Why does everyone hate the interstates?
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From: Coastal Carolina
I've done all of those and Connecticut was the worst. One town after another. The whole state is traffic.
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Joined: Jan 2013
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From: Wisconsin
My wife's favorite ride is 2up on '81 honda 200. WOT 2up is 45. We ride the curves throughout the forest preserve and it is fun. But sometimes I need to get a little further from home, on a schedule, I'll look for an interstate. You're not up close to the locals, the site lines are 3 times further but the speeds can be 3 times faster.
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
My bitch with the super slabs is they are make your brain bleed boring , they where designed & deliberately routed through the most boring straight stretches of this country far from anything worth seeing particularly out west here . I'm on a secondary in a heartbeat if I can and the old state 2 lanes are poetry to ride . You guys with the new living rooms on wheels can have the slabs those boats belong there .
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From: Milton, Delaware
Where I live, if you don't use an interstate to get out of town you'll spend half the day on surface roads. I don't mind interstates as in some respect they're a little safer. No crossroads, intersections, driveways, etc.
Last year I rode out to the Harley plant in York, Pa with a buddy. We 'slabbed it' just to get there. We checked in at the hotel and then spent the afternoon wandering around and visiting Gettysburg battleground. Got back to the hotel about 9 pm. The next morning we did the Steel Toe Tour, had lunch and 'slabbed it' home. I pulled in the driveway at 5:30 pm. Back roads would have been great, but we couldn't have done the trip in 2 days that way.
If I'm out for a day ride I'll take an interstate to get out of town, then hop off onto back roads. A couple of years ago 4 of us headed to the Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Pkwy. We only had 3 days to make the trip so if we had used all back roads we never could have done it. So, we took 78 to 81 and just blasted south all day the first day. Stayed overnight and wandered north again.
Last year I rode out to the Harley plant in York, Pa with a buddy. We 'slabbed it' just to get there. We checked in at the hotel and then spent the afternoon wandering around and visiting Gettysburg battleground. Got back to the hotel about 9 pm. The next morning we did the Steel Toe Tour, had lunch and 'slabbed it' home. I pulled in the driveway at 5:30 pm. Back roads would have been great, but we couldn't have done the trip in 2 days that way.
If I'm out for a day ride I'll take an interstate to get out of town, then hop off onto back roads. A couple of years ago 4 of us headed to the Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Pkwy. We only had 3 days to make the trip so if we had used all back roads we never could have done it. So, we took 78 to 81 and just blasted south all day the first day. Stayed overnight and wandered north again.
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From: Dayton
Around here, the interstates are a death trap for a motorcycle. 70mph on these shitty roads is not safe at all on two wheels.
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From: Lexington,Tn
Oklahoma--ride twenty miles throw a quarter in a basket ball net ride ten miles --toss another quarter miss the basketball net get your picture taken more tolls per mile than any rural state should have