The Texas Hill Country is home to many twists and turns that are perfect for almost any ride. The biggest limiting factor is the speed limits and how fast your motorcycle can go. To mitigate the potential dangers of riding well below the speed limit, TxDOT provides an open data portal using ArcGIS that gives information on maximum speed limits, road material, and other pertinant data that one could want.
https://gis-txdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/txdot-speed-limits/
We found this tool to be extremely useful since our ride will be limited by the two Honda Navi's that would be in our group (110CCs) and my TW-200.
So we mapped out our ride using the TxDOT website for the appropriate roads to accomodate our bikes (some roads are just unavoidable) and built our road trip on google maps.
The next step was to use the "add stop" function in google maps on our phones to have the actual step-by-step directions in real time. This was a little time consuming, but man was it worth it. We were able to safely ride from Horseshoe Bay to Inks Lake State Park and even got to get out and swim at the Devil's Waterhole!
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