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Did the Pashnit "Loneliest Road" tour this past weekend. This takes you along highway 50 in Nevada. Begin at Fallon NV, take highway 50, with stops in Ely, Eureka and Baker. There is even a little passbook where you can collect stamps from all of these waypoints and you will get a pin for riding lonely. Find out that the RS is all day comfort and can go really fast on a long straightway. Big open spaces, great roads, some twisties when you transition from basin to basin. Pass near Area 51 and Groom lake. See aliens.

Pics are here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/76437808@N...157698256410792

Nice photos.

That Yamaha has the face of an alien.

See any wild mustangs?

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Did the Pashnit "Loneliest Road" tour this past weekend. This takes you along highway 50 in Nevada. Begin at Fallon NV, take highway 50, with stops in Ely, Eureka and Baker. There is even a little passbook where you can collect stamps from all of these waypoints and you will get a pin for riding lonely. Find out that the RS is all day comfort and can go really fast on a long straightway. Big open spaces, great roads, some twisties when you transition from basin to basin. Pass near Area 51 and Groom lake. See aliens.

Pics are here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/76437808@N...157698256410792

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Nope, we got as close as Baker, but stayed on the Nevada side. If I had more time, I'd love to ride down to Zion and then over to Brice canyon. Haven't been there in ages.

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See any wild mustangs?

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Very beautiful pictures.
You have so many straight, long roads in the US and expensive fines

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Thanks for the pics Bill.
We were on the Extraterrestrial Highway in 2009 on our way home from California.
Lots of open space out there :)

Great photos of an amazing road that worth the ride.
Me and my wife did Hwy 50 five years ago. (got the diploma from the governor of Nevada). Not on bike, we had a rental Dodge Challenger RT and were going to Bonneville Salt flats to watch World of speed.
Discovered when we arrived to Wendover after 650 miles drive from San Fransisco that the flats was flooded and the competition was canceled....
But it was a fantastic trip and we enjoyed it.
Just came home from a new roadtrip that was aimed for Salt flats and Ely. Change of plan made us stay in Salt Lake city, so no Nevada on this trip.

My full respect to anyone riding that stretch of road on bike. It's HOT and having full gear must be tiresome. But I suppose you guys are used to the heat.
diploma.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

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Very beautiful pictures.
You have so many straight, long roads in the US and expensive fines

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Holger, if you ever ride in the US and get pulled over by a policeman, pull out all of your German ID. German driver's license, passport, whatever. Do not speak english, but respond to all questions with "yes sir" and "thank you sir." It will take about 30 seconds for him to decide that this is just not worth the paperwork and will leave you with a warning and go pull over some hot speeding blonde.

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I have crossed Nevada on Rt 50 by motorcycle twice. Great ride. Another great lonely ride is Rt 6 from Bishop (CA) to Wendover Nevada, near the Nevada/Utah border, just before the salt flats begin. Rt 6 crosses Rt 50 at Ely.

Rt 50 is indeed lonely, but I think the loneliest road I've been on is Rt 21 in Utah. It heads northwest from Beaver Utah and Intercepts Rt 50 right near the Nevada/Utah border, at the "town" of Border, or you can take the west fork and go through Baker. Rt 21 had fewer cars and less signs of civilization than any other highway I've found so far.

Incidentally, once you're traveling Rt 50, don't miss the chance to take it across Colorado. I did that in June of this year (for the second time), It is an awesome road. Very different from Nevada.