Sunrise in The Coachella Valley at 6:45am before slabbing it 125 miles to meet Johnny in Tujunga:
Johnny protects his Motronic from gamma rays:
Little Tujunga Canyon Road:
Johnny fine tuning the Works shock:
Then Sand Canyon and Vazquez Canyon to Boguet Canyon:
Johnny at the end of Spunky Canyon Road:
Then San Francisquito Canyon Road & Lake Elizabeth Road:
To Pine Canyon Road:
Heading north to the Gorman Cheevron:
Lockwood Valley Road:
How JO washes his bike between car washes:
Lunchtime on 33:
Elk/smoked bacon burger:
JO had the last piece of blackberry pie so there wasn't any left for me:
JO racing a dirt bike on 33:
Then Cerro-Noroeste Road. This is an
absolutely fantastic sweeper road that rides like it was built for K1100s:
Heading back to Gorman:
Johnny watching a Harry Potter movie on his Droid:
Off to more canyons:
Back at Lake Elizabeth:
Soledad Canyon:
This rollover happened right before we got there. Fortunately nobody was too seriously injured:
Aliso Canyon:
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:
Mmmmm…. Jumbo tacos:
No more turns left in this puppy:
I got to see JO’s new truck. Only 1,200 miles:
And it shows:
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:
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:
The viewpoint on 74 overlooking The Coachella Valley. Only the granny knot and a little lanesplitting to make it home:
