great exploratory ride report... been on these roads Britman?

[hubcapsc]

Me and Jim played hooky from the computer center today and went and checked out some roads
north of hiway 64 in North Carolina. A few years ago I posted that hiway 281 in North Carolina
went dirt... well, it is paved now... we bounced around on great roads between 64, 281 and 215,
the best one being Walnut Creek Road, full of twisties and elevation changes and high quality
gravel free pavement. Here's a google map of the new-to-me roads we explored...

http://tinyurl.com/3yke44u

It rained in Seneca all night, and was raining when I woke up at six, I wondered what was going
to happen to our hooky plans, but when I left at 7:30 it was not raining, and we saw no rain all
day - it was overcast and cool all day.



Now that it is paved, you can't beat 281 with a stick...







Except that it has too much gravel in places...



Jim has one of those BMWs that looks like a cross between a dirt bike and a cruiser...



What with Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Southerners didn't have much to do with July 4th
until after WWI, some places not until after WWII, but here's to riding 107 on July 4 weekend:



This is Tilley Creek Road, lots of twisties and elevation changes, but not a very
confidence inspiring road surface a lot of the time... I found myself "drifting" a few
times...







I turned the little camera off when Tilley Creek hit 64, I was going to turn it back
on if Walnut Creek Road turned out to be any good, but Walnut Creek was so good
I didn't want to stop to turn the camera on 

Grabbed a sandwich at a place in Cashiers, and headed down the South Carolina
part of 107...



My favorite part of any ride...



What is that, can I have it?



-Mike

[big turkey]

We should as people,,,,,, play Hooky more often.

You picked a Good day for it.

And we are the richer now........... that you have posted a few great Pics.

Thanks

Big Al

[Jess from VA]

Jim has one of those BMWs that looks like a cross between a dirt bike and a cruiser...

Mike, many call the "GS" a cross between a John Deere tractor and a motorcycle.   

Neat pics.  We had three days of beautifully cool weather, and I've been over in WVa mountains.  I don't have to play hooky, I'm retired (every day is hooky  LOL)

[thumper]

Thanks for the roads Mike.  Maybe we could meet you up there some Sat. morning and ride them with you.

[..]

Those roads plus the section of the BRP that they criss cross are excellent. I'll be around there in August.

[Normandog]

Good report Mike and thanks. I've ridden all those roads and had plans for getting back on 281 this year to see if they had finished paving it. An excellent road for sure.  Give me a call next time you play hooky if you don't mind a real Carolinian tagging along. North Carolina is THE Carolina. You knew that didn't you ?   

[hubcapsc]

Neat pics.  We had three days of beautifully cool weather, and I've been over in WVa mountains.  I don't have to play hooky, I'm retired (every day is hooky  LOL)

That's where I want to go... I rode down 219 from Ronceverte to where it connects to 460. I got
behind a giant coal truck, but he went plenty fast  ...

-Mike

[hubcapsc]

Good report Mike and thanks. I've ridden all those roads and had plans for getting back on 281 this year to see if they had finished paving it. An excellent road for sure.  Give me a call next time you play hooky if you don't mind a real Carolinian tagging along. North Carolina is THE Carolina. You knew that didn't you ?   

Back before the Internet became important to big-wigs, University of South Carolina's domain name
was theusc.edu...

Thumper and the Georgians want to go too... if we go all the way over 215 we could hook Crabtree Mountain
road in too... might take all day...

-Mike

[Normandog]

Good report Mike and thanks. I've ridden all those roads and had plans for getting back on 281 this year to see if they had finished paving it. An excellent road for sure.  Give me a call next time you play hooky if you don't mind a real Carolinian tagging along. North Carolina is THE Carolina. You knew that didn't you ?   

Back before the Internet became important to big-wigs, University of South Carolina's domain name
was theusc.edu...

Thumper and the Georgians want to go too... if we go all the way over 215 we could hook Crabtree Mountain
road in too... might take all day...

-Mike