jc052685 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 just found this video if a buddy of mine and one of his friends tearing up some mountain roads in calli. This vid is from about 6-7 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyZ Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Where is that? The first part looked really familiar and then I got lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aziza z Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Looks like a really fun road. Where is this at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc052685 Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 looks like highway 17 & 9. not sure where, they are his videos that I happen to have also. they are labled highway 17 and highway 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palauoriginal Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 looks alot like 9 but im not sure 9 is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PresaMax Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Not to hijack this thread... but how about putting together a list of fun canyon roads for the members. I'm not very familar with many canyon roads but the one I've been on is Tonner Canyon Road off the 57 Freeway in the Brea area. If you go east it dumps you into Chino Hills. Julius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMWHYR0HEN Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 That's definatly Norcal we don't have trees that big and green down here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CArFAn Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I know of a road that goes from fremont to san jose or something like that i went 2 times once this year once last year. Nice elavtion changes and a few tight turns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJLamberson Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 There are several really great roads in my area, I found the best way find them, other then exploring, was to use google maps, go to satallite, and just look around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillerBjt Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Ok from driving on Highway 9 atleast once a day for a year, that is not highway 9. it never gets that small, but i could be some of the side roads off of skyline blvd, i grew up within a 5 mile range from highway 9 for most of my life, its a awsome road that i test all my vehicles on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CArFAn Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Wait skyline blvd as in where skyline high school is? I went there for 2 years and never seen those roads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc052685 Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 one of the videos is labled highway 9 on to 17. that is where i got 9 from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Not to hijack this thread... but how about putting together a list of fun canyon roads for the members. I'm not very familar with many canyon roads but the one I've been on is Tonner Canyon Road off the 57 Freeway in the Brea area. If you go east it dumps you into Chino Hills. Tonner Canyon Road is in Whittier off the 605/60 fwys. Its a good but short road and I've wrecked there before. Motorcycles race on it Sunday nights. Carbon Canyon Road is the road you're thinking of and its too crowded with traffic 90% of the time to be of any fun. Locally in SoCal there's too much traffic to really enjoy any of the good mountain roads (Angeles Crest, Ortega Hwy, Glendora Mountain Road). Central California has some good roads that are relatively free of traffic. Hwy 58 between Atascadero and Taft. Foxen Canyon Road near Los Olivos. A number of farm roads near Shandon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trys_Hard Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Locally in SoCal there's too much traffic to really enjoy any of the good mountain roads (Angeles Crest, Ortega Hwy, Glendora Mountain Road). Central California has some good roads that are relatively free of traffic. You have to get up early to have fun. There is a group of us (Z's and other cars) that meet up every Sunday morning to go to breakfast at Newcombes Ranch up Angeles Crest Hiway. We meet up at the New Sports Chalet store at Angeles Crest and the 210. Art Rinner 75 280Z 73 240ZT 83 280ZXT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustrocket Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 That's definitely not 9. Speaking of which, has anybody been up there lately? I havent been in a while because friends kept getting pulled over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I didn't watch the video, but I'd have to suggest that it is a bad idea to post video of yourself breaking the law. I can only assume that "tearing it up" means that some laws were broken. Like John, I've had a bad crash in a canyon. Mine was actually the incident that started me autoxing. Once I actually got to an autox and had an instructor teaching me what to do I was amazed at how much I had to learn and how little I actually knew. Track days are even more of an eye opener. I look back at what I was doing in the canyons and I'm just grateful that I lived through it. I always always always went very late at night. I was a night owl for one, but you can also see traffic coming a hell of a lot better at night. You'll see the headlights even on a blind corner way before you'd see the front of a car in the day, and you'll usually get glimpses of headlights way off in the distance to let you know someone else is on the road. Of course the late night theory once left me climbing out of a steep ravine on a moonless night at 3:30 in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMWHYR0HEN Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Back in high school a group of friends and I with 240sx's would play the game and do the late night canyon runs. I say play the game because almost everytime someone would crash and avoiding a wreck was the game. I have to admit at the time it was exciting. Friendly compitition, testing you and your cars capabilities but, the crashes were too real and came too frequently we had to quit. We all realized that a cheap thrill like that wasn't worth dying/hurt, pain and suffering from a wrecked car that we all work so hard for. So we all took it to the track and like Jon mentioned realized we knew very little about driving. Now i'm not going to say I don't drive canyon roads anymore because I do enjoy a nice daytime drive once in a while. However I would never drive the 8/10-10/10 like I used to when I was dumb. If your in the Socal area my fav's are: Sand Canyon aka little tujunga cnyn rd. - lots of banked turns, high and low speed sections, low traffic Angeles Crest (going towards the Antelope valley and wrightwood)- predictable high speed turns, well paved. lots of CHP and bikes Bouquet and San franquito Cnyn - moderate to low speed turn. decreasing radiuses Then you have Mt. Wilson, Glendora Mt. road, La tuna Cnyn, and then the Malibu area cnyn which branches into so many including the infamous stunt rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilbertZ Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Calaveras Road is a fun one too - but lots of cylclists and the occasional cow in the middle of the road (No joke!) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Sunol,+CA&daddr=37.504279,-121.827049+to:milpitas,+ca&hl=en&geocode=&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=12&via=1&sll=37.513811,-121.909103&sspn=0.199887,0.307617&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 What's funny is that before I started autocrossing and road racing I would drive "fast" on canyon roads and the car would be out of shape in a lot of spots and I would be working hard to go "fast." After a few years of autox and road racing I've driven the same canyon roads, more comfortably and with the car in shape on its side of the road, and I cover the same distance in much less time. Smooth is fast and a lot of that comes from knowing when to go fast and when to go slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Most of it looks like Hwy 9 or some road way out there--it gets very dark and narrow in some places, but there is also section of grassy hills that looks a lot more East Bay. The scene keeps switching, so these are probably from different locations. Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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