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Anyone interested in an all day drive up to south-west Wisconsin's famous Alphabet Soup twisty roads?

I frequent these twisties with my sport bike and regularly lead rides from the Chicago area and after scouting out the roads this spring, I'd like to take a couple Mini's up there to enjoy the variety of twisties. There's real tight sections that are perfect for our cars and big flowing sweepers to be taken flat out in 3rd



Since it is quite far away (we'll be south-west of Madison near the town of Spring Green, WI), this will be an all day drive, totalling 500 miles round trip. 100 miles of interstate slab to get there, 300 miles of fun and 100 slab back.

I'm looking for around 5 Mini's total. Small group because there's a lot of direction changes and a bigger group will easily get spread apart and lost. If more than 5 are interested, I'd like a second leader to step up with a Garmin GPS so that I can give you the route and we'll meet up at designated places along the way.

This will be a "spirited" drive, yet not totally hooning it. Speed limits of 45 mph and below will be strictly obeyed and 55 and above is WOT

Date: July 18, 2009
Meet Location: New Glarus, WI, BP at the intersection of WI-39 and WI-69.
Meet Time: 10:30 am
Roll out: 11:00 am

These are some videos I shot in the spring. We wont be hitting all these roads, since some are too far away.













and it's called the Alphabet Soup because this is what the directions look like:




- Jay