The PAVEMENT thread: Cars, Racing, Drives, Speed...

[sixstringsteve]

I also found this fantastic resource:

http://www.motorcycleroads.com/Routes/Utah_120.html

 

[skippy]

It's about 5 mins from my house, I'll go verify after work.

And the the mouth of the canyon on the tooele side is about 2 minutes from my house I will check as well

 

[sixstringsteve]

great, thanks guys.

 

[skippy]

This just occured to me that you are planning on doing this in the miata, although the miata is capable of doing so the top 50% of the tooele side is dirt and is usually washboarded and sometimes pretty rutted from water running down the road. This is not a road i would take my GTI on just FYI

 

[Kiel]

isn't that butterfield? Its open all the way through except for the pit overlook. I drove it a couple weeks ago. I would love to see steve's miata drive the tooele side

 

[sixstringsteve]

This just occured to me that you are planning on doing this in the miata, although the miata is capable of doing so the top 50% of the tooele side is dirt and is usually washboarded and sometimes pretty rutted from water running down the road. This is not a road i would take my GTI on just FYI

Ok, scratch that then. It wouldn't be fun in my truck or my miata. Thanks for the info. I wish Google Maps distinguished between dirt roads and paved roads.

 

[N-Smooth]

I still suggest going up Butterfield to the top where the pavement ends... Like I said above

 

[blznnp]

I still suggest going up Butterfield to the top where the pavement ends... Like I said above

Does the pavement go all the way to the top though? I thought it ended 3/4 of the way up or so.

 

[N-Smooth]

I believe it goes up to where it levels out so that is what I would consider the top

 

[sixstringsteve]

I'm trying to figure out a route for this Sunday night. It'll be at 6 PM. Probably Alpine Loop to Provo, or Hobble Creek and Diamond Fork (even though they don't connect via pavement).

 

[TRD270]

[video=youtube;q1PK0hVGGg4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q1PK0hVGGg4[/video]

 

[Cascadia]

paging cascadia:

can you connect hobble creek to diamond fork on all pavement?

No you can not connect on pavement the entire way. About 8 miles up Hobble Creek Canyon it turns to a dirt road. It is dirt for probably 10 miles or so. Then you will connect to sheep creek road which is paved. From there you will connect to diamond fork. Probably 15 miles of diamond fork is paved. If you can find a loop that has sheep creek road in it, that would be a blast. Rolling hills with a bunch of gradual curves.

 

[sixstringsteve]

Great info, thank you. I'll have to find a way to connect to sheep creek, even if it's just an up and back.

 

[sixstringsteve]

[video=youtube;q1PK0hVGGg4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q1PK0hVGGg4[/video]

freaking amazing.

 

[193kyle]

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How do those handle?

In stock form, not so well.....this truck is nowhere near stock and he is the current national points leader in the Goodguys Autocross.

 

[sixstringsteve]

sweet. Can you ever get them to handle well like a car?

 

[TRD270]

I've been thinking about picking up an old fox body mustang for track days, you people are putting bad thoughts in my head.

 

[sixstringsteve]

No you can not connect on pavement the entire way. About 8 miles up Hobble Creek Canyon it turns to a dirt road. It is dirt for probably 10 miles or so. Then you will connect to sheep creek road which is paved. From there you will connect to diamond fork. Probably 15 miles of diamond fork is paved. If you can find a loop that has sheep creek road in it, that would be a blast. Rolling hills with a bunch of gradual curves.

Could you take Diamond Fork to Sheep Creek Rd. all on pavement? Like this?

https://www.google.com/maps/preview...72f:0x1236ed38e72f1613!4f0.8537186!10e1&fid=0

 

[sixstringsteve]

I've been thinking about picking up an old fox body mustang for track days, you people are putting bad thoughts in my head.

That's what we do. Didn't you check some box saying you forfeited any and all willpower when you joined RME? I know I did.

 

[TRD270]

That's what we do. Didn't you check some box saying you forfeited any and all willpower when you joined RME? I know I did.

I think I joined before those boxes were entered, when RME was still in the binary stages.