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R.I.P. Our Motorcycling Friend
California Hwy 190 runs from just west of Porterville, CA to the western border of Nevada, near the town of Beatty. It's a glorious road in that it traverses a diverse terrain ranging from the Great Central California Valley, to the rugged southern Sierras, onto the Western Divide Highway, over Sherman's Pass and all the way down into the great basin of Death Valley. Hell, so Mighty is 190, that it even has it's own website! And here's a Google Earth shot of the road in question, showing about half of the route filmed:
The focus of the following videos is the Sierra section running east from Springville, CA and concluding at about 7,000' elevation near the mining & trading outpost of Ponderosa, CA. What you are viewing is approximately 26 miles of moderately paced riding condensed into about 13 minutes of video. In reality, the filming took about 45 minutes. Forty-five glorious, blissful, soul calming minutes, at that.
Anyway, I'd been intending to do this ride for a while with O'vale, so these are dedicated to his spirit. And yeah, Part II is at double speed only to capture as much of 190 as possible. An unintended benny of double speed: The FJR with Leo Vinces, sounds awfully similar to an F1 V-10. B)
Enjoy these as much I enjoyed the ride.
The Mighty 190, Part I
The Mighty 190, Part II
The focus of the following videos is the Sierra section running east from Springville, CA and concluding at about 7,000' elevation near the mining & trading outpost of Ponderosa, CA. What you are viewing is approximately 26 miles of moderately paced riding condensed into about 13 minutes of video. In reality, the filming took about 45 minutes. Forty-five glorious, blissful, soul calming minutes, at that.
Anyway, I'd been intending to do this ride for a while with O'vale, so these are dedicated to his spirit. And yeah, Part II is at double speed only to capture as much of 190 as possible. An unintended benny of double speed: The FJR with Leo Vinces, sounds awfully similar to an F1 V-10. B)
Enjoy these as much I enjoyed the ride.
The Mighty 190, Part I
The Mighty 190, Part II
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