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This is a great ride if you can get a 3-day weekend this summer... and aren't afraid of crazy bridges :)

The whole ride is 3 days, and I'll do one post for each day of the ride.

Day 1: Head to Escanaba

Take Hwy 2 all along the southern coast of the U.P. There are some great views, and the traffic is fairly easy. It's a great stretch to open 'er up :)

I have numbers on the points along the way where we stopped for a quick break.

Make sure you take the last possible exit before you hit the Mackinac Bridge, for a couple of reasons:

A) There is a cool rest area with lots of places to take pictures of the bridge.

B) It's a good place to have one last cigar... just in case you don't make it across :)

We heard a bunch of stories about cars getting blown off of the bridge in the wind. When we rolled across it was windy and it's grated, which is always fun.

Here's the bridge:

Share your ride and I'll post it here, on The Biker Blog:

jason.hillery@wozz.com

I've been buying a bunch of 60's biker movies lately... I guess I've been in the mood for good acting, bad plots, and killer bikes...

I just picked up 'Wild Angels' with Peter Fonda... classic!

Send me your recommendations... I'm running out of movies to watch :)

jason.hillery@wozz.com

This may be my favorite one-day ride... Door County is always a blast and there are tons of roads with tight, slow-going turns through the woods. Here is one of the routes we typically take:

• Once you get to Sturgeon Bay (On HWY 57), watch for the Green Bay Rd. Exit (it will be on your right and curl over the highway).
• Take that across the water and take a left on 4 th st. (it’s one way)
• Take a left on Jefferson (it’s a block down and it’s a one way as well.)
• Take a right on 3 rd Ave. (This is CTY Rd. B / Bay Shore Dr.)
• You’ll stay on B until you get to Murphy County Park
• You’re going to stay left on CTY Rd. G and get back on HWY 4
• Take 42 into Fish Creek.
• As a bonus, you can stay on 42 and go through Sister Bay (I recommend Sister Bay café for food)
• As a double bonus, you can cruise up to the ferry at the end of 42. Or, you can hit 57 S out of Sister Bay and come down the other side of Door County.
• If you do that, stay on 57 S until you get to a little town called Valmy. Take a left on T (which is also Whitefish Bay Rd.) Take a right on Glidden Rd (which is still T)
• T goes all the way back to Sturgeon Bay and dumps you out on 57 S
• Go south across the bridge and hop on U
• Stay on U until you get to S and go left
• Take S to 42 go left Go right on HWY 54 and it’ll bring you right back to Green Bay.

If you have a ride you'd like to share, email it to me and I'll post here so others can enjoy it!

jason.hillery@wozz.com

Get out and ride!

I had to share this picture... my buddy Tony and I were up north at the ferry and ran into a group of French tourists... they had to get pictures and videos of us starting the bikes.

It turns out, they LOVE Harleys overseas and they were all going on-and-on about the history of the bikes... it was a bit odd because we couldn't relly understand what they were saying :)

Check out my buddy getting filmed:

This is a cool 1-day ride... it's a couple of hundred miles, round-trip. A little more if you get off the beaten-path.

It's always great to start from Shawano and take a spin around the lake.

1. Head north on 55 along the Wolf River to the Nicolet National Forest.

2. Once you hit Lily, hop on 52 and head into the forest.

3. You have a couple of options, but I like hoping on 32 South then taking Cty Rd. C for some curves. From there you can hop on National Forest Rd and go south on Cty Hwy F.

4. From there, it's fun to take 32 North to Cty. Rd. T. You end up zig-zagging through the forest, but Cty. Rd. T has curves and some lake views.

5. Take 64 West and get back on 32 South and cruise back through Pulaski to 29.

6. If you don't have that much time, just skip Cty. Rd. C and head south on 32 through the forest.

Pretty simple ride, but always a fun day.

Share you ride, and I'll post it here.

jason.hillery@wozz.com 

That's the day I bought I my Harley... as you can see from the picture, Eric at Vandervest had to help me turn it on.. haha.

Ok, so I wasn't that inept, but it was a new experience for me, given I previously rode a BMW.

I'm starting this new Biker Blog for a couple of reasons:

A - I like motor bikes. All of 'em. I road enduro and off-road, sport bikes, and even a 50cc mini-bike at one point (but, who hasn't).

B - I wanted to start a sharing network where I share rides, you share rides, we all share rides. Like you, I'm always trying to find new day-trips, and I wanted to create a place find them.

I'm looking forward to sharing... I hope you'll participate in the fun. Summer is short. Get out and ride.