After a restless night, I got up at 6:30 to meet up with eight other local sport bike riders. We went up the west side of Lake Mead and then came back around to Las Vegas from the northwest side. It totaled nearly 200 miles and I was back in time for work at noon. Good times were had by all. It was a weird thing to have my bike at the rev limiter in top gear and have a GSX blow by me going at least another 15mph above that.
Update: Here’s a video from last year that someone posted of the same road.
The video is awesome, that looks like a lot of fun. It is cold as shit here, I washed my truck yesterday and the door was frozen shut when I came to work, definitely not motorcycle weather.
It was only 40deg when we took off that morning, but it’s improving everyday. Different day when the guys met a cop: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3661826420209628154&hl=en
“It was a weird thing to have my bike at the rev limiter in top gear and have a GSX blow by me going at least another 15mph above that.”
I hope you aren’t contemplating a trade already. Better to bump up against your motorcycle’s performance limit rather than your own.