Originally Posted by
Trevtassie
If you can ride down that track at 25mph on a loaded bike, good on you... me, I wouldn't because who knows what's around the next corner...
You will note I said, "if you had to choose" I'll pretty well always chose the widest gear range I can, but the ATS doesn't particularly like deep water or dust, so it doesn't get a gurnsey off road.
The road in the second picture is at a place called Hell’s Gate. It’s on the old Colorado Midland Railroad bed which is one a few standard gauge railroads built in the late 1800 in Colorado. Because it’s a railroad...and a very wide gauge one at that...the sight lines are very long. Even on the tightest corner on the road, the sight line is close to half a mile. Hell’s Gate is narrowest place on the road (about 40 miles total) and it’s still pretty wide for a dirt road in Colorado. There are very few places where you’d could be surprised by on-coming vehicles. It’s pretty save to bomb down as fast as gravity, friction, and nerves will allow. There’s a whole bunch of these kinds of roads...old railroad beds...here in Colorado and all of them are safe to ride at fairly stupid speeds.