Your Favorite Roads

[mking]

I'd really enjoy hearing where everyone likes to ride. I'm in my first year of riding and trying to figure out some good routes. I really enjoy riding up in North Georgia, but it's a major time commitment to get up there, ride around, and come back. And I don't really enjoy riding on 285 and 75 and all that. I live in Vinings. A 2 or 3 hour route would be good for me.

I'll recommend a couple of roads, but I'm sure these are well known to people who've ridden a lot in Georgia:

SR 60 from Morganton to Suches - twisty and pretty - and has Two Wheels Only, a motorcycle hangout with pretty good burgers.

136 from Fairmout through Talking Rock to Dawsonville. Not as twisty as 60, but still very fun and extremely pretty. There's a nice place to pull over and enjoy the view near mile marker 16. (Highway 53 goes sort of parallel to 136. I rode both today and 136 is way better.)

It's very pretty up there now. The leaves are beautiful.

[carlosh]

I usually follow the guys that know all the roads, but generally they stop at T.W.O. for lunch. We're also ventured out to Helen. I don't know the road numbers though.

[wbeck257]

I have some local roads that I enjoy in the NW side of town...

Short loops near my house: Dabbs Bridge Rd, Green Ridge Rd, Lead Mnt Rd / Bates Rd, Paga Mine Rd... all in between Acworth, Cartersville/Emerson, Euharlee/Plant Bowen Area...

Longer loops in my area: Hwy 140 through Beasley Gap into Waleska, down 108, to 20, to Canton.. etc etc...

[captian]

+1 on areas west of Emerson. Lots of good roads on the other side of the lake. I'm in west Cobb.

[mking]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...5249&z=10&om=1

Here's a route I've done a few times from the Vinings area down to Newnan. It's mostly pleasant 2-lane roads. Newnan is actually a nice little town with a old city center, places to have lunch and nice old houses with sidewalked streets. I've enjoyed cruising around there before heading back. I go north on 16, then 5 and then take 166 east.

[mking]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...10498&z=9&om=1

Here's a nice mountain run from Vinings to Blue Ridge, GA. Everything on this rout from Fairmount to Blue Ridge is really great. I just wish I could find a route from Vinings to White, GA that doesn't put me on 75 and doesn't take all day.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...5249&z=10&om=1

This shows an alternate route I've taken to get north from Vinings without getting on 285 or 75. It's OK, but too many stoplights. I would LOVE to know a good motorcycle route from Atlanta up to the mountains.

[mking]

On saturday I headed east from Atlanta on 78 past Stone Mountain, Loganville, Monroe and Madison and I have to say that route sucked.

Can anyone recommend good roads for riding on the east side of town?

[carlosh]

Doesn't it flatten out?

[NorDog]

1) Mulholland Dr. from 101 to La Brea at around 10 PM on a weeknight.
2) Mulholland Hwy/Latigo Canyon Rd. from Topanga Canyon down to PCH (with a stop at the Rock Store).
3) Montana State Hwy 89; from Belt, MT to White Sulphur Springs, MT. NICE high speed sweepers.
4) Palomar Mtn, South Grade Rd. Twisty Heaven.

[mking]

Originally Posted by duccarlos

Doesn't it flatten out?

Yeah, I guess heading east toward Augusta it becomes mostly flat open areas with cotton fields - which isn't very exciting. And the road I took out there, 78, is just a bunch of traffic, stoplights and Hardees.

I wanted to stop in Madison, which is known for it's older homes and has a little town center with shops and stuff, but I was running short on time.

I'm still in search of a good 2 hour ride. Seems like the only good rides from Atlanta are 5 hours - up to the mountains.