Motorcycle trip to WV -- Day 3

Another day of riding the mountain roads in and around Canaan Valley, WV. Today's weather couldn't have been more perfect. The roads were great, little traffic, and beautiful scenery.

Last evening at dinner we met a couple who convinced us we should go on one of the hiking trails at Seneca Rocks National Park. We arrived at the Park at 3pm and headed for the Seneca Trail which is a short 1.5 miles but a nontrivial 1000 ft rise in elevation. It took about 45 min to make the climb. The view was terrific.
















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Location:Canaan Valley WV

WV motorcycle trip day 2 -- Canaan Valley

Cool temps...50s at 3700'...I should have brought my leather jacket. I'm not complaining though because cool temps beats hot temps every time.

We made a loop around Canaan Valley, which as far as I can tell, is really the top of a mountain. Very pretty out here. I've seen many windmill "farms" in California but was a little surprised to see them here. WV more progressive than I thought?










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Location:Canaan Valley, WV

Road trip to Seneca Rocks WV

Got a late start because we had to wait for the pharmacy to open...getting older has stopped being fun. Leaving at 10:30 smacked us up against a weather front and we hit the rain just as we entered Gainesville requiring us to don our rain gear. Remembering the peek I took at the weather map earlier, we bailed on our plan to ride Rte 211 and stayed on Rte 29 to get south of the rain as quick as we could. By the time we got to Culpeper, it looked like we were going to stay dry.
Turning west on Rte 33, we crossed the Skyline Drive and the weather was beautiful on the mountain top. It was cool, the temp immediately dropped 10 degrees, not humid, and the sky was crystal blue. One of those experiences that confirms the rightness of riding motorcycles. Alas, it was short lived: as we came down the mountain, the temp went back up, the humidity started to rise, and the realization that it's the end of June came back. Ah well...
Stopped for lunch in Harrisonburg. Will get back on 33 west into WV and then turn north on Rte 55 towards the cabin.




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Location:Harrisonburg VA

First ride 2012 season

We took a short ride heading out on Rte 211 and then north on state road 615 meandering back to Front Royal to eat lunch and then back home before company arrived. Hot for May (upper 80s), but a nice ride.

GPS stats: 

• overall avg speed: 26.7 mph 
• moving avg speed: 43.5 mph 
• maximum speed: total time: 6 hrs, 48 min 
• moving time: 4 hrs, 10 min 
• stopped time: 2 hrs, 38 min 

And a short video clip:

Bluetooth For Motorcycle Helmets - webBikeWorld

Is this where motorcycle helmet communications is going?



Bluetooth For Motorcycle Helmets - webBikeWorld:

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Aug 13 motorcycle ride to no where...

Well, to Orange VA for a bite to eat. Not thinking too hard about this ride, we took off Saturday morning with little planning trying hard to stay off roads we routinely travel heading to Orange to eat lunch and for my wife and her friend to do some window shopping in the local antique stores. We dodged rain all day. It came a down pour while we were eating. But luckily, we didn't ride in the rain (very much). All in all, this turned out to be a nice trip. See below the map and a few pics I took along the way.
View Larger Map Taking a quick break at Kelly's Ford:

Downtown Orange, VA:

Also, here's a video I took using my Canon point & shoot with a piece of tape over the microphone to cut wind noise. It did a pretty good job!

Harley 3 wheeled prototypes?

Allegedly, Harley commissioned this prototype in the late '90s and revised it (the orange version) in the mid '00s. An interesting take on 3 wheeled motorcycles! Check out the details.

Can you sleep on your motorcycle?

I think I may have gotten too use to a king size bed...

So maybe this would be a better idea?

Britian's oldest motorcyclist at 94

I wonder how they know he's the oldest?

Check out the story here.

BMW Motorcycle builds a scooter...really?

Who says penny-pinching on gas has to be uncool? Check out the details on Motorcycle.com