Ready to ride and thz for all the input

 

If that map represents your planned route, and includes i-95 through New Jersey, into New York City, and then through Connecticut into Rhode Island and Mass. -- I suggest you find another way.

95 is -not- a motorcycle-friendly route to ride from Jersey, through NYC (particulary) and along the Connecticut coast. You aren't going to enjoy it...

 

 

I understand. we are coming back that way. not my choice. we are going to do Boston,NYC,and DC on the way back for the girls.
i tried to tell them it was not a good bike route.
we will get through it. but i thank you for the input.

 

Did it once roughly ten years ago. Still regret it to this day.
Crazy aggressive drivers along with very poor road conditions and construction made it a nightmare.

 

I wish you luck. You'll need it. If you've never been on 95 between Boston & NYC ------- you have NO idea ------- even almost everything 95 between Boston & DC.

 

Our roads SUCK up here. Get ready to **** blood.

 

3 of the worst cities to try to ride through on a bike, wish you luck you'll need it, people from outside the area can never appreciate how bad it is, be prepared to sit in traffic for hours...

 

What others have said here x2. You will never again let the girls pick your route. Good luck and be safe.

 

Lucky wrote:
[[ I understand. we are coming back that way. not my choice. we are going to do Boston,NYC,and DC on the way back for the girls.
i tried to tell them it was not a good bike route.
we will get through it. but i thank you for the input. ]]

Well, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's not only you who isn't going to like it -- they won't be liking it, either.

If it's NYC they want to see, you'd do better to come back on i-84, stay just outside of Brewster (book 2 nights, not one). In the morning, take Metro-North into Grand Central and get around from there. Then take MN back to Brewster that evening. Will be easier on the riders -and- on the bikes.

If you are absolutely positively headed to NYC, best to swing over to the Merritt Parkway just south of New Haven, and take that road towards the city.

One sees motorcycles on the New England Thruway between New Haven and New York VERY infrequently. There's a reason why this is so.

Read carefully what every other poster has written above.
And consider yourself as having been duly warned....