Lonely Nevada highway

[cmac2012]

Highway 95, between the Oregon border and Winnemucca, NV. You can see the snow, but I checked the roads -- dry, good traction. They sand regularly. About 27 F most of the time. Sorry about the poor pics. One good reason to get an iPhone . . .

Speed racers, eat your hearts out . . . . .







Well, you get the idea. To commemorate the 268,000 milestone on my Bimmer, I took these shots on said highway:





Yeah, I know that's tame for some of you big MB guys, but I was pleased with it at that mileage figure. About as fast as this well worn sweetie will go anymore, but good enough for me.

I was passed at some point by an S 500 or 600, couldn't tell exactly, looked to be a few years old. Didn't see him again. I had just passed a semi, was doing about 80 and he passed the semi and me both.

More, these were taken quite a while apart:





The view leaving beautiful downtown Winnemucca, Nevada:

[Skippy]

Nice. I did much the same on U.S. 50 about two months ago. No cops. long straight stretches. Nice views too. I actually thought some of central Utah was prettier than Nevada.

[cmac2012]

I did 50 in Utah back in '92. Some gorgeous scenery. The Red Rocks areas are a national treasure, IMO.

[Jim B.]

I was on that road around 1980 or so, in a '72 Skylark I had back then.

Went to see the big copper mine in McDermitt right near the Oregon border.

Stopped in a bar out there, and talked to a few locals. One of them had a Potato ranch in Winnemucca he offered to sell me for $10,000

There was a bunch of whorehouses, legal ones, maybe around 6 or 7 of them, around downtown Winnemucca at that time, I believe.

Outside of Clark County (Las Vegas) and Washoe County (Reno) prostitution is pretty much legal at the option of the other counties (White Pine, Douglas, Lander, Nye, Storey, Mineral, etc.)

Beautiful country vistas, excellent for high speed driving in some areas, if you don't get ticketed

[spamman450]

.this is us on the highway 93 in Nevada. we drove it the length of the state hightailing it to vegas. The loneliest highway i have ever been on.

[Pete Geither]

Riding thru Utah about ten years ago with a buddy,,, we hit a stretch shortly after we left Arches National Park. I was on a ZX11 Kawasaki,,, he was on a ZX10. We hit a stretch where you could see 50 miles in any direction. I looked at him and he at me. We nailed it and traveled at between 120 and 130 MPH for 15 minutes or so. An experience that will never be topped or lived again.

[LaRondo]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Highway 95, between the Oregon border and Winnemucca, NV. You can see the snow, but I checked the roads -- dry, good traction. They sand regularly. About 27 F most of the time. Sorry about the poor pics. One good reason to get an iPhone . . .

Speed racers, eat your hearts out . . . . .

Dramatic pics. I can't believe you took the odometer stats @ 110mph

[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by LaRondo

Dramatic pics. I can't believe you took the odometer stats @ 110mph

Hey, I was driving a Gehman automo-beel. Very steady, it wasn't tough. Most of the pics of the highway, I was only doing 70 to 80. The road was surprisingly good quality.

Plus, I was by myself. Both of my riders going up opted to stay longer. Couldn't get anyone on Craigslist for the ride back. Not surprising. A bit longer than I like to drive in one day by myself -- 625 miles -- but not bad.

[LaRondo]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Hey, I was driving a Gehman automo-beel. Very steady, it wasn't tough. Most of the pics of the highway, I was only doing 70 to 80. The road was surprisingly good quality.

Plus, I was by myself. Both of my riders going up opted to stay longer. Couldn't get anyone on Craigslist for the ride back. Not surprising. A bit longer than I like to drive in one day by myself -- 625 miles -- but not bad.

I always do a lot of on-the-road photo shooting myself. I used to do it even in the days when I had to watch the road through the view finder.

Nowadays it's actually easy with a good point and shoot.

Apparently it was ok for you to shoot there, if you're alone on the road and the car goes steady. 110 mph is not too fast, even for an old Bimmer. But than again, that's almost 180 Km/h.

[LaRondo]

[Angel]

You guys are frickin' lightweights. Can't do 1000 miles in a car ? I've done 1000 miles on my motorcycle (took 21 hours, 3h rest break). There are hardcore Iron Butt guys going 1500 miles in 24 hours (which you can only do out west).


-John (IBA #11,000-something)

[nh500sl]

What model of BMW?

[t walgamuth]

I have done over 1000 in a day numerous times. Start at 330 in the morning, take food and drink in a cooler and just keep it rolling. Get there around midnight. I did Lafayette to Cape Cod back when it was still 55 mph speed limie in my old bmw bavaria.

You cannot log two days like that in a row though.

When I was out west back in 1991 or 2, I was driving the 280e euro that I am now autocrossing with the five speed. We did 85 on the two lanes and got passed by locals occasionally. It was nice driving speeds that the car was designed to drive on roads that had enough irregularities to work the suspension but never felt unsafe.

We also did some long stretches of old route 66. There is a section in New Mexico (I believe) where it goes about 13 miles without a turn of any kind. We ran 85 and 90 there with no problems. When I was out there a few years ago we did some of the same roads in the rental chrysler 300 at some of the same speeds.

Road trips. I often get the urge in February. Cabin fever. I have taken trips and often bought cars in February. Anything to break the dreary cloudy, short days.

Tom W

[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by nh500sl

What model of BMW?

It's the only one I have, it's in my sig line, an '87 325i.

The previous owner took excellent care of it, I bought it at 214K for $3400. Put in a clutch, driveline, and heater core right off the bat, but overall I've been pretty fortunate.