Twisted Asphalt

Gravel roads bring sustenance and goods to our homes and markets.
Concrete slabs join large cities and serve as our nations’ veins of commerce.
Urban streets guide us to work on weekdays and parks and malls on weekends.
Yet, there are other roads, cursed by cagers but cherished by bikers.

Sometimes roads curve gracefully along the banks of undulating rivers.
Often they hang precariously from hillsides, skirting tall mountains.
Usually they’ve been forgotten by straight minded highway engineers.
These are the blacktop ribbons we affectionately call Twisted Asphalt.

Twisted asphalt is where, leaning is good and chicken strips are bad.
On twisted asphalt, euphoria is measured in long sweepers and endless twisties.
Twisted asphalt is a traveling anomaly a journey and a destination.
Twisted asphalt is a rider's life-blood, feeding his soul and lifting his spirit.

Ron Haidenger, 2007