Beartooth Highway Part 1

[Fairlaner]

https://vimeo.com/69511953

 

[someguy]

epic ride.... thanks for sharing.

it's on my FJR bucket list...

 

[bgross]

Beautiful! No traffic?! What a ride.

 

[RaYzerman19]

Kewl, Richard. Brings back memories of 2007 for me. Hopefully I can make it back there again next year.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Wow...very nice.

 

[Mihalis fjr]

Very nice video!

Thanks!

 

[NightShine]

I rode this two-up with my son Sean a few years back, and accompanied by Dr. Rich. Later that evening I overheard my son on a phone call to his girlfriend saying we'd been on a road that day with "a ridiculous number of turns in it".

Fond memories...

 

[lonerider]

Nice, that one's definitely on my bucket list.

 

[Abercrombie FJR]

I will be there Monday! The wife and I have a condo in Red Lodge rented for the week. The wife insists on trailering her bike out there rather than riding so I’m going to insist on bringing all three of my bikes in the four place trailer. It will be a week of dreams riding Beartooth and all the other area roads on the FJR, Tenere, and Ducati all in one week.

Yeehaa! Thanks for wetting my appetite Richard.

 

[Spud]

I'll be there Saturday and back over Sunday....spending the night in Red Lodge

 

[rogdeb]

..... yes !!

 

[Fairlaner]

More to come soon......

R

 

[Fred W]

Richard,

The only thing keeping that video from being just another "lame ass video" is the ultra-incredible scenery, nice big open sight line turns with near impeccable road conditions, and that I happen to share your taste in music. You suck for showing me that. I am so dying to do that road myself.

Subscribed to this thread for the second (and future) installments

(I figure you have to come back down the other side, eventually)

As a complete aside, for those not familiar with New England "mountain" (some would say molehill) riding, that stretch climbing the Beartooth reminds me vaguely of the Kangamagus Highway in New Hampshire, but it (the BT) is much, much longer, much much higher (Bono: Get me higher! Even better than the real thing), and the road condition is much, much better. I'm fully bought in to it being rated the "Best Motorcycle Road in the US."

 

[RossKean]

I tried to do the Beartooth three years ago at about this time of year. At the beginning of the highway, just out of the northeast entrance to Yellowstone, the road was closed due to snow and freezing rain the night before. I have a picture taken at a highway rest stop a couple of miles before the barricade with 4" of fresh snow on the ground! Hope to get back there to try again pretty soon. (I did manage a nice but cool ride on the Chief Joseph - reasonable consolation prize). Looking forward to Part II.

 

[Auburn]

Very nice. Will get my first taste of the road in August.

 

[Panman]

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Very nice. Will get my first taste of the road in August.

You will enjoy, I left Spearfish SD and did the Devils Tower then 14 & 14A, Chief Joseph, BearTooth and then up 78 to Columbus and called it a day. What a day it was!

I think I'll be taking some of that in on my way to Ray's "Oregon roads & Reubens" in September.

 

[escapefjrtist]

...waiting for the next installment! Thanks for sharing Richard.

--G

 

[ahchiu]

Nice job Richard, waiting for your next one.

 

[Niehart]

Nice job Richard, waiting for your next one.

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