OH 555 **Warning**

[nickybcareful]

Hi 2Pokey, you said:

Although Im am still learning to keep the Rs up, I am used to big CCs.

Yea, that's the trick.  My Ducati redlines at about 8,000.  I try to enter turns at 5,000, that way I have plenty of engine braking if I come in to hot, but can ripe out of the apex in the middle of the torque curve. Great fun!  I suppose your FZ6 revs higher - cool!

[Bjorn Toulouse]

What the hell and where the hell is Big Muskie?!?!?

Check out:  http://little-mountain.com/bigmuskie/

The ultimate sandbox toy!



Rex

[thompsonian]

Hmm...to think. All this time I've lived here I never noticed it!

[gremor]

Been there!
Great roads in all directions!
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[thompsonian]

Yeah, I've ventured out MANY of the roads out that way, but I had never heard of Big Muskie...

[MilleArp]

I would kill to have those roads in Mi.

   ME too !!!

[skibum]

No Way!
I was just down 555 south of Bartlett (550) to 7 on the 9th of this month. The road was clean and very enjoyable except for the weird patching they had done. 100yards of patch followed by 100 yards unpatched. That went on for a while. Didn't affect the riding, but just felt weird. 536 had some gravel in some of the curves on the northbound side, but that was being swept out by traffic. That was from 7 to 78.
What was a surprise was 556 from 7 northbound. I thought I was going to enjoy the road to myself until about the fifth turn, a right -hander. I went out a little in the groove and saw myself looking at the grill of a semi coming at me. I thought I was going to be bug-snot on a Peterbuilt radiator. It was just one rig after another. I stopped at a 1 pump town and talked to the guys. It turns out there was some work being done on a local bridge and the coal company rerouted it's trucks down that road. Bye-Bye 556. I KNOW where that gravel is coming from. Every time one of those trucks would come through a curve, a back wheel would go off the road and pull the gravel into the turn.

[MrSnrub]

I rode part of 555 about a month ago. The stretch from 37 to 78 was freshly paved with no gravel. Good times!  But 78 near Burr Oak does kick some major ass too.  

I'd also like to know where exactly is this Big Muskie is located.  

[thompsonian]

Big Muskie is somewhere off of 83 I think off of 78. I looked it up on the link that someone put up on this post and it should be near Reinersville. I might try to swing by it today on my way home on the FJR.

[matkal]

Not having a map in front of me.......

Big Muskee is on 78 west of McConnelsville.
East of 555

[nickybcareful]

Hi matkal, gremor, 2pokey, et al...

Thanks for your tips.  I too have joined the Big Muskie club...



After 800 miles, I finally found a straight road!!!



BTW - 555 is in excellent condition, but there are sooooooo many good road to chose from in SE Ohio.  

[Bjorn Toulouse]

The Big Muskie bucket is in Miner's Memorial Park.
If you are coming South on SR83, turn right onto SR78.  Less than a mile West on SR78 on your right.


Rex