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Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: Roadstergal on June 26, 2005, 10:39:37 PM
I'm getting my writeups together, finally. :p

http://www.roadstergal.info/6_26_05/

(http://www.roadstergal.info/6_26_05/626.jpg)
Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: Kerry on June 26, 2005, 11:41:53 PM
Great photos and write-up!  :thumb:

You can sure take a lot of pictures when you ride shotgun, eh?  :)

If you haven't seen it, a nice motorcycle-based companion article to your page is "The Monster: Riding the Other Side of Mount St. Helens" -- on page 48 of the July 2005 issue of rider magazine.
Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: john on June 27, 2005, 06:21:45 AM
I'm not knocking you in any way, but for me cars offer no excitement since I started riding sportbikes.

...but I'd love to drive a car with a rotary engine just once to see what it's like.  Wankle proved he was right :thumb: Doesn't GM feel stupid now...
Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: Roadstergal on June 27, 2005, 09:32:23 AM
Ja, I did sell the cars, and I find the bike track days to be far more exhilirating than the car days.  But St. Helens - well, it's all twists, all the time, barely a straight to be seen - every twist you can think of, from hairpins to decreasing radii to corkscrews to switchbacks - and a well-set-up Miata can just plain take it faster than a well-set-up bike.  We've overtaken sportbike groups when we've gone up there in the past.  I don't miss my Miata enough to actually have kept it, but I did wish it could spontaneously appear for that one drive and then disappear again. ;)
Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: davipu on June 27, 2005, 09:57:31 AM
it's all in the rider.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=7057BBB0-02B8-415E-9C54-EBB656FC0294&kw=25
Title: This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.
Post by: RVertigo on June 27, 2005, 11:45:13 AM
Quote from: davipuit's all in the rider.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=7057BBB0-02B8-415E-9C54-EBB656FC0294&kw=25
:o Pretty damn close...
10x less $$...  I think it's an easy choice.  ;)