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Memphis | After much wailing and gnashing, I finally got one of my vacation videos to upload. This is raw footage and keep in mind that I'm holding the camera in my left hand while trying to keep up with VisionTex (including shifting) using only my throttle hand. He is taking it easy on me so I can keep up in the turns. I have more clips with Smadge and radioteacher running with us and will try to get them online asap. (It looks a lot better on Firefox compared to Internet Explorer. IE doesn't show the HQ button.) Hope you enjoy this rare glimpse of the most beautiful spot in West Texas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFf5zdqWDI |
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Under the Rule of Jedi - Masshole | Like I was there! Thanks!
HD works with Safari to for you Mac fans! |
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Hartland, , WI | Cool Beans! Great scenery....thanks for the vid.
P.S.....is that your hair I can hear flapping in the wind  |
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San Antonio, TX | Great video. I have never been out there but I have to go now!
The HD button on the Video take a while to show up after it is uploaded. |
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Kansas City, Ks | Where exactly in West Texas is this.. ?
Nice video by the way..
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Memphis | Basically on the Mexican border way south of El Paso and north of Del Rio. It's not on the way to anywhere so you have to kill a couple of days just to get there. It's like going to Canyon De Chelly in Arizona. Out of the way but unforgettable. |
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | I want to ride that road. Since that's unlikely, I put the video on our frontpage. |
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Cumming, GA | Songfan, you need to come to the SE meet in Helen, GA the first of June. We can show you some great scenery in the N. GA mountains. |
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Memphis | Thanks visionbob. My wife and I did a getaway a couple of years ago and rented a cabin outside of Blue Ridge, GA for a week. We spent the entire week tracking down waterfalls in north Georgia and the western tip of North Carolina. (Toccoa Falls College was very cool.) Also visited Tallulah Gorge. Beautiful country only about 8 hours away. I'll be back.
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LaPorte,Tx. | Blue Demon - 2009-05-13 9:08 PM
Where exactly in West Texas is this.. ?
Nice video by the way..
This video was shot on Basin Dr. inside Big Bend National Park on the way up to the lodge, campgroud area. This is a steady climb of a couple thousand feet. The morning we went up there was warm and once up on top was ~ 10 degrees cooler in the mid 70's. Coming back down from the basin, I had the instantanious MPG on the dash monitor and it didn't go below 99 mpg all the way ~ 15 miles. When we got down to the Rio Grande and started riding along it, the temperature was 104 in that area. Big Bend is a great place to ride in the spring. If you get the chance, I recommend. Watch out for the Rattlers, saw a dead one on the road. I stopped to look at him, they are still scary even dead.  |
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Hot Springs Village, Arkansas | Very good video and one handed riding, you probably could have said the only beautiful spot in west Texas (within several hundred miles anyway). That would be a great spring trip, I'm about to drown in Arkansas! |
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Memphis | Thanks Big Al, You are so right about the springtime weather. I don't do summer vacations anymore because I always head for a National or State Park to enjoy and don't want to fight the masses. I block the last 10 days of April and the first 10 days of October every year and pick my spots carefully. If I were to do that Big Bend ride this month or later it would easily push 100 degrees consistently. I grew up in the Arizona desert so I know when the wildfowers and cacti are blooming and the temps are mild. My 9 days in Texas averaged 84 for the highs (10 percent humidity) and 62 for the lows. Absolute perfection. VisionTex and I are already thinking about what to do next year and we might go northeast towards New England or follow the Mississippi River all the way to the headwaters in Minnesota. Of course, once we got up there we'd have to stop by Wyoming (the town in MN), Medina and Spirit Lake, Iowa. We'll see.
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Under the Rule of Jedi - Masshole | SongFan - 2009-05-14 3:29 PM
Thanks Big Al, YSNIP--->>> VisionTex and I are already thinking about what to do next year and we might go northeast towards New England
Come on up! I'll show you some nice riding around here. |
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Memphis | VisionTex "Coming back down from the basin, I had the instantanious MPG on the dash monitor and it didn't go below 99 mpg all the way ~ 15 miles." We stayed in Alpine at an altitude of 4400' for three nights and toured far West Texas from there. We were between 4000-6600' for the three days and my Stage 1/Level 1 average was 51.6mpg over that time. As I headed back to Memphis and the altitude dropped back to sea level (350') my mileage dropped to 42mpg. The Vision loves thin air. |
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Western WA | Very nice video.
Guess I'm going to have to put Big Bend on my 'to do' list.
Thanks for sharing. |
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, FL United States | nice ride. |
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Houston, Texas | SongFan - 2009-05-14 2:58 PM
VisionTex "Coming back down from the basin, I had the instantanious MPG on the dash monitor and it didn't go below 99 mpg all the way ~ 15 miles." We stayed in Alpine at an altitude of 4400' for three nights and toured far West Texas from there. We were between 4000-6600' for the three days and my Stage 1/Level 1 average was 51.6mpg over that time. As I headed back to Memphis and the altitude dropped back to sea level (350') my mileage dropped to 42mpg. The Vision loves thin air.
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I was in the Big Bend the week of April 20.....have the "ATOM BOMBS" on the STARSHIP with the S1 map .... have occasional decel pop at sea level.
The week I was in the 'BEND' at altitude; no pop and ran fantastic....it does like thin air.
Edited by STARSHIP 1 2009-05-15 9:35 AM
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