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Gary856 said:
Still on Santa Rosa Creek Rd

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Beautiful! That is such a fun road! Your post reminded me of a ride I did there years ago, and I went looking for the photos. Turns out it was 11 years ago today that I was there...

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WoodsChick said:
Turns out it was 11 years ago today that I was there...
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I only learned how to ride a motorcycle 10 years ago. :laughing


I had never gone south on Hwy 1 past Nacimiento-Fergursson on a bike before, so yesterday I decided to ride all the way to Morro Bay. It was a nice ride and didn't feel too far going there.

While in Morro Bay around 3pm looking for a place for lunch, the engine stumbled and died. I thought I ran out of gas, and at that moment a car pulled next to me and people in it yelled that my bike was leaking gas "big time" on the left side, below the tank. My heart sank, since that was about the farther point from home during the ride. I parked the bike, stripped off my gear, googled nearby moto repair shops but many were closed for the weekend, and none was nearby. Good thing the tank was almost dry, so the leak stopped after about a quart of gas leaked out. I peeked under the tank and saw a fuel line detached from the fitting; the fuel line is old and its end is cracked. I wiggled the line and the spring clip back onto the fitting, and there were a few drops of gas left to get the bike started and limped to a gas station a few blocks away to gas up. Thankfully the line held and I was able to ride 190 miles home from there.

I was lucky that this didn't happen on a rural road with no cell signal, or on the freeway far from a gas station at night. This bike ('06 950SM) runs great but definitely needs some maintenance update.
 
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yeah, it isn't as much fun as my SV or supermoto but it's VERY cheap to ride, and comfy.

I'm mostly trying to ride it a bunch so that I'm ready for Alaska this summer.
 
Pearl Rd north of Eagle. Most of it was reasonably dry, but as the altitude increased it turned to mud, then snow and ice. This bike really does not like mud.
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...And it really, really dislikes snow and ice. :wow
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Riding in the snow is nuts, but if I lived where it snowed 3 months a year I may go nuts too. :laughing


Little Uvas

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Bear Creek

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Two turns later... what the hell?!

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China Grade - especially beautiful in the rain.

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