01-02-2007, 10:34 PM
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pureheart@pacbell.net wrote:
> qpliu wrote:
>> pureheart@pacbell.net wrote:
>>> Off topic: I'll bet anyone a zillion nothings that Santa Cruz County
>>> has the absolute
>>> worst roads in the entire country. Whew! ('Cept maybe Buffao, New
>>> York).
>> What makes you say that?
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>> (About 4500 miles for me in 2006, mostly in Santa Cruz County.)
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> First: Kudos to all you high-mileage guys, especially Ron Wallenfang
> who has ridden to the moon!
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> Santa Cruz roads? Well Larkin Valley Road from Aptos to Watsonville
> was a dreamy commute, great road quality.
> My current ride to Santa Cruz from Aptos is a series of road-shock
> minimizing maneuvers as I dodge all the myriad road repairs, poorly
> filled trenches, fiber-optic filled trenches, alligatored pavement,
> etc. Just visit Monterey sometime to see how nice their streets are.
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> I mentioned Buffalo, NY since that was the only place that the roads
> were so unavoidably bad--trying to get across to Canada--the my front
> panniers were actually flung from my machine.
>
> Pureheart
>
Main roads or what? I have ridden the highway 9 roads and offshoots to
Big Basin and find the roads OK up there, not that many holes so big you
can't dodge them, and not that much traffic, unless you only ride the
weekend, when the people who are sane enough not to try to go to Tahoe
every weekend with the rest of the motorized sheep.
The trees and scenery make up for any road problems, and I haven't seen
what you describe. Downtown Santa Cruz, Scott's Valley, or any of those
suddenly overbuilt, close to the Bay area, might be a different story.
Bill Baka
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