Quote Originally Posted by AKRoadie
Hello! I am new to road bike riding in AK. I've done some mountain biking - and am familiar with the off-road areas - but where do you get in the good road miles. Turnagain Arm is a little scary to me, with all the tour buses and motorhomes.
I live 126m south of Anchorage. Anyone out there participating in the upcoming Clean Air Challenge?
You're south of Anchorage -- Seward? Homer? I'm an Anchorage native, my folks are in Eagle River now. I've brought my hubby and his bike home with me on a couple of occasions. He *really* enjoyed riding south toward Seward, motorhomes or no there are wide shoulders and the highway is quite nicely paved! Or it was a few years ago, I know what multiple Alaskan winters can do to good blacktop. I think I picked him up in Portage on the way down and just short of Portage on the way back from Seward.

I guess it seems to me that with the tourists driving so erratically and/or slowly, stopping for Dall sheep constantly, the other motorists tend to be fairly alert and perhaps appreciative of your being less wide-assed than the RVs.