The Great Drive
That sure likes like a Mini-Dragon run 
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Are you insane or are you deliberately being silly?
The Dragon, well known as it is is referred as "a commute" here. Seriously, I used to take the Calaveras Canyon to work sometime for fun when traffic on the 680 was bad. That's 15 miles of twisties compared to the 11 of the Dragon.
The Great Drive is 136 miles.
Don't get me wrong, I want to do the Dragon and it looks wicked.. but a "Mini-Dragon"? C'mon.
The Dragon, well known as it is is referred as "a commute" here. Seriously, I used to take the Calaveras Canyon to work sometime for fun when traffic on the 680 was bad. That's 15 miles of twisties compared to the 11 of the Dragon.
The Great Drive is 136 miles.
Don't get me wrong, I want to do the Dragon and it looks wicked.. but a "Mini-Dragon"? C'mon.
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From: SoCal
Originally Posted by YeloS2000ShowGrl,Mar 8 2007, 03:20 AM
i got a nice rock chip in bigbird from the drive down to the dragon back in 04 luckily it hasnt spidered yet :crossingfingers:
if you get rid of vmom you gettin another
if you get rid of vmom you gettin another
butt they have been der for a long time so I doubt it 
NOt gettin rid of her
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From: SoCal
Originally Posted by jedwards,Mar 8 2007, 08:42 AM
Are you insane or are you deliberately being silly?
The Dragon, well known as it is is referred as "a commute" here. Seriously, I used to take the Calaveras Canyon to work sometime for fun when traffic on the 680 was bad. That's 15 miles of twisties compared to the 11 of the Dragon.
The Great Drive is 136 miles.
Don't get me wrong, I want to do the Dragon and it looks wicked.. but a "Mini-Dragon"? C'mon.
The Dragon, well known as it is is referred as "a commute" here. Seriously, I used to take the Calaveras Canyon to work sometime for fun when traffic on the 680 was bad. That's 15 miles of twisties compared to the 11 of the Dragon.
The Great Drive is 136 miles.
Don't get me wrong, I want to do the Dragon and it looks wicked.. but a "Mini-Dragon"? C'mon.
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From: This is not my house!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=ta....131095,0.11673
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&sadd...067289,0.188141
Contrast and compare.
Never having been there, I think the beauty of the Dragon is the roads are more track-like. More sweeper pins as opposed to supertight switchbacks. This has always been my impression and it's borne up by the maps.
Has anyone here done both?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&sadd...067289,0.188141
Contrast and compare.
Never having been there, I think the beauty of the Dragon is the roads are more track-like. More sweeper pins as opposed to supertight switchbacks. This has always been my impression and it's borne up by the maps.
Has anyone here done both?
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From: La Crescenta, CA
Originally Posted by jedwards,Mar 7 2007, 10:57 AM
Uhm... no there aren't. There is one at a critical point. At the top of Mt Ham there are washrooms in the Lick Observatory. It's important to know if it's open.
Hours are:
Mon - Fri: 12:30pm - 5:00pm
Sat - Sun: 10:00am - 5:00pm
http://www.ucolick.org/public/index.html
Also the Junction restaurant on the east side, and perhaps a stop could be arranged on the west side at Alum Rock
Hours are:
Mon - Fri: 12:30pm - 5:00pm
Sat - Sun: 10:00am - 5:00pm
http://www.ucolick.org/public/index.html
Also the Junction restaurant on the east side, and perhaps a stop could be arranged on the west side at Alum Rock
