{"id":28,"date":"2022-07-08T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:46:55","slug":"ride-report-south-carolina-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/ride-report-south-carolina-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Report – South Carolina to California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday, November 8, 2007<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday, 26 October 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salt Lake City, UT to Riverside, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I rode from SLC, UT to Riverside, California. I woke up feeling much better & to clear skies. I left SLC at 6:30 heading west towards Wendover, NV and the Bonnieville Salt Flats. The ride out of SLC was chilly, and I had a strong cross wind to deal with after I cleared the last mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought it would be neat to visit the place that so many world speed records have been set over the years. So out on the Salt Flats I went, pictures taken, soaked in the moment (only a moment as temps were only in the 40\u2019s).<\/a>The surface was very loose, making it difficult to ride on. I ventured out a mile or so and snapped this picture and headed back to the access road.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After breakfast and gas in Wendover, I went south on 93A through barren northeastern region of Nevada. I rode for close to a 100 miles without seeing anything. No traffic, no houses, no nothing!! There were a couple of nice curvy sections, but only with triple digit speeds.<\/a>I continue to be amazed at how well this motorcycle handles, even full loaded (maybe overloaded) at speed. I was able to run fairly hard through these couple of sections with not so much as a bobble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Route 93A ran into 93, then down to I-15. The beginning of 93 was a pretty enjoyable section with decent curves up and over a couple of short passes.<\/a>It then flattened out into just straight, open, (and boring) road the rest of the way to I-15. Once on I-15, I continued west through Las Vegas (at rush hour), which I survived.<\/a>Between Vegas and Riverside, the pace continued to pick up. A more accurate description would be that I-15 between Vegas and L.A. is a 250 mile drag strip! I rolled into Riverside, CA & my brother-in-law\u2019s house around 8:30p, just 90 mile short of my final destination in San Deigo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Garmin reports 3422 miles on the odometer. So I managed 13 states & 3422 miles in 5 days, not too shabby for my first true long distance ride. The FJR performed flawlessly and is now showing just over 40,000 miles on the odometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoyed this, as I thoroughly did. Now I\u2019ve 52 days of Recruiter\u2019s School to survive. My return trip will be a much more direct, southern route across I-10. I plan to attempt an IBA 50cc for the return. More on that as time nears. Thanks for tagging along. -wr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SC, GA,AL,MS,TN,AR,OK,KS,CO,WY,UT,NV,CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Friday, 26 October 2007 Salt Lake City, UT to Riverside, CA Today I rode from SLC, UT to Riverside, California. I woke up feeling much better & to clear skies. I left SLC at 6:30 heading west towards Wendover, NV and the Bonnieville Salt Flats. The ride out of SLC was chilly, and I had a strong cross wind to deal with after I cleared the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fjr1300","tag-fjr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attacktheroad.com\/atrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}