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winger · 10-06-2005

Anyone here ever been up there on a bike.

Chris

Bushwhacker · 10-06-2005

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On 2005-10-06 00:43, winger wrote:
Anyone here ever been up there on a bike.

Chris

June 2004. Rode a 5000 mile loop from Anchorage down to Baanf via the Cassiar and Yellowhead hwys, up to Dawson Creek, Alaska Highway to Fairbanks, Elliot and Dalton hwys up to Arctic Circle, then back along the Parks Hwy to Anchorage.

16 days on a thumper (KLR650). Good Ride.

This photo was taken between 10:30 and 11:00 pm

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Timian · 10-06-2005

Winger:
Arctic circle through Europe or Amerika?

ipg · 10-06-2005

Winger

Probably not quite the bit of Arctic Circle you had in mind from Bushwhacker there I think.

I'm looking at doing the same trip next year with a few of my mates so have been looking around at information, have a look at these web sites for some ideas, some great pictures. My trip idea came about from seeing a photograph of an amazing road on the web last year which turned out to be the Lysebotn road although from the info I've read, there seems to be a lot of roads equally good in Norway, Timian could perhaps confirm this or not.

http://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/c...erfecttour.htm

http://www.nordicbike.no/

Also have a look at this site.

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/

winger · 10-06-2005

My fault i should have said Europe!!,just mulling things over,Norway is out of the question,the speed limits ain't my idea of fun,haveing spent wednesday of last week till tuesday of this week in Helsinki,the option looks Sweden loop round round and down into Finland their not prolific speeders either,but at least they travel at a decent speed.

Chris

Timian · 10-06-2005

There are lots of gorgeous roads where 50mph is well in excess of what is sane.
If a holiday consists of banging up to the Arctic circle and back again, any route will do. The roads in Sweden tend to be utterly boring and the standard deteriorates dramatically when you get north of Stockholm. Speed limits are not exactly exciting and enforcement in Sweden is much stricter than it used to be.
For a unique experience of scenery, riding thrills, quietness and loooong days, Norway is the place.
Get a Michelin map, look for the roads marked in green. Stay away from main roads (E- something) and combine coast and mountain. It's quite a bit to go, so give yourself time. The cops are nowhere near as bad as reputed. They tend to stick to the main roads where the most accidents happen and the traffic is most dense. Sideroads are largely left alone.
I do approx 25.000 miles a year on bike, most of it in Norway, adjusting speed to road conditions and traffic. I'm no slouch, but no moron , either. The few tickets I 've had was when driving a car on the main roads. Never on bike!
Speed cameras don't photo bikes because driver can't be identified.
Believe me, if riding in Norway was boring, I'd never have a bike.
A Californian visiting put pen to paper:

http://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/citybike/nor98.html

Read the article and understand!!

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Tigertrax · 10-07-2005

It's a CIRCLE.... :hammer:

10-07-2005

Hi all

Brilliant, I'm thinking about riding to the Arctic Circle next year - Norway/Sweden....
Look forward to more postings with members experiences, suggestions etc.
Hay - Tiger ride out

Kind regards

Tim

winger · 10-07-2005

Hi Timian

Thanks for your posting,i'm a little old fashioned,or is that just old!!! but i'm a great believer in asking people face to face of the half a dozen people i've spoken to who have been to Norway bikeing(i've been sking)everyone has told the same story,great views, exspensive and a great country,but the speeding issue completely killed for e'm and their a mixed bunch i can tell you rangeing from the gungho merchants to guys i wouldn't dream of rideing with cuz their so dam slow.

All told me the same story,really enjoyed it,wouldn't go back just on the speed thing.

Timian · 10-07-2005

Hi Winger
I suppose we'll just have to suffer our way through the miserable life we're living here.......
I've always wanted to go too fast to see anything - pity I'm not allowed to here.
Funny thing is, though - when holidaying in, for instance, the Alps, I still keep speed low enough to actually see the countryside I'm travelling through.
As for asking the locals : We know the backroads, where the cops hang out, where you can scare yourself to death at 50 mph.....
Where to get a good meal or a decent stay, where to.....
Still, I suppose we're not worth lisdtening to - I mean, we only live here........
The Arctic Circle isn't all that great, anyway. I mean, you can't see it and it's bl.... cold up there.
Why not try a 160 mph blast down through Germany and join the German speed merchants in the Alps. I believe you'd get along nicely with them. I actually saw one of them having had so much fun he'd plastered himself on the front of a bus, coming round a blind corner.....
He was ver relaxed ... for very long.
Honestly, I think judging a country, a lifestyle and other qualities from it's speed limits seems a bit - shall we say - short sighted?? :???:

PS: News today reported Sweden is installing 1900 new speed cameras all over the country.........