FJR Forum Visits Morro Bay, CA

[Toecutter]

Also, trying to keep up with you guys on the FJR vs the HD experience I've had on in the past raises the pucker factor big time.

Don't try to keep up!!!! We don't want nobody puckerin'! Ride YOUR ride. The life (or bike) you save may be your own.

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I took 291 pictures on my ride. There were about 30 or so out of focus so I am currently in the process of uploading 230 or so pictures up to Photobucket. I really need to look into their FTP uploading capability so I don't have to do this select a file at a time and upload 15 at a time stuff.

Anyway, I have enough uploaded to start my ride report. I started riding at 5:15am and it was cold and dark at that hour. I didn't bother taking the camera out for this first leg. Carmel is about 210 miles from my house. I figured I would take it in one tank so I filled up just before hitting the freeway and rode all the way to Carmel without stopping. The reserve was flashing for the last 20 miles. At fill-up I pumped 5.8 gallons so I guess I could have gone another 15 miles before I ran out of gas. It's nice to know that I can ride to somewhere as nice as Monterrey / Carmel on a single tank of gas. Orangevale is a nice place to live I left my house at around 5:10 and arrived in Carmel at 8:18. There just wasn't any traffic. It was great.

I met Highlander in Carmel at the Black Bear Cafe. Breakfast was excellent and the portions were large enough to feed at least two people each. I couldn't finish my meal and that goes against the way I was raised. They make their own sausage and it was excellent. When we went to leave, I broke out the camera and took a shot of Highlander on his new '06. For those that don't know, he used to have one of those slow Cerulean models from '04.

We took off CA-1 and a few minutes down the road the view get really nice really fast.

We road non-stop to Gorda, where we were to meet Khunajawdge.

There were quite a few people burning brush. The smoke from this distance looked pretty cool.

This day resulted in quite a few great pictures, and although this is a bit off level, it's one of my favorite.

more to come...

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

CA-1 isn't all curves. There are the occaisional straights...

Just a little further down, I turn the camera a bit to include the Pacific

When you see hill, after hill, after hill you know the ride is going to be fun! Highlander was riding a great pace for a photographer...not too fast in the straights so I could catch up after dorking with the camera, but was taking the turns at a fairly quick pace and I got to scape the pegs quite a few times.

I tried to get shots that show the road ahead. This is one of a few nice ones in that regard

ahhh

This was the only area between Carmel and Morro Bay that there was construction in progress. The traffic was limited to one lane and there were three cranes right up against the edge of the newly rebuilt road. I can only assume they were being used to lift various retaining wall parts into place. That job might make me a bit nervous. We followed a Honda Goldwing that had a sidecar through this section.

The most cars we ever got behind was 3 cars and they all pulled over for us. The construction zone allowed us to pass about 6 cars waiting to go through the single lane area and that kept the road car free for quite a while!

When I get back from these trips, there are some photos that are obviously mistaken shots where I moved the camera before it took the shot. This is an example of one of those that I think is pretty cool...the view from behind the Vstream

More to follow...

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Another shot of the road ahead

We stopped at Gorda to meet Khunajawdge. He was late and met us about 4 mile South of here. We took time for a cup of coffee and some pics.

We took off and just South of Gorda...

Another road ahead shot...I hope the wiring here is a temporary fix...

We passed Khuna and Highlander pulled over to wait for him

I got some pictures that go well with this guy's forum name...I assume this is Redtail???

Right to Left

Fatnakedguy, Highlander, Khunajawdge

More to follow

 

[bigdolma]

Most excellent shots OrangeVale...very very sweet! Thanks for sharing..

armand

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

RenoJohn on the left and Dcarver

Thanks Bigdolma

A lot of us took pics

People taking pictures of........

...this

TWN in front of Morro's smoke stacks

blackbrick's 89 RS

Lunch is over and people ready to leave. It seemed too soon to me!

I like my FJR so much, I took a picture of it in front of the others

Dcarver in front of the bay

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Most excellent shots OrangeVale...very very sweet! Thanks for sharing..
armand

You are most welcome Armand...this was a great idea you had to ride to Morro Bay for lunch. I have 664.2 miles on my trip meter and I have to say it was a great ride from start to finish. I decided I wanted to take a more direct route home so I went solo and left RenoJohn and Highlander to take 1 back up the coast. I took headed up 1 just a little and took a right on Old Creek Road to 46 to 101 to 198 to 25 to 156 to 152 to 5 to 50 to home

Old Creek Road is a great, great road. It was only about 11 miles and I took a bunch of pics there:

Green hills, nice and curvy

Don't you love it when they warn you about the curves?

Doesn't my bike make this place look nice?

More to follow...

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

This place made me think a picture from another angle was worth the time

I got to 46 and instead of turning right, I headed across the road to see what the sign on the other side of the road said

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I had a long ride ahead of me so I didn't want to take the diversion, but I decided that the next time I was down here I would plan on taking that 14 miles of rough road

The last highlight before 46

46 had some incredible views. There was also a place I didn't think really existed...

I was rolling along and saw a UFO attacking the Army!

Rolling along 101 can be nice

I got to 198 and I love this road...if you ever get the chance, take it from 101 to 5. Look for Coalinga, ca to find it on the map

Is this the definition of rolling hills?

These cows were walking fast. I figured, whoa, a lot of strange stuff is about to happen because the cows are coming home!

This place sure looks nice

I turned left on 25 to go North to Hollister. This wasn't the fastest way home...good! The start of 25 is deceptive...there are plenty of curves on the 60 mile road to Hollister

The scattered clouds created some really incredible scenes

More to follow

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I spied a hawk standing on a rat in the field so I stopped and took some shots.

It flew to a fence post

Then to his branch...

As I got to my bike it flew back to the catch. When I showed up, two vultures that were around took off and went into the distance. When they took off, the hawk left it's prey to get further from me. When it returned to the catch when I was leaving, I was happy to see that I had scared the vultures away and that the hawk would eat without the pressure. The only shot I got of the vultures there is blurred...but the standoff was obviously going on when I arrived.

I rode to Hollister. Put the camera away because I sensed rain was coming. I was right, but it didn't fall for quite awhile and I only had to ride for 40 minutes in the rain. The only gear I had that got wet was my helmet and the shoulders of my jacket were damp...the rest of my gear was dry. We ride awesome bikes!

Here are the remaining shots from 25

I got home at 7:45, 14.5 hours of great riding, great people and seeing this beautiful country one more time...each time is a gift.

 

[dcarver]

I took 291 pictures on my ride. There were about 30 or so out of focus so I am currently in the process of uploading 230 or so pictures up to Photobucket. I really need to look into their FTP uploading capability so I don't have to do this select a file at a time and upload 15 at a time stuff.

O'vale, are you using Flock? Flock allow multiple photo upload. IIRC I've loaded something like 250+ pix at once into my PhotoBucket account.

 

[redtail]

Orangevale, major thanks for the pic's! It's cool to be able to show my wife where I was, and who some of the guys are! P.S. My redtail is on the back of my head, not on the back of my bike!

 

[bigdolma]

Great pics OrangeVale specially the HAWK...any chance you can post the route you took through those hills?

I love this one

armand

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Orangevale, major thanks for the pic's! It's cool to be able to show my wife where I was, and who some of the guys are! P.S. My redtail is on the back of my head, not on the back of my bike!

Oh, you must be Richard? Sorry if I messed up your name...it takes me 3-5 times to meet someone to know them by name

Are you this guy? On the right?

Great pics OrangeVale specially the HAWK...any chance you can post the route you took through those hills?

Sure. I took 1 North

Right on Old Creek Road

Right on 46

Left/North 101

Right 198

Left 25

25 to Hollister

Here's similar ones to the one you like, then the last picture is the same shot without the zoom. I like 12x zoom

 

[JimLor]

For those of us on the East coast and in other places who don't get to meet y'all, who the heck is who - can someone put names to the following two pictures? grazie mille!

Toe - you gotta work on those calves!!

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I'll give it a shot...so many faces were turned the wrong way in the first pic...and I sure don't know everyone by handle/name

Pic 1

Left side of table front to back

? back turned

dcarver

Brenda

?

Redtail (I think)

?

FatNakedGuy

?

?

?

Right side of table front to back

dcarver's GF

Toecutter

OrangevaleFJR (standing)

TwoWheelNut

?

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Khunajawdge in blue hat

Pic 2

Khunajawdge on right in blue hat

blackbrick in center in red

? on left

Pic 3

Toecutter, RenoJohn, Orangevale

 

[HIGHLANDER]

Absolutely awesome pics again OV !!!!!!!! :clapping:

 

[redtail]

Yes, That's my mug, and I'm the same when it comes to remembering names. I swear I'm still floating from this ride!

 

[RenoJohn]

Geeze, ....great pics!

Well, back home ....couldn't get over the summit last night even with 4wd but caught a break this morning. took a while but finally back in Reno.

Wanna thank you guys for the ride to eat, and for the help of this board on finding a temporary home for my bike until the weather allows me to go and get it.

I put a simple weekend ride report together for my v-strom friends ....some of you might find it silly enough to read. also I stole some pics from here so I hope that OK ..let me know if not.

ride report here:

https://11109.rapidforum.com/topic=102472747034

...renojohn

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Geeze, ....great pics!
Well, back home ....couldn't get over the summit last night even with 4wd but caught a break this morning. took a while but finally back in Reno.

I'm glad you made it through. As I type this, it's raining like an SOB here in Orangevale. 80 and 50 are slammed this evening. I hope the Donners aren't travelling.

 

[exskibum]

Geeze, ....great pics!
Well, back home ....couldn't get over the summit last night even with 4wd but caught a break this morning. took a while but finally back in Reno.

Wanna thank you guys for the ride to eat, and for the help of this board on finding a temporary home for my bike until the weather allows me to go and get it....

Damn John -- I didn't get the messages from other board members until this morning (Monday) that you were stuck in Auburn. Woulda been easy to have let you keep the bike in my garage if I'd been in e-mail or telephone contact. (I was with GF all weekend and our cell phones were turned off, sitting on my dresser). Glad you're home ok and got your bike temporarily housed over here, though.

This morning, I heard that you got mixed up with a bunch of women coming back from a cruise, caught a ride with them and had to hole up with them in a motel?!? This story has a silver lining???