405 miles, Dustykat style.

[tugrik]

Road Listings:

Leaving from Custom Chrome
101 South -- Slab. Eh.
25 South -- The boring part

Arrive at Hollister (with detour to Corbin's "Wizards Cafe" for breakfast)

25 South -- Through Hollister. Yay, streetlights.
25 South -- The Good Road, all 60+ "no services' miles thereof. MMMmmmmm.
About 300 feet of 198 East
Peachtree Road -- The nice part with the farms and flat single-road
Indian Valley Road -- When it went downhill and got all chumbly

This puts us into San Miguel.

Vineyard Canyon Road, a nice casual 20 miles to Parkfield (BBQ was closed, dernit)
(Note: This was the primary encounter zone for the Suicide Squrrel Squad)
Vineyard Canyon Road, 20 miles back. Yay, stub. Back in San Miguel again.

46 West
1 North -- The flat and simple part.

Stopped in San Simeon for good Mexican food, then a few miles north for $3.50/gal gas. (ouch)

1 North --The stupid-grin making part known as Big Sur Coastline

Stopped in Big Sur at the "Corbin Commercial" gas station. Took pics to prove to reality_fox it was real.

1 North -- The traffic-laden Carmel/Monterey part
156 East
101 North
Tennant

...ending back where it all began at Custom Chrome, 405 very twisty miles later. Actual time in-motion, according to the GPS: 7h:21m:16s. Time total, 8h:18m.

Comments

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I realize it's some mystical, arcane BikerSpeak, but what does "chumbly" mean? And do you have to make me sit in the sidecar for even asking?

[smackjackal.livejournal.com]

I think its more arcane TugrikSpeak then BikerSpeak. In this case he's using the word to describe the state of the road being old and uneven, less than accecptably smooth.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing mystical. It's just Tugspeak, not bikerspeak. :)

Roads can be "pristine, good, medium, poor, chumbly, chuckholed, torn, broken, gravel, dirt or mud" in order from best to worst. Chumbly means that there's no actual potholes, tears, or missing pavement -- but it's decidedly uneven, patched a lot, and bumpy as all get out. It won't tear your bike up like something that's chuckholed (lots of missing chunks) or torn (large gaps in the pavement), but it's definately not sportbike territory either. Bikes like my GS like chumbly roads. Most roadbikes don't. The GL1800 did okay, though... if a bit hard on the posterior.