So who's into a S.E. Ohio day trip?

[El Toro Joe]

Meetup time for the event on October 17th.

8am -breakfast at the little restaurant next to the Best Western

8:45 - start riding

Mark aka "wheatonFJR" found a Best Western Motel in Caldwell, OH which intersects the route at Rt 78 and Interstate 77.

Anyone interested in spending Friday/Saturday nights at the Best Western should contact them at

Best Western

44128 Fairground Rd

Caldwell, OH 43724-9680

(740) 732-7599

The route will be 330 miles, start and finish at the Best Western in Caldwell

Depending on how many people show up, we'll try to get in groups no more than 5 or 6.

ride leader volunteers

tstaff

yamaholic

drc32-0

wheatonFJR

jnor(OUT)

El Toro Joe

mdisher and his dad

pmspaul

scrapedup and his buddy

JimLL

ridgerunner88

protondecay123

Kevin Daly

BikerGeek99 and wifey

tstaffs brother w/fjr

FZ-1 Wayne

Dave Kaye (first beer is on him)

More to follow

 

[mdisher]

I could possibly play hooky for a day, if it falls on the right day.

Watching this thread for developments...

 

[El Toro Joe]

I could possibly play hooky for a day, if it falls on the right day.
Watching this thread for developments...

Keep an eye on the weather, and let me know what day works for you (not this week). I'll need at least one day notice. Ive got about a 2 1/2 hr ride to get down that way

 

[drc32-0]

I'm in.

 

[dbracer23]

I'd love to go if I can make the schedule work.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Maybe like Friday August 14th or maybe the 21st. We'll have to keep an eye on the weather. It would be great if one of you local riders could put a route together, maybe something around 300+ miles. Or we could just do some of the roads from last years Ramble.

 

[drc32-0]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.

Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.
Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

Sounds good to me :yahoo:

 

[BikerGeek99]

I'd come along but I've gotta save my remaining time off work for EOM and whatnot.

You'ns'all ride safe!

BG

 

[El Toro Joe]

So who's in? and what date works best for everyone?

 

[mdisher]

Weather permitting I could probably participate on the 14th or 21st. (Nothing critical is booked those days for me at this time).

-MD

Did someone want to post up a meeting place and time so I can figure out when I need to leave?

 

[wheatonFJR]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.
Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

You bastard.



Yer gonna have to show me around sometime.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.
Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

You bastard.



Yer gonna have to show me around sometime.

Mark, why don't you just join us

 

[wheatonFJR]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.
Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

You bastard.



Yer gonna have to show me around sometime.

Mark, why don't you just join us

I would if I could...but it will have to wait until later in September or October before I can get back out there.

Post pictures when you guys do this...

 

[mdisher]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.

My Garmin is ready and waiting to accept said route.

 

[drc32-0]

Would a route that starts in Zanesville and ends in Lancaster by way of the Hocking Hills work?It would be about 250 miles...about 25% county roads and 75% state routes suchas 555,78,216,595,93,56 and 374.The Hocking county roads would include...Big Pine,Kreaschbaum,Thompson Ridge,Harble-Griffith,Ilsboro-Ceder Falls,Clearcreek and Revenge.It would take about five hours to run it.
Plenty of twisties,some nice tight sweepers and a couple of roads that just flat out have character...Big Pine and Clearcreek.

Let me know if you're interested.

You bastard.



Yer gonna have to show me around sometime.

You're not fooling anybody...I rode you're Ramble route...you know S.E.O. better than most locals.

I rode the intended route today and it came out to 165 miles and 4 1/2 hours with a break and lunch.I'll probably add a little loop to bring it up to about 200 miles and 5 hours.I'll post a turn by turn route tomorrow...I'm not good at plotting google maps so if someone else wants to do it that would be good.

As for meeting...there's A Duke gas station at the exit for SR93 a few miles east of Zanesville.It is just north of the interstate,from there we can take back roads to get around Zanesville.If everyone would rather meet on the west side of town there is a Starfire gas station and Mcdonalds at the SR40 exit.The west side would be a little better for getting to our starting point.

Time and date...I'm not working right now...I'm extremely flexable...any day works for me ,but I was planning on stopping at Jimbo's on SR56 for lunch and they are only open early on Thursday and Friday...time-10 or 11?

Like I said...I'm flexable. Denny

 

[mdisher]

You're not fooling anybody...I rode you're Ramble route...you know S.E.O. better than most locals.
I rode the intended route today and it came out to 165 miles and 4 1/2 hours with a break and lunch.I'll probably add a little loop to bring it up to about 200 miles and 5 hours.I'll post a turn by turn route tomorrow...I'm not good at plotting google maps so if someone else wants to do it that would be good.

As for meeting...there's A Duke gas station at the exit for SR93 a few miles east of Zanesville.It is just north of the interstate,from there we can take back roads to get around Zanesville.If everyone would rather meet on the west side of town there is a Starfire gas station and Mcdonalds at the SR40 exit.The west side would be a little better for getting to our starting point.

Time and date...I'm not working right now...I'm extremely flexable...any day works for me ,but I was planning on stopping at Jimbo's on SR56 for lunch and they are only open early on Thursday and Friday...time-10 or 11?

Like I said...I'm flexable. Denny

I'll be happy to plot your route in MapSource and generate a GPX/GDB file, lust let me know the turn by turns and a way to call you to verify if I have any ?'s

My preference would be the west side, but what's 10 more miles between friends when you're gonna log a 750 mile day?

 

[Greg E.]

Someone come up w/ a solid date and maybe I can talk my road partner ( Just Roy) into us making a trek to Ohio.

 

[drc32-0]

Zanesville-Hocking Hills-Lancaster route

From the intersection of 22 and 93 south of Zanesville...

road direction miles turn comments

93 south 6.5 left @ Roseville

Athens-Deavertown Rd south 6.5 straight @ Deavertown

555 south 28 left Below Chesterhill

676 east 4 left

792 north 7 right

377 north 8 left

78 west 24 right@ Murray City

216 north 7 left @ New Straitsville

595 south 9.2 right

33 north 5.3 left @ Logan

93 south 9 right @ Ilsboro

Ilsboro-Ceder Falls Rd west 6 right

374 north 4 right

664 north 7 left

Big Pine Rd west 6.7 right

374 north 3.5 left

Thompson Ridge Rd west 13.5 left @ Lauralville

56 east 9.5 left

374 north 5 right

Big Pine Rd east 2.5 left

Kreashbaum Rd north 3.5 right

678 north 1 left

180 west 1 right

374 north 7 left

33 north 2.5 left

ClearCreek Rd west 8 right

Revenge Rd north 12 end Lancaster

All miles are approximate.

Sadly I had to cut out Harble-Griffith road.This is a great road but it is recently paved and ODOT's practice of lining newly paved roads with gravel has left it a mess.There isn't a clean right hander the whole way.If the group wants, we could ride it,but it would be at a cautious pace.

I'm just throwing this out there...meet Friday August 14 10:30 40 West exit on I70 just west of Zanesville...I'll get the exit number.El Toro? Others?