TLDR;Rode to Portland, got a ticket, now I have to get home...
Well I made it half way, now I just have to get home... Work sent me to Portland this week so I took the opportunity to ride instead of fly.
Here's my two day routes.
I lit out of Sacramento Saturday (yesterday) about 6:30 a.m. and I'll I could think of was the thread on riding in strong winds. Wow the wind sucked bad, 30+ steady with some serious gusts at times. I dropped 12 mpg bucking the wind and had to pit earlier than planned as I was running low. It improved dramatically once I got over the grade on 299 headed toward Burney.
The plan was to head north out of Burney on 89, stop at the Falls and then motor up through Slagger to Tionesta then hook back on through Lava Beds NP cutting back to Klamath Falls. I was an hour and a half out of Burney on Medicine Lake rd and was forced to turn around due to snow covering the road.
I high tailed it back to 299 via Mcarthur and turned north out of Bieber towards the Park. I was thinking I should probably just skip it as it was getting on in the afternoon but what the hey, what am I going to do if I get to Klamath early? I should have listend to that inner voice. I wasn't paying attention and soon found the park popo behind me. I swear I never saw a posted limit and I'm sure I was this guys cherry for writing a ticket as his partner had to show him how to tear it out of the book after he took 20 minutes to figure out how to write it. Pretty much his opening line was "Do you have any weapons or firearms on you or in your bags?" :wow
I'd been in the saddle for about 9 hours at that point and was eager to get some grub and go to bed. My 350 mi day turned into 485 with the re-route.
Today was much better and I skipped Crater Lake, headed straight up 97 to Bend and hooked a left at Hwy 20 through Sisters. It started out cool in the a.m. and I thought I could power through but I pulled off north of Klamath and put the rain/wind liner back on my pants. I used them yesterday when it got chilly outside of Slagger.
Sisters is a nice town, touristy. They had a big rodeo going on.
Traffic was a little heavy at times but it kept moving. I was really looking forward to the road from Detroit up through Ripplebrook to Estacada. It's part of the scenic byway and it did not dissapoint! Lots of sport bikes carving up the road and for long stretches of it out of Detroit not a car anywhere.
Thankfully I didn't have any encounters (or reason to) with LE today. The backroad into Clackamas was nice and from there just motored into Portland.
As I started with, I'm only half way. Next weekend I have to get home. It's the coastal route. Slabbing out of Portland to Grants Pass and then jumping to Crescent City with the first night in McKinleyville. Mattole rd will start the next morning. Depending on how it's going I may work my way back to I5 from Fort Bragg or continue south on Hwy 1. I'm hoping I don't get stuck behind a long line of RV's or have too much marine layer weather.
Well I made it half way, now I just have to get home... Work sent me to Portland this week so I took the opportunity to ride instead of fly.
Here's my two day routes.
I lit out of Sacramento Saturday (yesterday) about 6:30 a.m. and I'll I could think of was the thread on riding in strong winds. Wow the wind sucked bad, 30+ steady with some serious gusts at times. I dropped 12 mpg bucking the wind and had to pit earlier than planned as I was running low. It improved dramatically once I got over the grade on 299 headed toward Burney.
The plan was to head north out of Burney on 89, stop at the Falls and then motor up through Slagger to Tionesta then hook back on through Lava Beds NP cutting back to Klamath Falls. I was an hour and a half out of Burney on Medicine Lake rd and was forced to turn around due to snow covering the road.
I high tailed it back to 299 via Mcarthur and turned north out of Bieber towards the Park. I was thinking I should probably just skip it as it was getting on in the afternoon but what the hey, what am I going to do if I get to Klamath early? I should have listend to that inner voice. I wasn't paying attention and soon found the park popo behind me. I swear I never saw a posted limit and I'm sure I was this guys cherry for writing a ticket as his partner had to show him how to tear it out of the book after he took 20 minutes to figure out how to write it. Pretty much his opening line was "Do you have any weapons or firearms on you or in your bags?" :wow
I'd been in the saddle for about 9 hours at that point and was eager to get some grub and go to bed. My 350 mi day turned into 485 with the re-route.
Today was much better and I skipped Crater Lake, headed straight up 97 to Bend and hooked a left at Hwy 20 through Sisters. It started out cool in the a.m. and I thought I could power through but I pulled off north of Klamath and put the rain/wind liner back on my pants. I used them yesterday when it got chilly outside of Slagger.
Sisters is a nice town, touristy. They had a big rodeo going on.
Traffic was a little heavy at times but it kept moving. I was really looking forward to the road from Detroit up through Ripplebrook to Estacada. It's part of the scenic byway and it did not dissapoint! Lots of sport bikes carving up the road and for long stretches of it out of Detroit not a car anywhere.
Thankfully I didn't have any encounters (or reason to) with LE today. The backroad into Clackamas was nice and from there just motored into Portland.
As I started with, I'm only half way. Next weekend I have to get home. It's the coastal route. Slabbing out of Portland to Grants Pass and then jumping to Crescent City with the first night in McKinleyville. Mattole rd will start the next morning. Depending on how it's going I may work my way back to I5 from Fort Bragg or continue south on Hwy 1. I'm hoping I don't get stuck behind a long line of RV's or have too much marine layer weather.
