Dual sport offroad motorcycle ride from Nevada City to Downieville.
This was captured using an Innovv C3 action camera that has a dash cam mode. I have provided details for how to mount this on my F800GS motorcycle here: www.stephenfisc...
For this ride I was on a Suzuki DRZ400S, but the concept is the same.
This ride starts on N Bloomfield road near Highway 20 and 49, heading north to cross the south fork of the Yuba River. From there it forks on the Grizzly Hill road to Tyler Foote road. Crossing the middle for of the Yuba at the Tyler Foote Crossing we ride all the way into the old mining town of Alleghany. After going through Hell's Half Acre we reach Pilocene Ridge road. The goal was to take Galloway street (which is really a steep dirt road) down to Downieville. But this road was blocked due to snow and a fallen tree, so we headed west on Pilocene Ridge rd and took Mountain House road toward Downieville. On the way we also stopped at another old mining town: Forest City. After reaching Highway 49, we took this east into Downieville to refuel and lunch.
Next, leaving Downieville, the goal was to reach the town of LaPorte, another 20 miles to the north near Quincy via Saddleback road. But we got stymied about half way near Saddleback mountain due to another large fallen tree, marking the turnaround point for the ride. After another break at Downieville, we headed back to Nevada City via the twisties on Highway 49.
The total ride distance was 114 miles, starting at 8:30am, and getting back to the trailer at 3:10pm.
It should also be mentioned that shortly before reaching the turnaround point at Saddleback Mountain I ended up crashing, after my front wheel washed out in a rut filled with loose rock. The motorcycle gear did its job and I didn't even get scratched. The bike came down on the left side, twisting the position of the handlebar guard and clutch lever and mirror on the bar. This was fixed easily enough by manually twisting it back. But the extra stress ended up stretching the clutch cable just a tad, requiring an adjustment to get the friction point back to where it should be. The starter kill switch on the clutch also got tweaked temporarily causing it to block the starter from working. The bike bump started fine after clearing out the flooding condition, but I was able to restore back to normal after straightening and loosening of some of the cables on the left side of the bar. All this took about 15 minutes before being back on the trail.
For those interested in the Google map of the route, I have posted the tracks from my Garmin 600 GPS here: drive.google.c...
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