Texas Back Roads Motorcycle Adventure - Tour of the Texas Hill Country- Part 2 -Austin to Junction
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This is PART 2 of an epic road/off-pavement trip that Billy Oliver and I went on in February 2024. Almost 1200 miles over four days.
We left Sour Lake Texas and headed to Austin TX for our first stop (340 miles). As always, our goal was to look for as many "off pavement" (gravel/dirt) routes as we can reasonably find and ride on the way. The second day we rode from Austin TX to Junction TX - just a fantastic ride.....NUMEROUS water crossings through the Texas Hill Country (218 miles) including the infamous James River-if you have done it, you know. If you haven't, much watch!!!! At least nine (9) water crossings.
On day 3 we left the Overrun Ranch in Junction (owned by Ronnie and Susan Choate) and rode West and then South to Barksdale. Lot of "bump" gates through this section. From Barksdale, we hit two of the "Three Twisted Sisters" (RR 336 and 337) and one of the "Dirty Sisters" (now so named)....ended up in Boerne, Texas (247 miles). We had thirteen (13) water crossings....
Day 4 we left Boerne and rode to New Braunfels and the awesome River Road where we crossed the Guadalupe several times (all pavement but a neat road) to San Marcos through College Station. After a lot of pavement, we found part of the "Cheeseburger Loop" (gravel) outside of CSTAT which got us back to the Sam Houston National Forest. From there we slabbed it back to Hardin County (for me) and Winnie TX (for Billy). 383 miles on day 4....
This is a must ride for any adventure motorcycle rider-especially the Austin to Junction to Boerne part.... I hope to do this again this year! As always, be glad to share GPX file of this route. Thanks for riding along!
You owne that James River crossing!
Those low water crossings are often covered in algae and can be super slick.
Oh I know….
I would've loved to join you on this ride. Yall should have gone down FM 1431 from Cedar Park to Marble Falls. It's about 40 miles with very few straight parts. Lots of curves and hills. Cow Creek Rd branches off it and it's another great one.
I do this ride just about every weekend.
What a cool trip
I love your Hill Country ride. I'm looking for people with adventure bikes to ride with. I have the 2023 890 Adventure R with two good rides on it, Mena AR area and the SM500. I will retire in 13 days so I'll have a lot more time to ride. I live about 30 miles from Sour Lake, contact me if you're interested in another rider.
Thank you sir! Love to have you join us. I am riding the Trans-America trail now -In Burnsville NC now-check out SE TXDS/Adventure page on FB
Noisy music drowned out your narration.
Yes you are right….
you lost me due to music.....
Yes it was too loud. Will do better job editing