Kicking off a series highlighting the best roads for motorcycling in Virginia, we take a trip on Route 56 starting in Steeles Tavern heading east Rt151 and then on to Amherst.
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@garrysmith9246Ай бұрын
Looks like great roads and countryside. Bike sounds really good. Thanks 👍
@easylytАй бұрын
Thanks for the video, Looks like a lovely road to ride and the bike sounds sweet..
@BigAl74-ww6wsАй бұрын
Hi there! RE Classic 350 and Honda Monkey 125 rider from the Czech Republic here. Thanks for another great video, Uncle Voodoo✌️
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Thanks for coming along for the ride! Im trying to highlight the rides that smaller displacement bikes are perfectly capable of doing, even though Im on a "bigger" bike now I still love me a little bike.
@blueridge_ogre171428 күн бұрын
For anyone interested in taking this run, please be careful when you get to the intersection of 151 and 29. Its a pretty dangerous intersection, a lot of wrecks and near hits happen there all the time due to visibility and speed ( there is a hill climbing towards intersection in the southbound lane). Police like to watch that area as well and will run radar near the church about 2 miles up 151 (speed limit bounces from 45 to 55 and back a few times). Also the Amherst corner to the left on this video at the intersection, is a great little family friendly diner for ice cream on a hot day. And to add, if you have a smaller cc bike and want to avoid 29, you can go down into Lowesville as mentioned but hang a left instead, it will bring you out past Amherst's 3 lakes and directly onto rte 60. Happy and safe riding to all.
@thomasdausch8557Ай бұрын
Great video sir , nicely done, I would be afraid YOGI and BOO BOO and BAMBI would jump out in front of me on those roads, thankyou for taking us along the ride , looking forward to the new series of videos ,, ride safe my friend
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Ive had to dodge all 3 of those over the years, at least on this trip it was only a squirrel I had to deal with!
@KrakensGarageandAdventuresАй бұрын
It sure looks like a magnificent road to ride. A great start to this series. 👏 Jobu making an appearance! 🙌😂
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
I'll try to let you know way in advance when I do Rt 211 / Skyline Drive so we can hook up. My plan at the moment is to ride up there on 11 and do 211 from New Market - Luray - Sperryville then camp near Front Royal on 340 and come down Skyline the next day.
@mrgrizzlyridesАй бұрын
Well, you sure put a lot of hard work into this video and it shows; with loads of nice little information touches and references. Of course the scenery was gorgeous and great riding roads. Thank you bud, really enjoyed that. Ride safe. Neil from England.
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Thank you very much!
@edwardkaminsky8142Ай бұрын
Perfect roads to ride. Enfield sounds smooth. Vegas- $401.9/10
@MostlyInterestingАй бұрын
Love the Filling Station! Lots of beer in the cooler and the taps. Food is pretty good also. I think I will end this ride at Loose Shoe Brewery which is right down the hill from there in the shopping center.
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
I couldn't film much inside the Filling Station just due to the number of customers in there, I'll actually be starting the next video there as well.
@daveanderson70Ай бұрын
I absolutely loved this. For a limey it’s always fascinating to visit the US with wide open spaces and strange laws. But to see somewhere new across the handle bars and learn a little about a place I associate with Laurel & Hardy (you know the song)makes for a something I will aspire to do! Keep ‘em rollin’!
@UncleVoodoo29 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm setting off today to film what will end up being the next 3 or 4 videos which hopefully are even better than this ride.
@stephenmundaneАй бұрын
👍👍
@pinkiewerewolfАй бұрын
Great run! The bike looks and sounds wonderful! As gorgeous as the scenery is, I was really drooling at the gas prices compared to California.
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Our gas prices are a little bit misleading, we have very low point of sales taxes but we get hit with behind the scenes fees and taxes that nullify the perceived lower prices. I have to pay additional registration penalty fees because my vehicles get good gas mileage for example. That Gertie's diner would've been another example, I'd pay sales tax on my food if Id've bought some... plus an additional tax if I consume the food on the premises. There's a lot of weird little things like that.
@pinkiewerewolfАй бұрын
@@UncleVoodoo Isn’t it something how taxes have gotten out of hand… again. That is quite a complex system of taxation.
@daveanderson70Ай бұрын
😂 you would faint at the gas prices here 🇬🇧 at $8.60 / gallon.
@pinkiewerewolfАй бұрын
@@daveanderson70 Totally ridiculous. Someone should do something about that.
@drdubb76Ай бұрын
That thing sounds good!
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Thanks! I love it.
@astro61362Ай бұрын
Cool tour. I would have liked to have seen lunch at Gertie's. The Filling Station stop was cool.
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
Weather pushed me ahead one day to film this, and it just happened to be a Monday- which they're closed on. Every time I've been past there when filming seems to always be on a Monday for some reason.
@FOOTPEGZАй бұрын
Megan and I came down this road after camping up on big levels and my exact reaction was “Well look at this A**hole “owning” a waterfall”😂 I would shower under that thing just because I could😂 But this is one CROOKED road for sure!
@UncleVoodooАй бұрын
I'm kind of surprised that guy doesn't rent that spot out for weddings and such, the landscaping is nicely manicured there too. Nice little property he's got. me > jealous.
@0HARE21 күн бұрын
I really enjoyed this great ride. It reminds me of my youth spent in N.C., exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smokey Mountains N.P. I’m itchin’ to get back up that way & hit some of those gravel roads. I have three trail capable bikes now: ‘06 KLR 650 modded, ‘21 Honda CRF300 Rally modded, and my new Triumph Scrambler 1200xe. I like how you’ve got your Continental dialed in. That exhaust sounds very sweet.
@UncleVoodoo21 күн бұрын
The "side quest" video has me exploring and even hitting some gravel. That segment turned out to be the most enjoyable part of the trip.
@AbdoAbdo-ym5enАй бұрын
Un tour à Alexandtria.
@LivingInSunCityWest25 күн бұрын
Uncle; enjoyed the video! You appear to use counter steering, am I right?
@UncleVoodoo25 күн бұрын
I suppose I do, it's not really something I think about or try to do. I guess Ive been doing it so long its instinctive now.
@tanker205121 күн бұрын
What’s the range on your RE?
@UncleVoodoo21 күн бұрын
I filled it up and ran it out of gas to see what the max range was and it went 200mi. So I generally say 150mi to err to the safe side.