|
|
|
Junior Member
 
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Today @ 10:43:49 AM
Posts: 335,
Visits: 1,011
|
|
| I thought I'd celebrate our new forum by posting some pictures from last Fall's 24th annual Death Valley weekend. All photo credits go to Jeffery Stoutenborough, Architect. 
Pesky Pedestrians 
Bad Water...as low as it gets 
Making love to a wine 
Downtown Rhyolite 
Big Country 
Jeff discovers 6th gear 
Janice and Ken 
The End
Wife,R1,Kendon,Mountaineer,Alpinestars,Levis,Bose
|
|
|
|
|
Average Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/29/2009 7:30:13 PM
Posts: 705,
Visits: 485
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Yesterday @ 6:16:26 AM
Posts: 258,
Visits: 920
|
|
| Wasn't that OHG's wife, Michele Smith, in the first picture?
|
|
|
|
|
Average Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/28/2009 5:10:09 PM
Posts: 590,
Visits: 436
|
|
130 mph - hmm, I guess being on the East Pot Hole Coast that seems a little insane.
Great photos and I am envious - one day I'm gonna head west for some long distance rides.
The "Z" MAN - North Carolina
1995 BMW R1100R - MOA #115950
Olympia, Scorpion, Gerbings, & Alpinestars
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Today @ 10:43:49 AM
Posts: 335,
Visits: 1,011
|
|
drummer (6/2/2006)
130 mph - hmm, I guess being on the East Pot Hole Coast that seems a little insane.
Great photos and I am envious - one day I'm gonna head west for some long distance rides. How does one describe riding in California? It would take a book. I've riden in most of the lower 48 and California is unique. My wife is from Boston and I've spent a few years in Virginia so we can vouch for your potholes. I guess the operative word here is freedom. There is little to no traffic enforcement on our favorite roads...even though some are state highways. The only law that governs your rate of travel is the law of physics, though we are careful to be respectful of other road users. Actually we don't spend much time at triple digits. Unless you have the neck muscles of an NFL lineman, you won't enjoy high speed cruising on an R1. We much prefer the twisties. There are many, many roads where it is not possible for us to exceed the posted 55 mph limit and bring it home in one piece. The local canyons begin 8 miles from our garage door. But back to the picture. We were out of Death Valley and headed for breakfast. The road was straight with no driveways, intersections, houses, or even trees. Jeff was riding solo, so he obviously felt comfortable enough to take the picture of his instruments himself. Actually Janice was leading and Jeff was 25 mph off the pace...never come between my wife and her morning coffee.
Wife,R1,Kendon,Mountaineer,Alpinestars,Levis,Bose
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Today @ 10:43:49 AM
Posts: 335,
Visits: 1,011
|
|
| My wife tells me I should post a few more pictures of the weekend. I like to eat so here they come. 
The prerequisite coasting race...don't ask where I finished. 
Jeff pulls a gap 
Jeff architect, photographer, insomniac 
Titus Canyon 
Cook street bank in Rhyloite 
Our exodus 
Bye Bye
Wife,R1,Kendon,Mountaineer,Alpinestars,Levis,Bose
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/28/2009 3:27:19 PM
Posts: 422,
Visits: 651
|
|
| WOW! Those are some great pictures. Brings back many memories of the days when I used to ride the deserts and mountains out there in CA and Nevada and Arizona. California is a great state to ride - except for the LA basin of course! One of my favorite routes was 295 from I-15 up through Lone Pine and further north. I did alot of ghost town hunting when I lived out there and there are a few around Owens Lake and further east along the Panamint Range that borders Death Valley. Ballarat sticks out in my mind.
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/14/2006 9:30:34 AM
Posts: 336,
Visits: 3
|
|
| Great pics !!!! Got any more ??
|
|
|
|
|
Starting Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 7/16/2006 5:31:37 AM
Posts: 12,
Visits: 68
|
|
RePete-thanks for rekindling some of my fondest memories of Death Valley. I've toured the park on countless occasions and once in late spring, after coming from the relatively cool Armagosa Valley and farting around in Badwater and the Devil's golf course, I had to pull in at the Furnace Creek Inn and jump in the fountain before I hit the pavement headfirst from heat exhaustion (Warning: fountain frolicking not recommended-management staff probably won’t appreciate hot sweaty bikers in their pretty water display) !
From the looks of your pics, you were enjoying the park the way it should be-lots of stops for sights coupled with hi-speed jaunts between them!
Wish I coulda tagged along….
It is better to break ground and head into the wind than to break wind and head into the ground. 
|
|
|
|