being less swift in the twisties was making up time. Yep, our own Leo had yet ANOTHER run in with a LEO. Up at the top of the gap, about 3300 feet in elevation, a symbolic picture was snapped of his fast driver award by a freindly Hog rider........
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