More Coastal Back Road Sights

[Wild Will]

Wish you were here!


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[1MPH]

Great photos Will. Thanks.
Looks like a nice place to clear out the cobwebs.
Have to get up there, Have to get up there, Have to get up there, Hav......

[Deans BMW]

Will, every time I see your pics or visit, I wish like hell that I would of bought some acreage up there in the early 70's, it was beautiful then, it is beautiful now.

Thanks for the great pics.

[Lewis' RT]

Will,

Beautiful area, fantastic roads, and great photos !

Pick the best time, I would like to ride some of that with you :045:

Lewis

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[Wild Will]

Lewis, April through November! I'd say September and October are the best of the best, but so are all the rest, really. Today was sunny and 64, and as long as you get back by 4, you're still in sunlight. Love to show you around!

[geechie]

Just great, Will.

That damn road must be a blast. I am in envy.

George

[Sir Limpsalot]

Great pics. What a beautiful area and what a cracking road.

I notice that all your recent stuff features the GS, do you still have the KTM?

(I'm not really nosey, it's a thirst for knowledge!)

Si.

[Dirty Doug]

Will,
Someday!!!!!!!!!!!!

K-Rider
Doug

[Wild Will]

I notice that all your recent stuff features the GS, do you still have the KTM?Si.

Si, I got rid of the KTM awhile ago. I loved the machine, but it was hyper powerful and something came over me whenever I rode it. I figured the best thing for me to do was to cut my power intake, lest I end up at the bottom of a thousand foot gulch.

The spoked wheels also bothered me; there is no road service out here and the wheels are notorious for not allowing the tire bead to pop. I'm a veteran of many flats on tubeless wheels, and that's the way to go for me. Quick and easy.

That said, I'd buy another Adventure, but it'd have fuel injection and ABS. On tight roads, where you never know what'll be around the next corner (cow, stopped truck, downed tree, boulder that rolled down from above, downed bike - my friend hit one recently and broke his coccyx; now he wears a bag and his wedding tackle is busted, but he's alive), I'd say ABS is a very good friend indeed.

My next bike will probably be a smaller, less displacement play bike: KTM 690 Duke, Street Triple (I'm riding one tomorrow!!!) or 800GS. Thing is, I have my 1100GS so well fettled that I can't fault the machine. It just works, year after year. I'm thinking I'll have San Jose BMW rebuild my Ohlins this winter. I'll keep it anyway, so I'll have a loaner for when you come over to wine taste and tour in the Napa Valley!

[DarthRider]

Cool...!
I look forward to the "in-person" tour, my friend !

[dee jones]

Will, thanks for the pics. Looks like you found a nice piece of madrone?
Must have had a good time wrestling that one in.
Hopefully I'll make it out sometime this year. Got some work to do in Fieldbrook. So a trip down to Mendiccino is in store.

[Steve Carlton]

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That sure looks like a path I've walked up a hundred times. When I was around 8-10 years old I was in the Indian Guides. My name was "Running Deer." I was probably the oldest in the tribe, so I got the lead roles in skits we'd perform at Camp Gualala. I was Batman one year and Captain Parmenter (from F-Troop) another. My acting heyday...

[TorqueMonsterMT-01]

Will,
Cool!

Do it again!

[Wild Will]

Dee, I'll have a bike for you! That madrone log would not split at the butt, despite twin steel wedges; too heavy to place in the hydraulic splitter. I think I'll just saw it into stove-sized chunks. Despite the hard work, I'll heat with wood until the government makes it a crime. It's coming.

Steve, you got me laughing with your tales of derring-do at Camp Gualala.
Running Deer! Bet you never thought you'd be runnung the ridges faster than a deer one fine day in the future.

I'm going the the city today (4 hour round trip) to ride the Street Triple. The competition for buying some of these bikes is fierce, and test rides are just not common out here. The bike's already sold, but the salesman's a friend of mine.
There's no sound like that 675 triple with a good exhaust system, on the pipe!

[Steve Carlton]

Going to Munroe's? I know Nick and Rory there. Very cool place. I had a deposit there for a Brutale for about a year before it finally arrived. Changed my mind by then, but months later they had a demo and it was a HOOT! I wouldn't mind getting a 750 someday "cheap" as a little local ripper. I'll bet that Street Triple is awesome...

[Wild Will]

Cancel please.

[bmwdave52]

Seeing pics like yours makes me feel guilty that I don't ride those roads more often than I do.
What a beautiful area.

[fganger]

WW,

I'm so stinking jealous. Where you live is one of the 4 or 5 areas Bonnie and I considered when we left Alaska. If it wasn't for wanting to sail, in calmer waters, we would be there now.

However, I'm glad you are, now we have someone to visit. :)

Stinkin' Frank

[Rchop]

Great pics Will. I lived in NorCal back in the 70's. I do miss those roads and the vineyards when they were local attractions only.

Randy

[socalrob]

Will, how far from Cal State Sonoma are you? My oldest Erika applied there this year. I think she is going to UO (Eugene) though.

[Wild Will]

Rob,
2 hours. That's where my youngest is in school. The weather is FAR better here than in Oregon, and we need pretty coeds more than Oregon does...
Come on, Rob, exert some paternal influence, then we can play on the gods' own highways together.