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Question: What makes a road GREAT to you?
No other traffic--you have the road to yourself.
Traffic doesn't really matter to me.
Smooth, clean pavement w/o potholes, tar snakes or patches.
Pavement quality doesn't matter to me.
Tight, technical, 1st-2nd gear twisties.
More open 3rd-4th gear twisties and sweepers.
Roller coaster terrain (lots of ups and downs).
Level terrain (curves, but all flat).
Wide 2-lane roads (e.g. state highways).
Road width doesn't really matter to me.
Beautiful rural or wild scenery (e.g. farms, mountains, rivers, rolling meadows, etc.)
Scenery doesn't matter much, it's all a blur anyway.
Unfamiliarity (I like riding new roads I don't know).
Familiarity (I like roads I've ridden a lot and know well).
Roads with lots of good stopping places (for photos, gas, food, attractions, whatever).
Roads that are remote (just endless miles of nothing).
Other (tell us below!).

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« Reply #60 on: September 21, 2007, 10:39:45 pm »

To me the difference between a good road and a great road has everything to do with sight lines. You can only have so much fun on a road if you cannot see through a turn. You either go in slow enough to react to what you cannot see, or you go in hot and worry about what may happen. There is nothing better than a nice twisty road with a good surface that you can really rail through without undue risk or anxiety.
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« Reply #61 on: September 22, 2007, 01:06:26 am »

Diversity... I like a road that is full of suprises. Not bad suprises like gravel or farm tractors, just lots of different radius curves, hills, bridges, and pavement types. And I like 'em fast... at least 80mph and up.

Fortunately, there's a lot of roads like that around here!  Bigok
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« Reply #62 on: October 04, 2007, 04:31:52 pm »

Twisty scenic roads with no cruisers, RVs and local tax collectors.Don`t care about sweepers,gotta go well over a 100pmh in order to have a fun on those.

Well,it looks like remote mountain road fits my definition.
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