A 150 mile ride from MotoMarket thru Central Mass.

[platypus]

I did this ride today with a friend - took about 4.5 hrs including a 40 minute stop for lunch and gas up in Barre - 150 miles round trip. IMHO, this is a good ride roundtrip from MotoMarket - lots of lakes, rivers and ponds, sweeping curves, hills, views, etc. Stop at Barre for lunch - a Ducati can make it that far on one full tank from the start. If you leave at 10:00 you'll be back at MM before 3:00 PM, just in time for a winddown coffee.

I have the Garmin GPS route for this if anyone wants to try it (email me, I can't seem to attach it here). Hopefully this link will also work.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...,1.645203&z=10

An alternative is to take Route 2/495 back to MM instead of going through Fitchburgh and back through 2A.

Hope someone finds this useful and enjoys the ride.

Platypus

[black]

wow thanks for the link..
Need to take the gf out and honestly being in New england for 5 years I have no knowledge of local roads to boston

thanks

[Wishbone]

Nice. Thanks for the route. Browsing on my Droid and this map loaded on perfectly

[The Snowman]

202 south, always a good run, unless you meet a lot of cages. We did a few miles of it this past Saturday.

[scubasteveRR]

Nice, looks like you picked a few of my favorite roads around the Bloton, Harvard and Clinton area. I'm going to have to follow your map and ride the rest of it out West.

P.S. there are a couple roads that run parrelell to the main roads from Harvard - Bolton that are a little more curvier I can show you sometime, you will like very much, yes!

[DuncanMoto]

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Cool. I will definitly try this one.

[FirstDuc-1098]

platypus, were you still at MM at 10:15? If so, you saw me on my red 1098S.

[platypus]

Yes I did see your bike there then. I'm on a black Bandit 1250s and Joe is on a yellow 1098.

[FirstDuc-1098]

ah, sitting right by the door

[Monsterfish]

Great route. I will try this one for sure.

[typeone]

good loop. if anyone wants to add a little more to it, hit Prescott Rd into Shutesbury then bend a right on to and through Wendell/Lockes Village/Depot. some sweet stuff out there and its easy to loop right back onto 202.

EDIT: forgot to add... careful on New Westminster, i've been nabbed out there twice. easy to wick it up on that nice new pavement and open sweepers 62 into Barre is all new pavement too, gonna be a trap this season for sure.

[Mike Qube]

Thanks for posting this. I'm going to do it this coming Saturday if anyone would like to join me.

[MonsterM636]

I have heard about this Quabbin loop from a friend and had no idea ,but totally doing this soon ,is any one is doing this on a Sunday plz let me know ( FirstDuc-1098 ,DuncanMoto ,scubasteveRR .Monsterfish ,Wishboneor any of you Crazy but cool Folks )
,but his Sunday have the Open Season Ride .

[keeena]

On your map halfway between Belchertown and Ware there are a couple great Quabbin reservoir lookout points (one of them shared with a State Police barracks FYI). You'll see some state park entrances along that stretch of road, pretty easy to find. Great place for a pit stop to stretch.