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Offline stevegrab

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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #30 on: June 22, 2021, 01:07:56 pm »
Steve,  The best Ice Cream shop was at the resort in the snack shop.  BlackBerry was awesome.  And so were the other flavors that we had while there.  Yep, we got addicted to that ice cream, almost every day.
Yes Carl I heard that ice cream was good, but its while I'm out riding in the heat and need a break that ice cream is the best treat. We stopped for some at Big Walker Mtn Lookout that was pretty good. Then on the final day home I had 3 possible stops on the same highway in the last 1.5 hours, one of the best just 30min from home is called Just Ice Cream.

At LaCrosse we found a neat place on highway 35 in Stoddard called Hood Scoops Ice Cream Shop. We passed it on our ride into town for STAR, then went by another day and had to stop. One of our NE Ohio riders can sniff them out, I usually need the GPS to help or an obvious spot on the main road. I'd love to go to my GPS, and have it show just places with ice cream, instead I search for ALL FOOD then scroll thru looking for names that indicate ice cream.
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #31 on: June 22, 2021, 06:27:03 pm »
Another hidden gem I'd never find, unless it was in my GPS. I know some love those tiny roads, but my short height makes any narrow/gravel road a major tip-over risk so I doubt I'd even venture up that kind of road unless I knew there was something I needed there.
The road I'm talking about is perfectly paved, about 1-1/2 standard lanes wide, had no painted lines on it when I was last there, I've never seen any other traffic on it, and smooth and flat.

I think it's Jerico Rd.

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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2021, 03:14:23 pm »
Another hidden gem I'd never find, unless it was in my GPS. I know some love those tiny roads, but my short height makes any narrow/gravel road a major tip-over risk so I doubt I'd even venture up that kind of road unless I knew there was something I needed there.
The road I'm talking about is perfectly paved, about 1-1/2 standard lanes wide, had no painted lines on it when I was last there, I've never seen any other traffic on it, and smooth and flat.

I think it's Jerico Rd.
Thanks for the details, I believe that was the road name when I looked at the map.

Sorry if it sounded like I was complaining, I just don't enjoy the narrow roads with no lines, there may be very little traffic, but when there is they're usually in the middle of the road, going quite fast and don't always yield any portion of the road to me. I was following my brother on some of those and that made it easier, and I could hear him beeping his horn going around some of the more blind corners. We traveled Smoke Hole road without much traffic, then near the end there was quite a bit more and a few times they were quite close to me.

Even at home I'll ride mostly state highways, and some county roads that I know are well maintained and have good lane markings.
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #33 on: July 07, 2021, 01:00:42 pm »
I just read an article about the Blackwater 100, that was held at Davis, WV in 1975 to 1993.  See attached article.  And I thought riding some of the narrow roads was bad.  Nothing like this event.
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #34 on: July 07, 2021, 01:17:35 pm »
I saw that Canaan Valley hosted something called Windfest (kite flying event) and also hosted the world record longest slip-n-slide both in the few weeks since we were there.

https://www.wdtv.com/2021/07/04/canaan-valley-resort-hosts-windfest-weekend/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amberlovebond/2021/07/05/natty-light-brings-worlds-longest-slip-n-slide-record-back-to-america/
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #35 on: July 07, 2021, 02:41:56 pm »
I saw the slip-n-slide on the news about the new record.  I looked close to see if Steve was in the photos, but did not see you.  Guess they missed taking a photo of you.  Maybe next time.
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #36 on: July 07, 2021, 02:42:35 pm »
I just read an article about the Blackwater 100, that was held at Davis, WV in 1975 to 1993.  See attached article.  And I thought riding some of the narrow roads was bad.  Nothing like this event.

I've heard of the Blackwater 100 but didn't know the history. Thanks for posting that info.
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Re: STAR 2021!
« Reply #37 on: July 07, 2021, 07:26:45 pm »
I just read an article about the Blackwater 100, that was held at Davis, WV in 1975 to 1993.  See attached article.  And I thought riding some of the narrow roads was bad.  Nothing like this event.
Tom was telling me about doing that back in the day - no way :( I think he said he managed 1 of the 3 required laps or something it was crazy.
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