What are you going to do with all of these additional roads?
I don't agree with your rating system. For example, Palomares gets a solid 10 in my book, especially if you take it from Niles Canyon north toward Dublin Canyon.
Are you going to have to ride the rest of these before you can add ratings? If not, how are you going to get the rest of us to agree on how they rate?
I'm going to put them on my list of roads to check out
And I'll only add ratings after I've ridden the road. I've ridden a few of them before, but it was before I decided to start the list. I didn't add them, because I didn't want the rating to be skewed by hindsight.
Also, of course everyone won't agree. Different people like different things in a road. I'll make a description of the "perfect" road and put it somewhere on the sheet so you have a reference. As for Palomares - the road surface isn't great, there's often debris, there are a LOT of driveways, and the turns are a tad slow for my taste. Those are all things that bring it down from a perfect 10.
If you're going to include things like "Forest Route 42N17", there are literally hundreds of those in the Sierras.
You're missing a few good dead-ends like Welch Creek (east from Calaveras), Marsh Rd (east from Felter), and Mendenhall (east from Del Valle Rd).
Somewhere around here a year or so back I listed several dozen good ones in the Sierras from just east of Fresno up past Sacramento. Oh, here's the link:
http://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=508745
Generally, the roads I include are ones that you can loop, string together, or that you can otherwise connect into a longer ride. Because of this, in and outs don't usually make it. Forest Route 42N17 is on there because it connected CA-3 to I-5 on a ride I did and is honestly a dang good road for a forest route. Even so, it got a low rating.
Thanks for the list!
I find the same road can change with say... weather, direction traveled, bike you are on, attitude, probably other variables as well.
So you gotta learn to love 'em all. :teeth
I completely agree, that's why there are columns showing which type of bike I used and which types I think the road is best suited for (broadly, among sport, sumo, ADV, and cruiser)
