Santa Cruz Mountains Motorcycle Day Trip

This is a short and sweet motorcycle mini-tour around California Santa Cruz Mountains. It's less than 4 hours (Google Maps estimate), but in fact in can be done in about 3 hours. The roads are hand-picked for their turns and twisties, so difficulty is intermediate-hard. Length: about 120 miles (200km).


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• Bear Creek Rd
• Jamison Creek Rd
• Smith Grade Rd
• Bonny Doon Rd
• Swanton Rd
• Cloverdale Rd
• Pescadero Creek Rd
• Alpine Rd
• Page Mill Rd
• Moody Rd

Southern California 2 Day Mini-Tour

Day 1: Santa Clara - Pismo Beach (~450 miles / 11 hours)


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Day 2: Pismo Beach - Santa Clara (~260 miles / 8 hours)

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Places to see. Roads to ride.

1. Rocky Mountain National Park.
2. Devil's Tower National Park.
3. Sturgis.

High Sierra Pashnit Tour Day 3

Last day of the Sierra Nevada Pashnit tour took us from the West Walker Motel (in Walker, CA) to Georgetown, CA. We then continued a little tour to Quincy.

Roads followed:

• Monitor Pass
• Alpine Village
• Hwy 88
• Mormon Emigrant Trail
• Silver Fork Rd to Kyburz
• Hwy 50 West
• Ice House Rd
• Big Hill Lookout
• Wentworth Springs Rd
• Georgetown (Chinese restaurant lunch)
• Hwy 193 West to Hwy 49
• Hwy 89 to Quincy

Distance: 320 miles / 515 km
Duration: 8h30m
Difficulty: Super twisty
GPS Routes: kml / gpx
Interactive map: http://www.mitza.net/highsierra2011


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High Sierra Pashnit Tour Day 2

Day 2 of the Pashnit motorcycle tour Sierra Nevada. From Bridgeport to Walker taking passes Sonora and Ebbetts.

Roads:

• Hwy 395 to Hwy 108
• Sonora Pass Hwy 108
• Middle Camp / Sugar Pine Rd
• Big Hill Rd
• Yankee Hill Rd into Columbia
• Parrots Ferry Rd to Hwy 4
• Ebbetts Pass to Hwy 89
• Monitor Pass to Hwy 395
• to Walker, West Walker Motel

Distance: 200 miles / 320 km
Duration: ~5h30m
Difficulty: Advances (super twisty)
GPS Route: kml / gpx
Interactive map: http://www.mitza.net/highsierra2011


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High Sierra Pashnit Tour Day 1

Day 1 of Sierra Nevada motorcycle tour. We officially started in Manteca and ended up in Bridgeport.

The roads we took:

• Hwy 120 East to Hwy 108
• La Grange Rd
• Bonds Flat Rd
• Hwy 132 to Coulterville
• Hwy 49 (The Little Dragon) to Mariposa
• Hwy 140 to Yosemite National Park (lunch at Ahwanee Restaurant)
• Big Oak Flat Rd to Hwy 120
• Tioga Pass to Mono Lake
• Hwy 395 to Bridgeport

Distance: ~300 miles / ~500 km
Duration: 7 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate / Advanced (super twisty)
GPS Route: kml / gpx
Interactive map: http://www.mitza.net/highsierra2011


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Day Trip to Hwy 25

Motorcycle ride to Hwy 25, Holister to Hwy 198 then back.

GPS Route: kml / gpx


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Picking up Hans and Albert from San Francisco

Going to SF to pick up Hans and Albert from Eagle Rider. Then we did a small motorcycle loop around the Peninsula, visiting Alice's Restaurant for lunch.

Distance: ~150 miles / 240 km
GPS route: kml / gpx


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Pashnit Grand Tour - Day 2

http://www.pashnittours.com/tour_4.html

Approx: 300 miles, 11 hours

Part 1: Cambria - Forest Route 23S16

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Part 2: Forest Route 23S16 - Three Rivers

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Overnight in Comfort Inn, 40820 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA. 559-561-9000

VMware (Player) Port Forwarding

As I said in one of my previous posts, I _love_ VMWare Player (much more than its Workstation brother). There is no surprise, I want to have some neat port forwarding (from HOST machine to VMWare).

I found the following information on http://asunix.tufts.edu/howto/vmware/portforwardingWin7:

Step 0: If using VMware Workstation, continue to Step 1. However, if using VMware Player, you need to extract the `Virtual Network Editor' from the installer via the following command:

$> VMware-player-setup.exe /e .\extract

Go into `extract' -> `network' and copy `vmnetcfg' into the VMware Player directory before you use this tool. Once `vmnetcfg' is in the VMware Player folder, you can launch this tool to configure the NAT port forwarding.

Step 1: Open the Virtual Network Editor ( either from Workstation or launch `vmnetcfg' )

Step 2: Choose `VMnet8' from the interface list, change the Subnet IP at the bottom of the panel to `192.168.192.0' then and choose `NAT Settings...' from the VMnet Information panel.

Step 3: Ensure that the Gateway IP is set to `192.168.192.2' and then choose `Add' under the Port Forwarding panel.

Step 4: Fill in the port map information with the following data:

Host Port: 22

Type: TCP

Virtual machine IP address: 192.168.192.100

Virtual machine port: 22

Description: SSH

Step 5: Apply all settings and close out of the Virtual Network Editor.

Santa Cruz mountains route

Redwood Retreat Rd (to Mt Madonna Rod) - closed, private with signs of no trespassing, but gorgeous drops, redwoods
Summit road - closed, private, unpaved portions, trespassing alerts, dirt, potholes


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Citate cu sens

Urmatoarele sunt citate de pe http://2roti2picioare.blogspot.com. Mi s-au parut ca 'fac sens' asa ca le-am adunat aici:

"cu siguranta peretii ar spune multe povesti daca ar putea [..]. Gasesc semnaturi vechi si chiar fotografiez cateva din 1845. Este reconfortant de stiut ca eram cel putin la fel de prosti si atunci ca si acum. Macar nu ne-am tampit intre timp." - http://2roti2picioare.blogspot.com/2011/08/contraste-umane.html

"ne miscam foarte disciplinat, Pomo care conduce sirul merge regulamentar, depasim pe rand si refacem formatia, ascult “Bohemian Rhapsody” si ma gandesc ca, daca as vinde clipe din viata mea, astea ar fi foarte scumpe." - http://2roti2picioare.blogspot.com/2011/08/contraste-umane.html

Breaking-in my new front tire

Got a new front tire - Bridgestone BT023-GT. Time to break it in. What a fantastic tire it is. I love the handling. It feels like it's a whole different bike.


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