Ohio twisties and more

[southwind25]

We will be exploring this a bit this year..:7fume:

http://www.motorcycleroads.us/oh.html

[southwind25]

Actually, a few gearhead freinds and us sat down over the weekend and dealt with this arctic blast by laying down a few routes for day and weekend (0vernight?) road trips. These are mostly on the east and southeast parts of Ohio . While the routes are starting in our hometown of Akron they cover several of the more interesting 2 lane Ohio backroads. the attendee's besides our se7en will even include a couple motorcycles, as well as Mini coopers a miata and who knows.
no minivans-suv's allowed. :ack:
Anyone of course is welcome to join! The trips will be spontanious weatherwise and we will give a few days notice here for a starting point-starting time and route basics if anyone wants to meet up with us along the way.

[southwind25]

If anyone is driving along the roads of NE-ohio, mainly Akron Tonight/friday, and through the weekend, wave hello we will be putting some miles on her. :7drive:

[southwind25]

Possible weekend Blat ahead

Looks like we will have the car back together for the weekend..so lets see if the tranny seal is fixed!
lets go a-blatting!

We are shooting for perhaps a long 1 day drive this sunday. We will be comming from our hometown of akron. The run will sorta officially start in canton on RT 800, travel down to rt212, around atwood lake a bit (a favorite sailing lake for us). We will pick up rt 164 around leesville and take it east by north east to lisbon. maybe a bite to eat and then take 172 to canton. anyone want to join?


we have a couple overnight ohio trips planned as well...as the summer allows using such routes as 800, 26, 564, 78, 7, 666, 555, 541 and 62.

[gjslutz]

What is the start time & where. Not sure of plans yet. There is also an Auto-X Sunday as well.

Gary

[southwind25]

We figure meet at 9:00, +/- an hour depending on who might be comming.
we let the cleveland lotus guys we are going out to play.

We have not run these roads yet...so using google maps theres a few parking lots on rt 800 (cleveland avenue) between 30th and 32nd just south of the rt 800 exit from rt77. We could meet there we would guess.

just look for the yellow lotus :)

autocross sounds great too!! However at the moment, we want to get a little more time on the car before we start knocking cones down mid summer.

[gjslutz]

Still unsure yet, + is better for me if I go as the grandson is staying over Sat. night and would need to take him home first.

Gary

[southwind25]

Heck bring the grandson!

you could be the coolest grandpa ever..of course he probably already thinks that.

[southwind25]

We have 2 cars now Mike and jen's yellow caterham and ours. We are starting from our place in akron at 10:00, which means arriving at the start point about 10:30...if that helps gary? any others?
robert/mary 330-714-3740

[gjslutz]

Bob, Jackie & I will be along as well as Ron Schneider in his Lotue Europa. We can meet at your meeting point.

Gary

[southwind25]

Gary great!..see you about 10:30
great to have you along!
330-714-3740

my damn cell phone is on the fritz

[Mike Rohaley]

Bravo to R&M for making such a great day happen! In all twelve people and seven cars (ironic...yes) got together for some back road fun. It was a great way to kick off the driving season. Thanks for the invite and thanks also to Frank for the twine (no driver should be without a few feet as I found out today).

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[southwind25]

Thank you to everyone who came along and made this a great Day!
Mike and Jen (cat 7), Frank and Pat (csr 7) Gary and Jackie (birkin 7), Jenny and kyle (original mini) and the europa and Miata (drats i am bad with names..) We found out RT 164 is AWESOME! Thanks to frank and gary we found some devilishly fun twisties off of the route as well in the town of berkholz and new cumberland rd. oh and we decided to not get the elvis burger (hamburger with peanut butter and bananas?) at the chrome Diner in lisbon.

During the begining of one backroad adventure we missed a turn in our se7en and what i thought was the road ended up being an off road dustbowl. Jen (mike and jen) was going for her extinguisher to put us out because what was a cloud of solid dust looked like the car was engulfed in smoke!

So we add another 175 miles onto our total.
Damn that was fun!! Lets do this some more!!
theres a few other little mishaps but those belong to the drivers to tell.

thanks for the pics mike, you beat me to the post! heres a couple others.





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[Mike Rohaley]

Ron and Don. Ron with the Europa and Don with the MX-5.

I must say that it is nice to see Ron using his Europa as Jeebus and Colin intended 34 years after he bought it, I hope I am physically up for it let alone the car.

It sure is easier to stomach the cold, wet weather we woke up to this morning when we all made the most of the bright and warm weekend.
:7rain:

[Al Navarro]

How does Frank like the CSR? And did Pat take over the old crossflow?

[southwind25]

We cant exactly tell how he enjoyed driving it...the darn thing was so fast all we could see on any given road was a blur blasting past!..

Then again he had the huge grin on his face when we met at the crossroads as he waited for us.. We think he loves the car!! he still had his wrist-event bands on from the track days he ran this year.

the car is quick...he has more in the cosworth..than we have in our whole car and it shows..it's awesome.
fantastic ride..and he loves pushing it hard too!! good for him he's using it for what it was built for.

((we had the itty bitty engine car in the group and it felt like we had a briggs and straton lawnmower engine in ours compared to the "big boys" ))

They are seriously looking to sell the other car.

[Kitcat]

Robert:

Others may be faster, but yours is the prettiest!

Mike