Saturday, June 8, 2013

The RidicuLoop

I installed the braided brake lines and clutch line this week. The weather was perfect and the bike too, so I decided to plan a ridiculous loop (The "Ridiculoop") up north of the city to explore some of the alphabet roads around here. Alphabet roads being Missouri state highways with letters instead of numbers.
With the exception of one small road that I was unable to find, I managed to stick to the route completely....even when the pavement ended and turned to gravel. I maybe dealt with 5 or 7 miles of gravel over two stretches of road. I have to say I really enjoy painstakingly coming up with a good route by pouring over Google Maps. Taping the route to the tank is badass for some reason. And I like trying to navigate it to the letter.
I was rewarded with a decent number of twisties. Not anything near as good as Arkansas, but it'll do in a pinch. 217 miles for the day. No incidents or contact with law enforcement. I'm approaching 53k on the odometer.
Forgive the quality of the pics as they were taken with my crappy cell phone.
As for the last pic.....I just held my breath and prayed it wouldn't slip out of first gear while I snapped a photo.