| Author | Message | ||
     Wolfridgerider |
So I'm on my way to the Res Ride via my folks house when I get distracted by another squirrel... no biggie, just fire up the GPS and aim it toward a town that I know is on my way.... THE BASTARD GPS! tells me to take the next right... cool, 3 miles and I will be back on track... its a blacktop road... kinda narrow... ooohhh aaahhh look at that! 1 lane covered bridge.. Hey the road didn't widen on the other side.... no biggie, keep rolling... that black top is turning pretty crappy... WHO CARES!! I'm on a ULY. onward we go... WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK TOP??!! Just rocks now... 1.5 miles to go to the hard ball... the gravel is gettin thin... .6 miles to go.. NO MORE GRAVEL!! WTF?!?!? I grew up on dirt!! Lets keep rolling!! WTF HAPPENED TO THE ROAD?!?! It was washed out! thats what! Now I'm on a 4 wheeler trail that a billy goat would have had a hard time on... DUCK!! tree laying across the goat path.. .3 miles to go... If I dump it here, I'm screwed! HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS PATH EVEN ON MY GPS?!?!? Deep rut... mud hole... up hill down hill.. Corsa III's suck on the mud.. FINALLY more gravel... City Slicker would be proud... Damn bike is a MESS! Things are about to get bad.... the road to the rear was nice...  compared to what was ahead...  On the other side. I should have stopped and taken a pic or two of the washed out road, but if I would have dropped the bike I would have been hosed!  I NEED A DIRT BIKE!!  | ||
| Badlionsfan |
MudBug will be sportin a chub when he sees this thread. | ||
| Sifo |
I just ordered a GPS online this week. The very next day I hear that the GPS satellites will start to fail next year... Now this! I hope you made it to where you were heading. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
It was fun and I was laughing the whole way.... I know at one point in time it was a 1 lane gravel road and I would have been just fine way back when.... but can't we get a update every now and then?? | ||
| Etennuly |
I did mention in one of the other threads that you suck.....right?  Let me reiterate a bit.....YOU SUCK!!!!  That is so cool to do. Nothing like closing your eyes and picking a road on the way. now back to your regular programming!  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
You should be in bed Vern! Its a school night for you!.... LOL | ||
| Etennuly |
Dude, My youngest graduated last week. School is over, unless I go back. I am working in the office, taking a break or two. I started at 6 am....you might be right about the bed time. Where are you now? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I'm at the folks house watching the B-Ball game, surfing the BadWeb. | ||
| Etennuly |
I was right! you suck! I'm going home now. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Kinda reminds me of "pig trail" in Arkansas. Wonder if it's on the GPS? | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Had a couple (quite a few actually to the tune of about 60 miles) of GPS moments like that on the PA Burger Run last month. My wife learned very quickly how to ride on dirt, and discovered that her BMW does pretty good on the less beaten path. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
My cellphone has a gps built in! Nokia Navigator. I hardly ever use it. If you want to use it for anything other than seeing where you are, you have to subscribe to the service. I'd rather use a road atlas anyway, reminds me gotta replace my Michelin one as some of the pages are falling out. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
I love when GPS takes me to new locations. Best one so far was a goat trail off of 550 (million $ hyw) in Colorado. I was heading from Silverton to Telluride, and didn't feel like driving all the way around. At the time my lowly Honda element was packed full of heavy stuff. At 11000ft it didn't have a lot of power, or ground clearance left. Yes this goat trail was listed as a real road.   | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Kinda looks like the Sand People will be waiting for you when ride thru that pass... | ||
| Spiderman |
that is awesome! | ||
| Thump4fun |
That's crazy cool fun! "All your roads are belong to us," so sayeth the Wolf on the Uly. LOL | ||
| Swampy |
Boreas Pass, makes a nice shortcut between Como and Breckenridge, CO. I turned around about 10 miles into it because of the snow, I should have paid attention to the little sign by the side of the road that said closed. I have some nice pictures somewhere... | ||
| 99savage |
In PA mine sent me down a dirt road, etched into the side of a mountain. Look to the left & see a field full of big birds & say to mother "Look at the Turkeys". Mother says "Those Aren’t Turkeys, They're Vultures”, was a tad nervous till I saw pavement. | ||
| Etennuly |
Not to worry, those kind of vultures won't kill you. They will only eat you if you are mortally wounded or already dead.  | ||
| 99savage |
I figured the vultures were waiting around till we dropped off the side of the mountain. Sort'a "meals on wheels" for the avian set. Same trip Tom-Tom directed us to the banks of the Susquehanna. - Sadly trip was in April & ferry does not start till May. (Message edited by 99Savage on May 24, 2009) | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Vultures have a nasty habit of attempting flight right in front of you. I know of someone that got hit by a Vulture at highway speed. Pushed him clean off the back of the bike and snapped a collar bone in the process. Big birds can be dangerous for us motorcyclist. | ||
| Bartimus |
Yea, ya just can't trust them things!  | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
189mph hmmm??? I take it your Uly got caught up in a tornado? |
