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DinerGlide

📅 преди 7 д 👁 1 👍 1

Walking the Last Mile to the Chloride Murals

Solo Ride Night Ride Desert Autumn Golden Hour +3

Twenty miles north of Kingman, 93 is all business. Four lanes, trucks running for Vegas, and on a Saturday a steady line of pickups with boat trailers and out-of-state plates headed for the casinos. Nobody on that road is looking at the hills. I wasn't either, the first dozen times.The turn for Chloride comes up on the right with almost no warning, and four miles of county road later you are in a town that has decided, as far as I can tell, to keep its own hours. A couple hundred people, maybe. Dogs that come out to look at you and then go back to the shade. Old mining iron in the front yards, painted up or left to rust, depending on who lives there. It was a silver town once. It still looks like it is waiting to hear whether the price is coming back.What I came for is about a mile and a h...

DinerGlide

📅 преди 27 д 👁 2

Crozier Canyon on the First Cool Evening

Solo Ride Desert Sunset Route 66 Autumn +2

The heat does not end on a date out here. It stops meeting you at the door one evening, and in town you do not notice it at all. You notice it about twenty miles east, when it dawns on you that you have quit leaning away from your own engine.I ran out 66 toward Valentine with a little under two hours of light left. That road empties out fast once the last of the Valle Vista houses are behind you, and by Hackberry the only traffic is whatever freight is moving on the tracks. The trains out there run close enough to the pavement that you feel the second one coming before you hear it. I have ridden that same stretch in July with the air coming off the asphalt like somebody left an oven door open. This time the vents were doing nothing for me at all, and I ended up zipping the jacket back up a...

DinerGlide

📅 преди 1 мес 👁 8 👍 1

Two From Chicago and an Empty Tank on Gold Road

Solo Ride Desert Switchbacks Sunset Hot Weather +5

There is a stretch of the old road west of Kingman that most people drive once, take a photograph of, and never come back to. It runs out past Cool Springs and then starts climbing into the Black Mountains toward Sitgreaves Pass, and by the time you are up in the switchbacks there is no shoulder worth the name and a drop off the right side that puts rental cars down to fifteen miles an hour and keeps them there. I ride it a couple times a month, always late in the day, once the heat has let go and the light starts coming in sideways across the rock.Thursday I went out around six with no plan past Oatman and back. Stopped at Cool Springs the way I always do, that rebuilt station with the stone pillars where the tour vans line up at noon and nobody at all stops at supper time. Sat there a wh...

CherryRoad

📅 преди 3 мес 👁 2

Sunset run down I-30

City Sunset Bagger Freedom

Took the CVO out tonight right as the sun started dropping behind the skyline, that cherry red paint catching every bit of light on the way down. Rolled out of Dallas on I-30 with the windows downtown lighting up in the mirrors.Pulled off at a gas station out past Grand Prairie just to hear the 117 idle in the quiet. Some guy in a pickup rolled his window down just to say the paint looked like it belonged on a fire truck. Told him fire trucks wish they looked this good.Rode back into town with the skyline lit up full orange, engine loud enough I didn't need the radio. Texas nights were made for rides like this.