JNOR's Loop

[the Ferret]

A couple of years ago my friend and riding buddy Jnor came down from his home in mid Ohio to spend a night at my place and ride some sw Ohio and n KY roads with me. One evening after dinner, I took him on one of my favorite loops. Jnor is the fella I rode to California with last summer. Same age as me, retired a few months before me. Rides like me, eats like me, keeps the same hours. We get along pretty well. After he got back from Cali he decided after 50 years he was done riding, sold his bike and all his gear and bought a drag race car which was his other passion. Since then, he has sold the race car, bought a used FJR (although he really wants another Kawasaki Versys) and is enjoying life on 2 wheels again.

Anyhow, after he had quit riding I named the loop I took him on "Jnor's Loop", in his honor. It incorporates 65 miles of curvy roads and visits a covered bridge and 2 lakes in this area, Stonelick Lake and Wm Harsha lake known locally as East Fork.

When I woke up this morning it had finally quit raining, the wind quit blowing, and the sun came out, but it was still only 55 degrees so I fixed a thermos of hot tea, grabbed an energy bar and rolled out the CB to ride Jnor's loop.

Covered bridge

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Stonelick Lake (leaves as seen above seat are just beginning to turn)

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I pulled over by the lone pic nic table and set up to eat breakfast

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After breakfast I headed on the second part of the loop. Here I did deviate from the loop a bit. There are 2 roads that parallel each other and end up in basically the same place. One the one I took Jnor on is real technical, sharp turns, off camber turns, deceiving turns. The other the state route is full of sweepers including one long that drops in elevation from the top of the ridge to the valley below. I prefer sweepers to technical so I took the state route

Big Sweeper on state rt

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Ran into some traffic in the little town of Owensville where our county fair was going on. Some of the "classics on display" as I drove past

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and on their way there. Normally this road looks like the way I am going traffic wise lol

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Back into the curves

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and a stop at East Fork lake on the dam

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Headed for home I come thru this series of downhill, uphill curves, then a hard sharp left and a run on this roller coaster section. Hard to see but it's down, up, down, up then into a right hand turn. With proper speed you leave the ground at the hump in the middle which always puts butterflies in the stomach.

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3 more miles and I pull into my driveway. A great day and ride on Jnor's loop. Wish he had been here to ride it with me.