Across ???!!!! heck ...GPS led us DOWN a dry creek bed in PA. Got turned around with some difficulty.
Was surprised how well the big Burgman handled the rocks.
Motorcycles are meant for riding ...who cares what they look like.
It wasn't called "Mountain Road" by chance, was it?
This was on our ill fated planned trip to the Dragon late last summer - forecast down there was for 4 straight days of torrential rain so we bailed and did a tour over to Lake Placid, skipped a few hours south, and then spent 3 days poking along all sorts of little roads here and there headed westward and back up through Buffalo. I'd plot about 2 hours at a time, then we'd stop for stretch and for food/gas/whatever, I'd plot a new section, and we'd go again.
At one point we were sitting at a Taco Bell eating lunch somewhere in PA and I plotted our next leg. There was this cool looking road on Google Maps that had lots of switchbacks and such in it that looked like it'd be hella fun.
So, off we went.
About 10-20KM into "mountain road" it turned out to be basically a hunt camp access road. Complete with hunt camps. And then the road disappeared and turned into what looked like a dry river bed. I stopped and looked back at the 2 buddies with me - one on his brand new FJR (First ride) and another on his Vstar 1100. I flashed the thumbs up/thumbs down signal and got thumbs up back. 30 seconds later my bike is banging rocks off the skid plate, my FJR friend is shaking his head but making progresss, and my older friend on his Vstar is pissing himself laughing as his bike banged and thumped over rocks and boulders, legs out like outriggers, headlight flashing everywhere.
We made it to the other side and the road went back and forth between dirt and asphalt for about another 10km till we got to the bottom of the mountain.
We still laugh about it to this day. Awesome memories.
Bikes all handled it admirably. Wish we had pictures. We're actually contemplating going back some day and there WILL be video.
