Who Rode Today?

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Aaaaaahhhhhhh finally! The temps were below 90 so I headed out for a 200 miler. I may take the Z out mañana. Traffic was fine except for a one lane pilot car section but it wasn’t very long. Managed 37.5 mpg even with a few runs up to 140. What’s fun is to wind er up slowly to around 8 grand and short shift in every gear and (all of a sudden) I’m doing a buck forty! The route I took has several very long empty straights that allow any speed that suits me.

My first stop about 70 miles away is the Cathey’s Valley Cemetery on Hornitos Road. Yep, a cemetery. Solitude at its best, with shade trees too. I’ve stopped at a number of them in my travels and some have grave stones dating in the 1600 and 1700s! Saw the skeletal remains of a beef critter along the road too. Never seen one so complete and so picked clean.

 

[rd99]

Aaaaaahhhhhhh finally! The temps were below 90 so I headed out for a 200 miler. I may take the Z out mañana. Traffic was fine except for a one lane pilot car section but it wasn’t very long. Managed 37.5 mpg even with a few runs up to 140. What’s fun is to wind er up slowly to around 8 grand and short shift in every gear and (all of a sudden) I’m doing a buck forty! The route I took has several very long empty straights that allow any speed that suits me.

View attachment 1639800View attachment 1639801View attachment 1639802View attachment 1639803My first stop about 70 miles away is the Cathey’s Valley Cemetery on Hornitos Road. Yep, a cemetery. Solitude at its best, with shade trees too. I’ve stopped at a number of them in my travels and some have grave stones dating in the 1600 and 1700s! Saw the skeletal remains of a beef critter along the road too. Never seen one so complete and so picked clean.View attachment 1639804View attachment 1639805

Great looking road,Busa countryif you have an off road excursion out there in BFE you might as well be on Mars.

 

[ROADTOAD1340]

Decided I would use the Busa for carving the traffic today instead of the car . Had to go into known congested areas for a urgent errand . Here is a quick couple of pics I took of her in an barren urban ghetto , industrial park last stop before return home . Actually missed 2 excellent days riding this week , because my boy ( dog ) got a urinary tract infection , scared the chit out of me when I seen him pissing blood . Had to get him off to the vet and good news , he is on the mend now .

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Great looking road,Busa countryif you have an off road excursion out there in BFE you might as well be on Mars.

You’re right. Maybe I’ll head into the Park where the tall evergreens are. Should be even cooler up high.

 

[rd99]

You’re right. Maybe I’ll head into the Park where the tall evergreens are. Should be even cooler up high.

no shortage of interesting rides near you for sure.

 

[michael parris heuberger]

Aaaaaahhhhhhh finally! The temps were below 90 so I headed out for a 200 miler. I may take the Z out mañana. Traffic was fine except for a one lane pilot car section but it wasn’t very long. Managed 37.5 mpg even with a few runs up to 140. What’s fun is to wind er up slowly to around 8 grand and short shift in every gear and (all of a sudden) I’m doing a buck forty! The route I took has several very long empty straights that allow any speed that suits me.

View attachment 1639800View attachment 1639801View attachment 1639802View attachment 1639803My first stop about 70 miles away is the Cathey’s Valley Cemetery on Hornitos Road. Yep, a cemetery. Solitude at its best, with shade trees too. I’ve stopped at a number of them in my travels and some have grave stones dating in the 1600 and 1700s! Saw the skeletal remains of a beef critter along the road too. Never seen one so complete and so picked clean.View attachment 1639804View attachment 1639805

Hi, In New Port RI. there are graves from the 1600 to.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Hi, In New Port RI. there are graves from the 1600 to.

Yeah I figured that since the majority of the country’s population was on the east coast before the west. BTW the fires in NorCal and now NW Nevada covers over a half million acres, almost as big as RI.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

I got in almost 200 miles today on the Z down hiway 49, the Golden Chain hiway and up into the Park via Greeley

Hill and 120. Man what a road, newish clean pavement and midday on a weekday, very little traffic. I’m still amazed at how many downed trees are left on the forest floor adding to the fuel if a fire starts. There must be thousands upon thousands of these downed trees all over. Hiking would be a real chore having to climb over logs every 20 feet. I realize that (some) downed trees are needed for reforestation but not thousands of them. Piss poor park management IMO as expensive as it would be to remove some of them, the cost of a raging forest fire would be more. None of the other parks have that much wood on the ground so WTH? Oh, @ 6,192’, the highest I got today the temp was 69! Almost…chilly!

 

[Dai.]

First proper ride with the new dash and added goodies, participated in a group ride but didn't want to do coffee stops i split and done my own thing. Dash is clear as day even with the sun hitting it and the bike felt nimble as ever.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Got in 130 miles today and took a different road starting out that connects with the area I usually ride in. Waaaay off the beaten path. This is all rolling hills dotted with ranch houses in some sections. As I ride the area is full of oak trees and then all the trees disappear and it’s all barren hills for miles. Going on the trees and rock fences come back into sight with a few ranches on either side of the old road, Ben Hur Rd, between Raymond and Ahwanee, two tiny lil communities.

I stopped to get pics of this amazing gateway fence to an old ranch house, made almost entirely of horse shoes welded together. The owner was checking her mail from her golf cart and drove over to chat. She was ANCIENT! No foolin, a tiny lil old lady with crutches in her golf cart. She and her late husband bought the 120+ acre place with a year round creek ages ago and he built the fence. She lives there alone with a couple dogs as the horses they used to raise are gone. I wonder if she’d sell me a few acres along the creek, way back on the property…maybe I shoulda asked. Old oak trees are everywhere.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Just to be factual, it wasn’t Ahwanee it was Mormon Bar where Ben Hur Rd meets hiway 49. Not that anyone here ever visits….

 

[rd99]

102 mile ride tonight

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

102 mile ride tonight
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Without a headlight?

 

[rd99]

Without a headlight?

 

[Dopey]

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Why the added weight back on??

 

[rd99]

Why the added weight back on?

just for night riding to enjoy the cooler temps.

 

[Cantab]

Got called in for O/T tonight did a few xtra KMs , made the most of it as we are in lockdown.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Sorry for you (ride restricted) guys but I’m taking off in the morning for a four day loop thru the Avenue of the Giants off 101 in NorCal and riding back down hiway 1 beginning at the Leggett cutoff. Tim’s (Pashnit) recent pics lit my fire. Been awhile since I’ve been up there so I’m looking forward to it. I’ll take the Z as it hasn’t seen the ocean yet and the Busa is quite familiar with hiway 1. Total miles should be under a thousand. There’s a lot of straight road freeway riding where I’ll miss the Busa but I’ll still have fun on the coast hiway.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Today was almost all multi lane freeways and Interstate 5. Visited with my son just south of Santa Rosa off 101. Tomorrow the Avenue, a couple hundred miles north. Lots of traffic today but most everyone was moving along nicely. Wind was terrible but the Z handled it well. I was almost taken out as I was passing a pickup on I5. Just as I reached his bumper he drifted into my lane. I laid on the Denali Sound Bomb I installed and he jerked back into his lane. As I sped past I saw a spiral notebook in his left hand and a pen in his right. WTH was he doing, in traffic, at speed, on an interstate, writing his memoirs? That horn was a nice upgrade.

 

[Kiwi Rider]

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