Indianapolis area Z owners meet? Or Louisville or Cincinnati or Columbus....

lostkhan

Try and make it to C&C when you get a chance. Enthusiast community in Indy is not as big compare to NY but it's not bad.
I am planning to setup a Brown County Run for August 1st. (Saturday) So far, the only good road I know in Indy is Rt135. Do let me know other roads you have been to and I'll go test drive for potholes and traffic before the planned run.
I used to do mountain runs in NY (Bear Mountain), w/ a mix of different cars, including lotuses, porsche, bmws, evos, GTRs. It is amazing fun.
Attached is one picture I found of us on bimmerforums.

Bummer

A popular motorcycle route in the Brown County area:

Starting at a gas station in Columbus for meetup and fuelup (usually the BP) -

46 west to 135 south
Loop
135 south to 58
58 west to 446
446 north to 46
46 east through Nashville back to the 135 south turn
End of loop
Continuing east to Columbus for ~78 miles for the loop and 98 for the full route, BP to BP.

Since the 58 Cafe got shut down by the local church when they tried to get a liquor license, the only food midway on the route is at the Story Inn. They do sandwiches midday on Saturdays. Ice Cream at Bruster's at the 446 and 46 intersection. Lots of stuff at Nashville - food, shopping, and such. There's also a winery along the route for those into that sort of thing.

50 is an alternative to 58 - longer, but faster, smoother, and plenty scenic.

The online motorcycle group I'm a member of pushes to have this as an annual ride. Always a lot of folks behind me.

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lostkhan

This route looks amazing. I'll go test it out. Any good places to stop in the middle for pictures?

Bummer

These are country roads. There are several places I'd love to have as backgrounds to a car-porn shot, but roadwise they just won't work.

You can probably get away with a shot in front of the Story Inn. Very rustic. Might depend on day of the week.

Just south of the Horseman's entrance to the park there's a small cemetery on the east side of 135. There's a shelter with a gravel loop road. You can get some nice shots with woods as backgrounds there.

Assuming clockwise travel, on 446, just as you get to the bridge over the Lake Monroe, there is a State recreational area to the right that may have some possibilities.

There are areas that might work for simply pulling over and taking a pic from across the road. It really all depends on what you want in the way of a background.

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Bummer

Since Louisville is in the thread title, here's one at the south end of Indiana with about half in Kentucky:



If anyone is interested in this I'll have to give more detail maps of turns. The Kentucky side is not well marked. Most of the Indiana side is the Ohio River Road, but cuts off to go through some fairly deep forest past Buzzards Roost.

This route begins at 135 and the Ohio River Road in Corydon. It crosses the river into Kentucky then follows the river to Hawesville, crosses back over to Cannelton, then heads east on the Ohio River Road.

Lunch at the Overlook, a down home style restaurant overlooking the horse shoe bend of the Ohio River. Ice Cream at Emery's Ice Cream Parlor (if they're open, and yes, it looks like the web site).

There's a lot of great scenery on this one. This one isn't quite as popular with my touring bike buddies as the Brown County route, but that's primarily because it's long enough you really need to spend two nights in Corydon to do do it right. Of course that usually means Friday night dinner of frog legs or plate size tenderloin at The Dock right on the river in old Leavenworth - you can watch the barges go by on the river within rock throwing distance.

This one has several good photo op spots.

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lostkhan

Thanks for the input Steve. I'll look into all the maps. I'm not planning to go that down south since I'm planning to create a route close enough for people to drive atleast once a month.

Bummer

You're quite welcome.

I understand. I added that last one primarily because I know there are folks on here who live in the vicinity of Louisville. For those of us in the Indy area that's more of a once a year cruise.

I have one for the folks around Cincinnati and Lexington, but I need to find the maps I printed out to get that one right. That one includes Rabbit Hash Road, and some lanes the feel like they should have been featured in Deliverance. (We were traveling on a fairly narrow hilly lane through dense woods, talking about the scenery on our CB radios when we heard "Those sure are some purty bikes." I said "Thank you very much" and didn't slow down. It was a relief to not hear any banjo music.)

There are also some good roads near Paoli/French Lick, and north east of the Madison area. I also have some great routes in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Arkansas, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Twenty five years of hard core motorcycling touring has its benefits. This is my signature file from the Venture Rider site, complete with my motorcycle based visited states map:



The map in the signature file below is strictly Z Roadster based.

We're planning a trip to fill in the left side of the map, but will use the Z for that one. Maturity takes its toll when it comes to full gear motorcycle vacations - 5000 miles minimum or it doesn't count as a vacation. For some reason that wears worse than it used to.

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lostkhan

That is a lot of travel. We sure have to do one good trip once a year(Tail of Dragon ). I'm not good with navigation so I stick with nearby roads. Specially where Navigation gives up. So, August 1st is confirmed, but the route still isn't lol.

Venom13132

Does anyone know if there is going to be a cars and coffee this coming weekend, August 8th?

Dembflyr

Yup. It happens every Saturday @ 9:30. It's at Gator Mototrsports on 96th street.
Great turn out this past Saturday. We had about 10 IMIN guys there.

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Venom13132

nice. I had to work this past saturday. I don't have plans this weekend, would be nice to get the Z out. I will probably make it out there this weekend.

Venom13132

Looks like nice weather is on its way back!

I am putting my car back to stock. Have some parts for sale that would be easier to sell locally if anyone is interested..

AEM Cold Air Intake

25mm Hubcentric Wheel Spacers

Drilled/Slotted front and rear rotors

Z-Speed powdercoated aluminum under tray

shoot me a PM if interested.

Car is for sale also

Might be interested in a little cruise here soon when it gets nice out and if the car hasn't sold yet.

Also Bump for getting some activity going here locally!