Fall Color Tour in the Nevada/California Serrias

RSL · Jun 18, 2017

Working on assembling past favorites and a whole bunch of new backroads to explore in the Sierras.

Checking the Butler Maps, I have a number of additional roads they haven't rated.

Pashnit doesn't have these either.

Looking forward to the fall colors.

RSL · Jun 18, 2017

Having KonTour remake the OE Hyperstrada seat this week. Expensive but well worth it in the past.

Should make days of any length free of squirming.

Will post photos when I get it back.

BadToTheBown · Jun 18, 2017

Please tell me more about your proposed tour...I'm interested, would be my first time touring west...

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

BadToTheBown said:
Please tell me more about your proposed tour...I'm interested, would be my first time touring west...

Your being in New Mexico understand how some states love speed limit signs. NM is bad about super low speed limit changes for every corner.

California, on the other hand, is 55 mph. Period.

Great Sierra roads like this are 55 mph.

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

Elevations from the above ride:

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

So many fun backroads where the traffic is such that you have plenty of time for group photos:

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

The above ride:

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

Roads for this year.

Cdnpuck · Jun 19, 2017

RSL said:
So many fun backroads where the traffic is such that you have plenty of time for group photos:

LOVE this pic. Two thumbs up

kuksul08 · Jun 19, 2017

Funny the GS is hardly bigger than the Hyper. You think of it as such a big bike, but they are both slim compared to the big tourers.

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

Just like every year, there is a solid plan, then we end up riding a different ride because of circumstances. Forest fires have affected a number of years. Rainfall affects mostly spring rides. We used to come over in October until snowfall affected the passes too much.

RSL · Jun 19, 2017

The only difference between the length of the GS and the Hyperstrada is the added diameter of the front wheel. Thereabouts.

The seat to footpeg distance is similar too.

The Hyper just feels so much smaller.

BadToTheBown · Jun 19, 2017

OK, I'm interested. I have a mule tag in October. What's the window you're thinking of riding in? How many days?

RSL · Jun 20, 2017

I don't know about you guys, but I think state highways like this, and the 55 mph speed limit, are perfect for motorcycling bliss.

RSL · Jun 20, 2017

Or, even backroads like these with the 55 mph speed limit too.

RSL · Jun 20, 2017

Am I the only one who takes hundreds of ride photos on each long ride?

It's time consuming to carry real cameras, to take the time to stop and make multiple ridebys to get the best photo, but we all think it is worth it.

Why we also take the time on each ride to get "Captain Jack" photos with carefully aligned bikes.

MartyGarrison · Jun 20, 2017

One of those pics looks like Sonora Pass

RSL · Jun 20, 2017

The main Sierra passes are recognizable by most, it's the lesser known, and barely traveled, roads that are the most enjoyable.

MartyGarrison · Jun 20, 2017

I grew up in Modesto and we went up to the Sierra all the time. My father was a avid camper. In the early 60's that creek that runs up Sonora Pass was full of old Model T's and the like. For years folks would drive their old junk cars up the pass and run them into the creek.

Fall Color Tour in the Nevada/California Serrias

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