sandctrev
Junior Member
A few of you know my buddy Daniel. We set off last Thursday morning with San Fran in mind. We took the five thinking it would save an hour of slab time. Nope... It was super hot. We took breaks often, about every 30 miles or so. We felt the heat was to much to bear and cut across the 198 to the 101 going through Coalinga. It was a nice stretch of rd. the east half looked as if an atom bomb went off, I think they film apocalypse movies there. The west side of the 198 was nice long rolling hills with a 15 degree temp drop. We traded the heat on the 5 for the wind on the 101.
We made San Jose shortly after that, then cruised through San Fran, and the Golden Gate Bridge on to our destination being Petaluma , Ca. My sister was waiting at the Best Western with a six pack of beer and food. What a lady.
Day 2... We slept in. Then scooted back to the Golden Gate Bridge recreation area. There I was pleased to see some old forts and gun emplacements. They hade the only Nike missile rang left in America, non operational of course. We took some picks, then took off to locate Cycle Gear in down town San Fran. I replaced my scratched helmet visor with a light smoke grey. On ward onto Oakland, and many miles more we found ourselves on a most beuitifull ride. I think Yosemite has to be my new favorite place/ ride on the planet, and I've been all around the world. They have a 35 mph limit in most of the park, and it cost money. But the limit gave me a chance to soak it up. We've got pictures below of our short stop there.
So this day goes on and on and on. We made the discision to ride on
threw the night to our next destination. So leaving Yosemite at 8:30 pm or so, we took the 41 to Fresno. Then the 99 to the 54 through the Mojave to the 395 to the 18 into BigBear. We took power naps when we needed to. Daniel managed to sleep on his bike, I would end up on a bench catching my z's. So that new visor I purchased in San Fran that morning ended up blinding me, I had to ride without it. Going on a big ride, we brought a few randoms, and clear safty glasses were one of them. We made it into BigBear at 730am and slept a few hours at Daniels moms house there by the Village.
Day 3... Woke. Chatted with Daniels mom. We had intentions of hanging out there for the night. We rode into town for some pizza and when I parked Daniel pointed out I had a leak. More like my bike threw up every where. I'm still not fully sure what's up. There were issues that followed along with this leak. I initially thought my radiator hose came loose some how at the zip tie. Further inspection showed me that hose was only secured to the bike by a zip tie. Hose was busted at that spot. I jimmy rigged and bandeged it up and filled it with H20. The other issues. First the fluid that came out of the radiator was brown. I'm thinking the previous owner mixed fluids, there's no rust that I see. Wish I looked into that before. Second, my bike keeps shutting off at stop lights. Temp was actuly reading lower then normal by 10 degrees. So a bit confused on that aspect. Do to the issues we set off after patch work was done. Bike did just fine making it home. But this Fz is near and dear to me, so it's getting some rest while I finger out why it's doing what it's doing.
Sooooo.... Over all. We had a much needed adventure, and now were saftly home. The mileage talley for the ride was 1396.4 miles. My butt is sore, my back is out of sorts, and my wrist hurts. ( need Fz1 bars, and a better seat) We already decided on next years ride. A GrandCanyon loop. But during a cooler part of the year.
We made San Jose shortly after that, then cruised through San Fran, and the Golden Gate Bridge on to our destination being Petaluma , Ca. My sister was waiting at the Best Western with a six pack of beer and food. What a lady.
Day 2... We slept in. Then scooted back to the Golden Gate Bridge recreation area. There I was pleased to see some old forts and gun emplacements. They hade the only Nike missile rang left in America, non operational of course. We took some picks, then took off to locate Cycle Gear in down town San Fran. I replaced my scratched helmet visor with a light smoke grey. On ward onto Oakland, and many miles more we found ourselves on a most beuitifull ride. I think Yosemite has to be my new favorite place/ ride on the planet, and I've been all around the world. They have a 35 mph limit in most of the park, and it cost money. But the limit gave me a chance to soak it up. We've got pictures below of our short stop there.
So this day goes on and on and on. We made the discision to ride on
threw the night to our next destination. So leaving Yosemite at 8:30 pm or so, we took the 41 to Fresno. Then the 99 to the 54 through the Mojave to the 395 to the 18 into BigBear. We took power naps when we needed to. Daniel managed to sleep on his bike, I would end up on a bench catching my z's. So that new visor I purchased in San Fran that morning ended up blinding me, I had to ride without it. Going on a big ride, we brought a few randoms, and clear safty glasses were one of them. We made it into BigBear at 730am and slept a few hours at Daniels moms house there by the Village.
Day 3... Woke. Chatted with Daniels mom. We had intentions of hanging out there for the night. We rode into town for some pizza and when I parked Daniel pointed out I had a leak. More like my bike threw up every where. I'm still not fully sure what's up. There were issues that followed along with this leak. I initially thought my radiator hose came loose some how at the zip tie. Further inspection showed me that hose was only secured to the bike by a zip tie. Hose was busted at that spot. I jimmy rigged and bandeged it up and filled it with H20. The other issues. First the fluid that came out of the radiator was brown. I'm thinking the previous owner mixed fluids, there's no rust that I see. Wish I looked into that before. Second, my bike keeps shutting off at stop lights. Temp was actuly reading lower then normal by 10 degrees. So a bit confused on that aspect. Do to the issues we set off after patch work was done. Bike did just fine making it home. But this Fz is near and dear to me, so it's getting some rest while I finger out why it's doing what it's doing.
Sooooo.... Over all. We had a much needed adventure, and now were saftly home. The mileage talley for the ride was 1396.4 miles. My butt is sore, my back is out of sorts, and my wrist hurts. ( need Fz1 bars, and a better seat) We already decided on next years ride. A GrandCanyon loop. But during a cooler part of the year.
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