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Sunrise in The Coachella Valley at 6:45am before slabbing it 125 miles to meet Johnny in Tujunga:
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Johnny protects his Motronic from gamma rays:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02783.jpg)
Little Tujunga Canyon Road:
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(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02786.jpg)
Johnny fine tuning the Works shock:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02787.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02788.jpg)
Then Sand Canyon and Vazquez Canyon to Boguet Canyon:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02792.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02797.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02802.jpg)
Johnny at the end of Spunky Canyon Road:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02804.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02805.jpg)
Then San Francisquito Canyon Road & Lake Elizabeth Road:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02806.jpg)
To Pine Canyon Road:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02809.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02811.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02817.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02819.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02820a.jpg)
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Heading north to the Gorman Cheevron:
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(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02825.jpg)
Lockwood Valley Road:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02827.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02829.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02830.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02832.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02833.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02834.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02836.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02837.jpg)
How JO washes his bike between car washes:
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Lunchtime on 33:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02842.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02843.jpg)
Elk/smoked bacon burger:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02845.jpg)
JO had the last piece of blackberry pie so there wasn't any left for me:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02847.jpg)
JO racing a dirt bike on 33:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02848.jpg)
Then Cerro-Noroeste Road. This is an absolutely fantastic sweeper road that rides like it was built for K1100s:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02853.jpg)
Heading back to Gorman:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02856.jpg)
Johnny watching a Harry Potter movie on his Droid:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02857.jpg)
Off to more canyons:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02858.jpg)
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(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02860.jpg)
Back at Lake Elizabeth:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02862.jpg)
Soledad Canyon:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02864.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02866.jpg)
This rollover happened right before we got there. Fortunately nobody was too seriously injured:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02871.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02875.jpg)
Aliso Canyon:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02876.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02878.jpg)
The cords were showing on my front tire by now so we headed down Angeles Crest and down I-5 to JO’s place in Anaheim:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02882.jpg)
Mmmmm…. Jumbo tacos:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02883.jpg)
No more turns left in this puppy:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02885.jpg)
I got to see JO’s new truck. Only 1,200 miles:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02888.jpg)
And it shows:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02891.jpg)
JO recently had a set of new PR2s installed about 20 miles away and his old front still had some miles on it so my first stop of the morning for a tire swap was:
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(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02892.jpg)
The nice part of having a used tire put on was that I didn’t have to scrub it in. Thanks, Johnny. I took the Palms to Pines Highway back to Rancho Mirage. I didn’t’ take many pictures since I’ve ridden this road quite a bit:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02896.jpg)
The viewpoint on 74 overlooking The Coachella Valley. Only the granny knot and a little lanesplitting to make it home:
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/2012_day_rides/120311_jo_canyons/DSC02897.jpg)