NorCal holiday loop: Santa Cruz -> Mendocino -> Eurika and back!

[rdprdp01]

That is a fantastic picture and definitely worth the trouble to post. If I hazard a guess, cellular bandwidth may be the responsible party for picture-upload challenges. While riding, uploading pictures directly on the Forum is more convenient. If you are stopped for the night at a hotel or a rest stop, Imgur has some benefits over the native upload feature in the Forum. Please see https://cb1100forum.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=14415. Looking forward to the next stop. David

[Lunchbag]

A really nice report, I'm hoping for more.  What a great place to ride.

[JRD]

Well, I am back home safe in Santa Cruz.

Ride back was uneventful. I played with the idea of taking hw 1 back down until SF, but I was already looking at 6 hours in the saddle and detouring down The 1 would up that to 8.5. I love that ride, but I also love my hips and knees and I made the practical choice to just bomb it down the 101. Parts of that ride were pretty, but mostly it was fast and hot and long.

Not much in the way of scenery to wax on about, but doing 6 hours at 75-80mhp along side cars and trucks did give me another opportunity to appreciate the power and weight and presence of the CB. While freeway riding is no one's favorite, it is a big part of riding in the US, and the CB handles it with confidence-inspiring ease.

I did this loop last year on my Royal Enfield INT 650 and this gave me a direct, 1-to-1 comparison. I am pleased to report that while the RE is a fine bike and was able to handle the ride (after getting about 2 grand in touring farkles, including a Corbin seat), the stock CB was noticeably smoother, more comfortable, and less fatiguing. All in all, I continue to be vary pleased with the upgrade!

I continue to have massive trouble uploading photos to the site. Sorry to deny you my good good vacation picks. I also played with getting some GoPro footage on the ride. Some of it turned out. Now I just need to look into editing it to a useable montage and getting it uploaded. We'll see if that actually happens or not.

[Cormanus]

JRD, glad you had a great trip and enjoyed the CB1100.

I can't say for sure, but I suspect the size of your images is more than 2 megabytes which is the size limit for forum attachments. Maybe consider using a photo hosting site such as Imgur or Postimage. Then you need only post links in the correct format and the pictures will display. It will have the added benefit of not eating up storage space which rdprdp01 has to pay for.

See max's post on using Imgur https://cb1100forum.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=12193

I haven't used Imgur for a while so I don't know whether it's current. If it isn't, let me know and I'll check it out.

[Gone in 60]

Man, just like Pdedse with his ride pics, you're killin' me! I can do all of that in a weekend, if I can get a weekend completely free!

Interesting burger joint... looked that one up and mentally catalogued it for future rides.

[JRD]

Cormanus was right: the photos were too large. I was able to easily reduce the size on iphone by taking a screenshot of the photo and posting that.

                   

[rdprdp01]

Forgive me for the delayed response. Great trip, beautiful photographs, and thanks for going the extra mile on the pictures.