Where do you Ride your Duc?

Yes and no!

I'm leaving here toward the end of September, but I'll be going back to Alaska for some months, then to Cali You make sure you hold it down though
 
pretty much the same in any direction. The maps do no depict the roads as they really are.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.822152,-80.322822&z=14&t=h&hl=en
 
reading this thread sucks, here in central MN we have curvy roads too it's just that my 848 does corner that well on GRAVEL. I'm starting to think I'll have to get a trailer just go bring my bike near any road with more than 8 curves in it. I've been spending hours on googlemaps etc. just looking for a few roads close enough to each other to make a round trip without just going back on the same road. It's hard when you get to the road you found and it's gravel. I can find a road with about a mile of some curves then it's straight for 10. If it wasn't for all the lakes in my area I don't think there'd be a curve anywhere.
 
on all these curvy mouth watering roads how much do you have to deal with the possible gravel/sand/rocks and tar snakes on the surface. I've lost some of my fave curves over the summer due to farmers entering the road from fields and getting mud or shit (literally, cow manure) right in the apex and that stuff is slippery. Or we can get a lot of the gravel from the shoulder of the roads drifting down in the curves.
Do you have scout the roads some or isn't it an issue on these?
 
Heres one of our areas good morning rides. About 50 miles in each direction. First part is fast sweepers, blind crests and quite quick. The second part is over the Banks Peninsular 'hill' to Akaroa. This is all hairpins and slow corners then it opens out again. The scenery is suburb and the coffee excellent at Akaroa

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Bletsoe+Ave,+Spreydon,+8024,+New+Zealand&daddr=teddington,+canterbury+to:Akaroa,+Canterbury,+New+Zealand&geocode=&hl=en&mra=ls&doflg=ptm&sll=-43.6822,172.78404&sspn=0.468765,1.234589&ie=UTF8&ll=-43.683764,172.783356&spn=0.468749,1.234589&t=h&z=10
 
yep, been a pretty big issue this year with all the storms. Some roads remain clean but we've had more gravel on the road this year than I remember in several past years.
 
Yea, I know what you mean. The Blue Ridge/southern app's are getting hammered with heavy downpours lately. Its common to ride up on 3-5 inch piles of mud,gravel and sticks.
 
Thats awesome, its cool to see where people ride that aren't even in the same country as I am... that looks like a pretty nasty road...
 
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