Omg! What a find! While biking along highway 2 on a hybrid street/mountain bike, I had noticed a steel gate that was about 75 yards across some property, and was obviously a very old railroad crossing. Got the courage to dart across the property one day and over the tracks and outta sight. Went down over a creek, then up quite a grade, on barely a trail. At the top I came to a 'dig' to prevent motor vehicle travel, popped over it,-- and I swear I heard the angels sing! I had come to a previously unknown network of old logging roads! In an area I thought inaccessible! They went for miles, even across a decent size d.o.t. concrete bridge over a big stream, and actually linked up to the end of a paved road that linked up to a nearby town from which I could loop back and eventually to home. It was the best day ever.!😄
When I was a teenager I rode a 1980 Honda XL125S and one of my favorite places to go were the old railroad tracks where they took up all the rails and ties. What was left was like a racetrack through the wilderness... until I almost rode off a cliff where they'd removed a long bridge over a canyon and didn't put up any signs or guard rails. Fun times!!!
I feel your pain. Pulled a similar stunt in 1980. Wound up swimming my trike to the other side. Thank the lord the old crossing was short and shallow. Pulling a water logged ATC 110 out of the hole after the rotten ties failed was like wrestling a calf. The ballon tires floated but getting up the cut bank was not fun. Good thing I wound up in the little stream because I had pissed myself on the way down. Terrified. My guardian angel deserved a Six of beer and a pack of smokes Weekly when I was a teenager.
Ha, I'm ln bed and I'm doing the same thing. First time I became aware I did that was when I saw the original Italian Job at the movid theatre. Ths _leans_ only happen when I become so engrossed that I am driving the car, riding the bike or flying the plane. Unreal feeling eh! 👍👍👍
I didn't think it was possible to get more envious of how spectacular the area is you live in. But getting to explore it on arguably one of the best dirtbikes ever made? Yep, you topped it.
Yea, the words capitalizations made me think the exact thing until I finally saw that he wasn't going to unveil an old barn find but was talking about a road.
Jeez m8 what I wouldn't give to live in a place like where you live where you go exploring a bit and find abandoned tractors, boats, and even an abandoned highway! Cheers from Texas! You've inspired me to go exploring, mate!
Thanks for taking us along for the ride. It's been a few years since I went riding. My older sister and her husband have a Spyder, trike with two wheels in front and one in the rear. They love it. As they got older getting their Goldwing was too heavy to set up of they laid it down. Have a wonderful holiday season.
I dunno Marty, I saw Hwy One in New Zealand in the late 80's ................ :-P I used to go hunting for old Highways, chunks of abandoned roads, Old road camps etc and its an amazing time capsule sometimes just closed off a service road and left to deteriorate. Love it!
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic again and as always. What an awesome discovery! Wonderful pictures while riding the bike. I definitely don't know how I could miss this video. I'm a subscriber to both channels for years. Weird utube!? Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Found an Abandoned Highway sounds like to an Episode of "The Twilight Zone"...summitted for your approval, a lone motorcyclist turns down an abandoned highway he never noticed before. Come along for the ride as he enters on to the highway that leads to.............. "The Twilight Zone"...DA Da Da DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Come across the pond! There are still many areas like this... and you can help the sane folks not vote for the same mess that Europe has fallen prey to
@@nortons4673 Sorry.. is this irony? lol (joke). Plenty of places like this in the UK too. We still have an ancient network of old rights of way from when animals were driven to market, they are not publicised because farmers try to discourage loonatics in Land Rovers.. but they are still there and still legal rights of way.
Decades ago I could ride all day on old dirt trails in the Santa Cruz Mountains and it seemed like over night, gates, chains and pile of rocks were put across access to every one of them...sigh.
Back in the day , trail bike just roaming around the old tracks , through the woods , any old place there was to go . Oh , for the days of free rein . And not a care in the world . Young , wild and free . Now , stroke , brain damage and totally effed . Can't even ride a pushbike . Happy days though . Was wild . Never give up though just keep on pushing , never be beat . . . Find some more old machines while your out riding Marty . Any old logging gear laying in the undergrowth out there . .
@@monkmodemalik8225 read through the original comment Julian . You will see why I can't ride trails now . Was never bothered by police . Could lose them easily anyway back then . Was Part of the fun . As I said , I was wild person , grew up in one of the roughest toughest areas was nicknamed Beriut , you had to be able to stand your ground or be eaten up . No place for anyone that couldn't . 😋 . Seeing I'm almost at retirement age . Those times are mear memories now . . Wouldn't have had it any other way . Learned lessons in life very quickly from childhood . Everyone had to .back then . Was instilled into us . Couldnt have been raised with a silver spoon that's for sure . No way . Rough and ready , but decency was instilled by our parents . Father was ex military . So his word was law . We stepped out of line you had to take the consequences ,, way it was . That was normal life for us and everyone else who lived there , if anyone needed help , you gave it unconditionally with no reward , a thank you was enough for us . But in father's words , be nobody's fool , we lived by his words , still do to this day always will . Excellent times Excellent people . Totally different era ,
That's in a lot better condition than what I expected it to be! I remember going on a similar stretch of road along the West Coast, about 10 years ago, that had a lot of vegetation growing through it.
When we was younger my wife wanted us to emigrate to New Zealand, instead I decided to go contracting in the Zambian copper mines, we lost all our possessions on an Air crash at Lusaka airport, how I wish I had listened to my beautiful missus :) Just love where you live Marty :)
Probably a section of old State Highway that has been bypassed when the road was upgraded. The old roads would follow the landscape ,no matter how twisty the route. Those sections tend to get bypassed with viaducts and sometimes tunnels.
@@paulg3336 I had a similar experience on a bit of bypassed road here in Maine back in '60's/70's. The old road followed a stream, where the new bit ran straight up and over a hill. As a kid with a single speed bicycle the choice was to go along the old road under the shade of trees in a gentle slope or push our bikes uphill in the full sun. Even then the asphalt on the ld road was cracked and broken with patches of grass and small bushes and quite narrow in spots. I assume there is nothing left by now but random chunks of tar..
It's part of the old Whangamoa Highway to the east of Nelson, replaced by a shorter route. That brought back memories of hooning up and down there on a 750 Katana years ago.
Michigan’s roads are so bad you can be asleep as a passenger in a vehicle once you cross the border into Michigan on I-75 you don’t need anyone to wake you up to let you know your back in Michigan the expressway does it first.
@@peteaplin8324 Asphalt needs to be maintained. Our harsh winter conditions are tough on it, causing pot holes and cracks that require a great deal of costly maintenance and upkeep. The city would rather spend their dollars on pet projects rather than maintaining the roads.
In warm areas, roads basically last forever with little to no use like this one. You really either need heavy traffic or winters to do much road damage.
I thought maybe Taz. Now I realize NZ. Except for the ocean(!) the area reminds me a bit of the mountains of Idaho where I spent the first half of my life riding dirt bikes. (Just discovered your channel today, hence my ignorance of your circumstances.)
its abandoned for that long as he said.. and none is passing by then ofcourse the road still okay.. plus there is less heavy vehicles back then unlike today
Woohoo what a ride! You’ve got a 360, a DB tractor or two and a whopping great grader. Now you’ve got your own racetrack! Nice one Marty!! 👍. My old CR500 supermoto (which now resides in Oz, shipped from the UK!!) would be perfect on your “track” too!
Wow ! The sound of your bike takes me back, oooh, 50 years. Bought my first bike, a trail/road hybrid, a Suzuki 150. Small & light but man, but was it ever fast ! No car could beat it at a Red light Grand Prix ! But at 70 mph, it was scary as hell. Too light. Wife to be hated it deeply. Sold it, of course... Damn !
I'm more of a 4wheeler guy but I had a dirt bike when I was younger too. Havnt rode anything in quite a while and watching the beginning of the video I got like that adrenaline, butterfly feeling you sometimes get when you're accelerating or when the suspensions kind of floats. That was awesome lol
i can tell it doesn't freeze where you live. unused for 30 years, and not a pothole one. every winter we get a whole new crop around here. some of the roads i drive on are just an evil ribbon of patches.
I used to have an old SR500. That had no starter. Kick only. No key. Cable release (compression release) like the old-timers used to have. If you could figure out how to start it, you could steal it. That thumper had torque for yonks. If the chain would have stood it, it could have rolled off a dead stop in high gear (and it had a high sprocket at that). Your Honda has dual valves though, you can hear in the exhaust tone, how much better it breathes than my old SR500. Thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work. בס״ד
You never cease to amaze me. You did have me worried though... hitting those curves, at high speed... on the wrong side of the road... Oops. Then I remembered.
@@MartyT Still , way cool, with all that free energy you generate you need an electric bike to ride on that road. 😃 I sense a further Marty T. project on the horizon .
@@charlesangell_bulmtl Marty would knock one up out of an old washing machine, an old dirt bike he pulled out of a tree..... he may have to buy some nice li-ion batteries.
Or, in addition to barriers, sequential landslides sort of like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OcXCzNjezrM.html New Zealand's Abandoned Road \ The Manawatu Gorge Johnny Hendrikus
Used to travel the forestry roads between kawerau and taupo , dirt road most of the way , although there is a private sealed road south of kawerau towards taupo
When I was a kid in upstate N.Y. back in the late 60's, we had a pretty long stretch of abandoned railroad running through the farmlands and country, the ties, and rails were gone which left the opportunity for teenaged boys to take anything they could make run, up, and down those long perfectly flat trails/roads
The scary part on those old routes is downed trees, washed out roads, gravel and old bridges removed. But wonderful scenery and a great ride. Thanks for the fun. :-)
That highway was still in pretty good condition, looks like their was some logging half way down it at 2:28 in the video being done with a glance of a logging road after the road block bypass.
I never watch driving videos but it's Marty so WTH... added bonus it's overcast and bone-chilling in Canada so seeing a beautiful spring day in New Zealand did some good
At the first junction you turned left, where does right lead to? At the second junction you turned left again, the original road going under that stone bridge ahead, where does it lead to? At the third fork you turned left again, but the right track went uphill, to where? These and other thrilling questions will be answered in future editions of Marty T.
It's funny how this looks exactly like some roads and trails up in the Oregon (USA) coast range that can also be taken to state highway 6, here, in Oregon. The world is so much larger and smaller than I thought.
Must have been a good road at some time bro I see where there was a cats eye near the camera in the last shot or is that poop on the road. Safe travels
