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How are you all ???
After a few months of buying a bike....and doing a few short rides of 50-100miles, yesterday I went on a 400mile(~650km) ride to the White Mountains. FYI White Mountains or Mt. Washington is the tallest mountain in the New England area of USA. It tops at 6300feet or about 1.9 km. It supposedly has the worst weather in the world.
As you probably know, I had joined a bikers group called New England Street Riders a few months ago and so it was with them that I went on the ride. We were a group of 13 riders, I was the only one from Boston, a few were from/near Haverhill and the rest from/near Epping, New Hampshire. The bikes ranged from Yamaha R6, Suzuiki SV, lots of gixxers, ninja zx6r, a honda vfr and then the big one, a ninja zx14rr.
For the most part of it, we took all the scenic and twisty back roads. We also did the Hurricane Mountain Road, heard a lot of scary stuff about its elevation changing and steep roads, but it was fun...real solid fun! The HMR is a very narrow road, at its widest it can fit a honda CRV...and it is two lanes....and it was all wet coz of the passing showers!!! It was not as scary as I heard and previous riders had told me, one of the rider had actually misjudged a corner and went into the forests.
After HMR we headed to the White Mountains Road ....for ppl who havent been here....unlike the HMR ...this one is a decently wide road, mostly with 2 lanes. On this road was the first time we encountered clouds....not in the sky...but among us...yea...we were riding in the clouds....with around 50ft visibility, it was crazy....well...thats not the end of it....it was not so scary here coz the roads were wide enough. Everybody were doing tops on this road...around 150mph ...all were in triple digits...hehe.
Then we paid the $14 toll for Mt. Washington Auto Road and got going for the summit. OMG ...what a freaking crazy road!!! Initially it was not so difficult, but as we rode higher and higher....what was a neat tarmac changed into a dirt road(imagine riding a sportsbike on dirt!!!!)....with no guard rails on one side(and the mountain on the other!).....with winds blowing through and add to it...clouds!! From around 5000ft or so on the mountain we were in the clouds....it was almost zero visibility. On the way down...my bike's rear brake stopped working coz of the heat...rode only on engine-braking...in 1st gear for sometime but dint want to take risk so stopped for 5mins for the brakes to cool down.
After Mt. Washington, we went to Evan's Notch, it was raining throughout this route, so couldn't stop at a few scenic spots. We stopped at a store for a lil while coz of the rain and then headed back home from North Conway, New Hampshire.
Sad part is....I did not take a camera. Here are the pics(abt 20) taken by members of the group ----
At the base of HMR
It was a gixxer fest!
Mt. Washington Auto Rooooooooad....somewhere around 4000ft
Among the clouds....my humble ninja zx750
Moutains!!!
On the way up...
At the summit...in the parking lot....about 6288ft or 1.9km above sea level..
In gixxer cloud
While coming down...we stopped at around 5000ft and took a few pics
Stuck in the rain!!!
Trying to stay dry...hehe...they bought those trash bags in the store!!
The ninja did its 20,000'th mile on this trip
Wacky helmet add-on!
Crash'd ninja
All in all....it was a fantastic ride....fun...dangerous...scary...adventurous...it had all the stuff I wanted in a ride!
How are you all ???
After a few months of buying a bike....and doing a few short rides of 50-100miles, yesterday I went on a 400mile(~650km) ride to the White Mountains. FYI White Mountains or Mt. Washington is the tallest mountain in the New England area of USA. It tops at 6300feet or about 1.9 km. It supposedly has the worst weather in the world.
As you probably know, I had joined a bikers group called New England Street Riders a few months ago and so it was with them that I went on the ride. We were a group of 13 riders, I was the only one from Boston, a few were from/near Haverhill and the rest from/near Epping, New Hampshire. The bikes ranged from Yamaha R6, Suzuiki SV, lots of gixxers, ninja zx6r, a honda vfr and then the big one, a ninja zx14rr.
For the most part of it, we took all the scenic and twisty back roads. We also did the Hurricane Mountain Road, heard a lot of scary stuff about its elevation changing and steep roads, but it was fun...real solid fun! The HMR is a very narrow road, at its widest it can fit a honda CRV...and it is two lanes....and it was all wet coz of the passing showers!!! It was not as scary as I heard and previous riders had told me, one of the rider had actually misjudged a corner and went into the forests.
After HMR we headed to the White Mountains Road ....for ppl who havent been here....unlike the HMR ...this one is a decently wide road, mostly with 2 lanes. On this road was the first time we encountered clouds....not in the sky...but among us...yea...we were riding in the clouds....with around 50ft visibility, it was crazy....well...thats not the end of it....it was not so scary here coz the roads were wide enough. Everybody were doing tops on this road...around 150mph ...all were in triple digits...hehe.
Then we paid the $14 toll for Mt. Washington Auto Road and got going for the summit. OMG ...what a freaking crazy road!!! Initially it was not so difficult, but as we rode higher and higher....what was a neat tarmac changed into a dirt road(imagine riding a sportsbike on dirt!!!!)....with no guard rails on one side(and the mountain on the other!).....with winds blowing through and add to it...clouds!! From around 5000ft or so on the mountain we were in the clouds....it was almost zero visibility. On the way down...my bike's rear brake stopped working coz of the heat...rode only on engine-braking...in 1st gear for sometime but dint want to take risk so stopped for 5mins for the brakes to cool down.
After Mt. Washington, we went to Evan's Notch, it was raining throughout this route, so couldn't stop at a few scenic spots. We stopped at a store for a lil while coz of the rain and then headed back home from North Conway, New Hampshire.
Sad part is....I did not take a camera. Here are the pics(abt 20) taken by members of the group ----
At the base of HMR
It was a gixxer fest!
Mt. Washington Auto Rooooooooad....somewhere around 4000ft
Among the clouds....my humble ninja zx750
Moutains!!!
On the way up...
At the summit...in the parking lot....about 6288ft or 1.9km above sea level..
In gixxer cloud
While coming down...we stopped at around 5000ft and took a few pics
Stuck in the rain!!!
Trying to stay dry...hehe...they bought those trash bags in the store!!
The ninja did its 20,000'th mile on this trip
Wacky helmet add-on!
Crash'd ninja
All in all....it was a fantastic ride....fun...dangerous...scary...adventurous...it had all the stuff I wanted in a ride!
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