USA Northeast » Beautiful weather, very few bikes on the road......

Anecdotal observations are always questionable, but today was similar to many this past summer. While we did have a stretch of stinking hot weather this summer, the weekends prior and after that period seemed to have minimal MC traffic in my area. In today's loop, I did 240-miles in glorious weather and didn't see much traffic beyond commercial trucks on the interstate.

That was just the last 40-miles to get home by 5P and avoid deer on the smaller roads. The bulk of the ride was thru the depopulated parts of northern Pennsylvania.

I went out for a 90 mile run yesterday morning in central Maryland. It was very nice. On one back road I use a lot I saw probably 30 deer milling around in a field. Fortunately, they stayed there.

Zitat von Davidnapo im Beitrag #4

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I went out for a 90 mile run yesterday morning in central Maryland. It was very nice. On one back road I use a lot I saw probably 30 deer milling around in a field. Fortunately, they stayed there.

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Since yesterday's ride offended some for including a stretch of Interstate, today's shorter ride was thru Amish farm areas and traversing the ridges between the valleys. Warmer and more humid than the prior day, it was decent weather and, again, very few MCs. Especially, on roads that are noted as good riding.

However, one helmetless cruiser rider with helmetless passenger was notable for being in my lane on one of the curves. Being a somewhat common occurrence, I'm never surprised when I read MC accident statistics that highlight failure to negotiate turns as the most common cause of rider fatalities.

While I generally loath interstate miles, I too suck them up to get out of the city. As unenjoyable as they are, it's way better than the infinite line of stop lights on all other routes.

That said, I haven't been riding much - so I'm part of those stats. Summer was way busy and hot. and even just slightly south of you (northern VA) it's been high 80s/low 90's and miserably humid. I hope to get my RS4's mounted this month ahead of a weekend jaunt with the boys later this month. If it's still hot/humid, I'll get to test out my new cooling vest.

Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #7

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While I generally loath interstate miles, I too suck them up to get out of the city. As unenjoyable as they are, it's way better than the infinite line of stop lights on all other routes.

That said, I haven't been riding much - so I'm part of those stats. Summer was way busy and hot. and even just slightly south of you (northern VA) it's been high 80s/low 90's and miserably humid. I hope to get my RS4's mounted this month ahead of a weekend jaunt with the boys later this month. If it's still hot/humid, I'll get to test out my new cooling vest.

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