rt. 17

[wookie]

probably a repost, but good vid - rt. 17 and why not to be stupid there.

YouTube - Rte 17 VT on the DRZ400 SM

[Kham]

that's rt17? looks kind of straight. guess i didn't miss much.

[Dangerz0ne]

that guardrail is some dangerous shit.

[KB]

17 is ok. I've pulled 2 guys out of the bushes up there.

KB

[TIMMYDUCK]

that's rt17? looks kind of straight. guess i didn't miss much.

That is the much tamer side going east to west out of Waitsfield.

The real turns are on the far side of the overlook that he turned around in.

Rt 17 is best run west to east out of Bristol, Vt to the overlook.

[Uncle Snake]

17 is ok. I've pulled 2 guys out of the bushes up there.

KB

5 for me but I live up here......

[Crash Dummy Denno]

that's rt17? looks kind of straight. guess i didn't miss much.

yeah

That is the much tamer side going east to west out of Waitsfield.

The real turns are on the far side of the overlook that he turned around in.

Rt 17 is best run west to east out of Bristol, Vt to the overlook.

oh

[Doc]

That is the much tamer side going east to west out of Waitsfield.

The real turns are on the far side of the overlook that he turned around in.

Rt 17 is best run west to east out of Bristol, Vt to the overlook.

The east to west side is TAME.

[highsider]

The guy on that DRZ was a pussy.

[Kham]

That is the much tamer side going east to west out of Waitsfield.

The real turns are on the far side of the overlook that he turned around in.

Rt 17 is best run west to east out of Bristol, Vt to the overlook.

oh ok.

and people crashed on the straight side already. if they had made it on this side they probly won't make it on other side.

[Kham]

The guy on that DRZ was a pussy.

that's you isn't it? pussy.

[KB]

Kham stay home!!

KB

[Crash Dummy Denno]

The guy on that DRZ was a pussy.

that's what i was thinking!

[Kham]

Kham stay home!!

KB

hey i don't ride gixxer.

yeah i know. better to crash around home.

[Ken C]

The video doesn't do the road justice.

[RadHawk]

The guy on that DRZ was a pussy.

Big time... And what the hell is with the gearing problems... ? ?

Thanks for the link though.
rd

[markbvt]

The video doesn't do the road justice.

+1. The helmet cam makes the curves look a lot flatter than they really are. And others are right, that side of the Gap is easier than the west side -- and the place where those guys crashed is easier still.

Here's a Quicktime movie I shot on the App Gap a couple years ago. Sorry about the jerkiness -- camera was mounted to my handlebars, but the mount was kind of flexible. This was edited together from a few runs to minimize jerkiness, so wherever there's an edit, it picks up from the same place on the road. (Caution -- large file. About 100MB.)
http://www.armchaircommando.org/moto...-west2east.mov

--mark

[Kham]

+1. The helmet cam makes the curves look a lot flatter than they really are. And others are right, that side of the Gap is easier than the west side -- and the place where those guys crashed is easier still.

Here's a Quicktime movie I shot on the App Gap a couple years ago. Sorry about the jerkiness -- camera was mounted to my handlebars, but the mount was kind of flexible. This was edited together from a few runs to minimize jerkiness, so wherever there's an edit, it picks up from the same place on the road. (Caution -- large file. About 100MB.)
http://www.armchaircommando.org/moto...-west2east.mov

--mark

much better.

i counted 10 maybe 11 nice ones. i'll have to make it there next year.

[richw]

Timmy correct that's the pussy side

Its a 400 single top speed is like 92

I love my DRZ but I am glad that video got the SM notion out of my head

Yawn

[Ken C]

What bike are you riding? Lots of dragging parts.

+1. The helmet cam makes the curves look a lot flatter than they really are. And others are right, that side of the Gap is easier than the west side -- and the place where those guys crashed is easier still.

Here's a Quicktime movie I shot on the App Gap a couple years ago. Sorry about the jerkiness -- camera was mounted to my handlebars, but the mount was kind of flexible. This was edited together from a few runs to minimize jerkiness, so wherever there's an edit, it picks up from the same place on the road. (Caution -- large file. About 100MB.)
http://www.armchaircommando.org/moto...-west2east.mov

--mark

[nerijusj]

West side of rt 17 has all those tight corners. East side isn't bad either.

[jtaylor719]

Rt 17 is one of my favorite gap roads over there in VT.

On the way to the VT Brewer's Festival one year, I was on my ST2 and my girlfriend was on her new Monster 750. Last corner headed west, before it opens up, and she target fixated on the edge of the road. You know the rest.

My stomach fell when I watched in my mirror as she couldn't pull it back out of the soft shoulder. I watched as the bike swapped back and forth, spit her off, and then it was over.

I stopped and ran back to her, she made it out OK, and knew exactly what she did wrong. We rode back to Waitsfield, hit a carwash to get all the dirt off, and headed back up to Burlington.

She was a little sore the next day, but no problem other than that. She grew up showing horses, so she knows all about getting tossed. She's done several track days with BCM since, and I consider her a very good (and safe) rider. She's even considered racing at one point, if there was a class for women only. She scrapes the pegs on her Monster in T3 and the bowl though, need to get her on a Supersport first!

[markbvt]

What bike are you riding? Lots of dragging parts.

Triumph Bonneville. The midset footpegs touch down relatively early, but they fold up and nothing else has touched down yet... but the little metal nubs on the ends of the footpegs have big flat spots ground in them.

--mark

[Vix]

+1. The helmet cam makes the curves look a lot flatter than they really are. And others are right, that side of the Gap is easier than the west side -- and the place where those guys crashed is easier still.

Here's a Quicktime movie I shot on the App Gap a couple years ago. Sorry about the jerkiness -- camera was mounted to my handlebars, but the mount was kind of flexible. This was edited together from a few runs to minimize jerkiness, so wherever there's an edit, it picks up from the same place on the road. (Caution -- large file. About 100MB.)
http://www.armchaircommando.org/moto...-west2east.mov

--mark

I always went up the west side, love that ride. Thanks for the video, it'll get me through the winter.