PART 2......
 

CONTINUING UP THE ROAD TO GUNNISON CANYON,AND EAST TO SALIDA OVER THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AGAIN AND THE MONARCH PASS @ 11,300'..
 

ANOTHER PASS...MONARCH...ANOTHER GREAT RIDE! NOTHING HAIRY,  BETTER ASPHALT, NOTHING HAIRY, BUT MORE ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM AND THATS FUN TOO!!  :)

THEN NORTH  ON 285 TO JOHNSON VILLAGE AND NE OVER THE TROUT CREEK PASS @ 9400' TO FAIRPLAY !  NO PICS...
 


NEXT OVER THE HOOSIER PASS @11,600' ANOTHER GOOD ZOOM ZOOM!! LOTSA UP AND DOWN TODAY!! BIKES GETTING 65 MPG RUNNING THE MOUNTAINS. 


OK!! HERE I AM DOING THE MR TOURIST THING, ACTUALLY READING THESE SIGN THINGIES....SERIOUSLY..I AM ACTUALLY BANGING MY BUTT ON THE SIGN TO SEE IF I HAVE ANY FEELING LEFT IN IT!!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT THIS IS THE SECOND BIGGEST LAKE IN COLORADO!!  GUESS THEY ALL DRAIN AWAY  TO GET TO BIG, ALL THE BIG ONES ARE MANMADE RESERVOIRS..TOO FAR DOWN TO GO FOR A SWIM!!!!....SEE..I READ THE SIGN...
 

NEXT INTO BRECKENRIDGE AND SOME CHOW!! ..WOW..TONS OF SKI RUNS HERE, MORE $$$$ ALSO!!! NICE SHACKS ON THE HILLS...............
 

THEN BACK ONTO THE INTERSTATE AND EAST TO GEORGETOWN FOR THE NIGHT..ONE MORE ROAR UP THE GEORGETOWN HILL....7% GRADE..... TO THE TUNNEL AND DOWN THE OTHER SIDE..THIS WAS A GOOD RUSH!! 100MPH UP THE PASS FOR 10 MILES! SEEMS LIKE A GIANT RACE, EVERYONE GOING LIKE MAD...3 LANES WIDE  AND LOTSA ZOOM ZOOM ZOOOM!! HAD A BALL CATCHING THE HARLEYS, YOU COULD HEAR THEM FOR MILES..GUYS MUSTA BEEN TO THE BAG THE WHOLE WAY!  RAN 3RD AND 4 TH GEAR AT 9000RPM  FOR MILES!! FUN, AND EVEN BETTER GOING DOWN THE OTHER SIDE....THE RACE WAS ON AGAIN!
 

GEORGETOWN...AT THE EAST  END OF THE PASS..GREAT STOPOVER..OLD FASHIONED 1880'S VICTORIAN TOWN, BACK INTO THE TIME MACHINE HERE!!  GEORGETOWN INN IS GREAT, SUPER FOOD AT THE RED RAM.  GO THERE !!!!
 

HERES HOW WE FINISHED UP AT THE RED RAM!! 

DAY 9    THIS IS A GOOD ONE!! FORGET THE BEARTOOTH, GOING TO THE SUN ROAD, AND ALL THE REST OF EM..IF YOU WANT TO GO UP THIS IS THE ONE!!!

 UP AT 700AM  AND DOWN THE INTERSTATE TO THE MOUNT EVANS TURNOFF.......OH BOY..I LOOK WAY UP TO THE TOP OF THE HIGHEST PEAK AND  TELL CALE THATS WHERE WE ARE GOING..COURSE I HAVE NO IDEA..BUT I SOON AM TO BE RIGHT!!


 

       I CANT GET NO HIGHER ON MY BIKE THAN THIS!!! THE SIGN SAYS IT ALL!! 14,300 FEET UP AND 14 MILES TO GET THERE..THIS IS THE BEST $3  I EVER SPENT !!

THIS SHOULD BE GOOD..HOPE THE BIKES RUN UP THERE!!

YEP!!!  THIS IS LOOKING REALLLL GOOD!!!! ABSOLUTELY NO SHOULDER AND STRAIGHT DOWN!! YAHOOOOOOO!!



GETTING HIGH...ONE OF MY FAVORITE PICS!!  ABOVE MOST OF THE PEAKS IN COLORADO ALREADY AND  JUST GETTING TO THE STEEP STUFF..THEY SAID YOU CAN SEE 60% OF THE STATE FROM HERE.....I NOT LOOKING TOO MUCH JUST YET...KINDA CONCENTRATING ON RIDING AND SNAPPING PICS!!

2/3 WAY UP............YAHOOOOOO!! BUT NO ZOOM ZOOM.....
 

14 MILES  OF THIS TO THE TOP....FOR 3$ I GOT 28 MILES OF THE BEST THRILL RIDE OF MY LIFE!!

GRRRR..NEARLY WET PANTS ON THAT ROAD AND NOW CAN'T USE THE BATHROOM CAUSE THESE MOUNTAIN MOOSE THINGS  WONT LET US NEAR IT!!!!   SOME WOMAN  TRIED TO GO AND THEY RIPPED OFF HER ARM AND PUSHED HER OVER THE EDGE!!!  THEY CAN JUMP OVER 20 FEET AND THEY HAVE 11 INCH FANGS STICKING OUT OF THEIR HEADS!!!  WOW!!

 HAVE TO GO CLIMB IN THE ROCKS I GUESS!!
 


we made it!  best parter a guy could ask for...what a blast!  now its all downhill......all the way home...

THIS IS BETTER....ON THE OUTSIDE GOING DOWN!!!
 

THINK I BETTER PUT CAMERA DOWN NOW.......

THIS WAS COOL! NO RAILS AND STEEP MAKE FOR WAY MORE FUN!!LOVE IT!











                                                                                                                                      MORE MORE MORE!!

WHERES THE CENTERLINE ANYWAY???
JUST ANOTHER OF THE 150 CURVES!!! THOSE ARE OTHER 14000' MOUNTAINS OUT THERE! DOWN THERE!
 
 

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OK...BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND BACK TO  THE INTERSTATE AND WEST..EAST IS ONTO THE FLATS AND THATS NOOO GOOD..GUESS WHAT..THRU THE TUNNEL AGAIN!!!  ONLY THIS TIME WE COME TO A STOP ABOUT 2 MILES FROM THE TUNNEL..WE CAN SEE SMOKE , FIGURE MAYBE FOREST FIRE??  OF COURSE I GET TO THE SHOULDER AND HEAD UP TO THE FRONT..LOTSA BIKERS HERE ALREADY..THATS A DEFINATE ADVANTAGE OVER THE CARS ......SOON AS FIRETRUCK MOVED THE BIKERS TOOK OFF AND WE WERE ON THE GREAT DOWNHILL VAIL PASS BLAST AT 90 MPH FOR THE NEXT TEN MILES...GOOOOOOOD!!!!
GUESS WHATS BURNING???.. ONE LESS TO PASS!!!
 

BLAST OFF AGAIN DOWN THE ROAD(IN BACKGROUND ON THE HILL) TO WOLCOT AND NORTH ON131-134 OVER THE COLORADO RIVER AND UP THE GORE PASS @ 9600'

UP #40 TO MUDDY CREEK PASS @8800'..NO PICS.....CRAP!!!! THEY ARE GETTING SMALLER AND WE ARE HEADING AWAY FROM THE BIG STUFF!
ANOTHER DECISION..DO WE HEAD BACK NW TO YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY AND UP INTO IDAHO, OR NW AND CHECK OUT THE MADMEN AT STURGIS......IM FOR MORE MOUNTAINS, BUT THE KID WANT S TO SEE THE "HEADS"..SO ITS NE WE GO!!
 


THE KID IS TAKING IT HARD LEAVING THE MOUNTAINS!!   EITHER HES CRYING OR CHECKING HIS TIRES!

DINNER IN LARAMIE AND  ONE LAST MOUNTAIN TO CROSS, WILL GO THRU OUR LAST PASS, MORTENS PASS AT 7600' AND DROP DOWN TO THE FLATS IN WYOMING  TO A MOTEL IN WHEATLAND.

DAY 10, UP EARLY AND HEAD  STRAIGHT FOR THE BLACK HILLS ON  THE 2 LANE.....START MEETING  THE BIKERS HEADING SOUTH. PRETTY SOON A SOLID LINE OF MOTORHOMES, CAMPERS, AND BIKES!! PROBLY 2/3 OF THE BIKES ARE ON TRAILERS, AND WHILE AT FIRST KINDA SNICKERING BOUT NOT RIDING THEM THERE, I NOW GOT IT FIGURED WHY MOST DONT RIDE. THE BADLANDS, AND THE PRAIRIE GETTING HERE JUST PLAIN SUCK, AND  WHO WANTS TO CAMP IN A TENT AT 100 ABOVE FOR A WEEK ANYMORE!!

 BESIDES..I AM JEALOUS!!! I WANT THE HARLEYS, I WANT THE MOTORHOME, AND I WANT THE THE CASH TO FILL THE GAS TANK!!!

ENTERING THE  BLACK HILLS. THATS THE CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL  JUST TO THE RIGHT..ITS A LONG WAY OFF, BUT LOOKS  GOOD CLOSER UP!

                                                    IN HOG HEAVEN AS THEY SAY!
 

HOWS THAT FOR PIPES!!!!  I'M STILL DEAF!!!! 

HOWS  THIS FOR A BIG HOG..A VIPER 500 CUBIC INCH V10!!!  I WANNA DRIVE IT! DONT CARE IF IT TURNS!!!


THIS WOULD BE THE WORLDS LARGEST BIKER BAR!!! SO THEY CLAIM, AND I BELIEVE!! YOU HAD TO SEE THE PARKING LOT!!!!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ IN THERE!!
 

AMAZING!!  THATS WHY I LOVE THE STATES!! WHERE ELSE WOULD THEY TELL YOU TO  OPEN HER UP!! SEEMS EVERYONE OBEYED....WOW..WHAT A RACKET!!!

HARD NOT TO GET IN THE HOG MOOD...TRIED IT FOR A FEW MILES.......SOMETHING MISSING THOUGH!

BACK TO THE FLATS HEADING NORTH FROM STURGIS....UP FROM STURGIS TO BISMARK FOR THE NIGHT......NEXT MORNING UP AT 9 AND HOME BY 3 PM..ABOUT A 10 HR RIDE FROM STURGIS..CRUISED AROUND 90 MPH MOST OF SOUTH DAKOTA  AS ONLY WAY TO STAY AWAKE!!

THE   HONDA'S WORKED GREAT, GOT 50-65 MPG,  HANDLED  GREAT IN THE CURVES, ENDED UP WITH 7200 KM'S, (AROUND 4500 MILES) AND A GREAT RIDE!!  THIS MAKES THIRD TRIP WITH THE OLD BOMBS!! NEXT YEAR OFF TO OREGON, WASHINGTON, AND BC! AND ALL THEIR  MOUNTAIN ROADS!! OR MAYBE COLORADO!!!!

NOW IF I CAN GET MY BUDDIES TO GET BIKES AND GET ON  THIS TRIP  I SWEAR THEY WILL THANK ME FOREVER!!!  YOU GUYS READ THIS???  DO IT BEFORE YOU HAVE THE HEART ATTACKS, GO BLIND, DIE!!  OK?? HEEEHEEE :)


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