Our annual motorcycle trip is around the bend. That means it is time to dig out the maps and start plotting the fun – 250 miles at a time. Time to start brainstorming tour T-shirt designs too!
Climber, salad-lover, photographer, cyclist, and motorcycle rider
How long do you have for the trip? A week? When exactly do you take off?
Five days usually. Depends on the group and the destination.
So something like, say, the Siskiyous and Lost Coast in California is starting to get a little far if you’re planning on 250 miles/day?
We can comfortably do 250-300 miles per day on our sportbikes and still enjoy ourselves. More than that and it’s too exhausting. I think Nicholas might be heading to California in July, though.
There’s a ton of incredible pavement between 199 in Oregon and 36 in California. The weather is usually good there by April, and there should be no issues with snow. Doable if you want to burn down I-5 to get there (or borrow my trailer and trailer the bikes down to Grants Pass?)
Another fun option might be criss-crossing Oregon’s Coastal Range, hopping between 101 and I-5 on the various old roads that are there. Little closer than California… Say, from Corvallis to Waldport via 34, S on 101, East to Eugene via 36… and so on.
How many bikes does your trailer hold?
Three
Oooh! We’ve been wanting to trailer our bikes to Yellowstone for a few years. Maybe later in the summer…
Mmmm, Bear Tooth Pass Highway, yum.
I think the Siskiyous and Lost Coast would be aweseome. We’ve ridden bicycles in the Lost Coast area and I’ve always wanted to go back on a motorcycle. More than 300 miles might be doable if speeds are higher and traffic is less, leading to less mental fatigue. I find freeways particularly draining for more than an hour or two.
Have you guys done a BC loop? Go out along northern WA and then cross over north of Spokane? How many people are on board for this?
Could also work our way along the coast south, cross over toward crater lake and then back up picking up Century Drive near Bend and crossing over west of the crest and working foothills north?
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/10269+Maplewood+Pl+SW,+Seattle,+WA,+USA/46.926756,-123.7157688/43.3566874,-124.2110029/43.1554285,-123.3685653/43.1313801,-122.1298569/43.3215038,-121.7618149/43.625959,-121.8160599/44.0371051,-121.7647173/@44.0369805,-121.5028486,12z/data=!4m25!4m24!1m10!1m1!1s0x549046ab068602cb:0x5a3bf288576ff57a!2m2!1d-122.39342!2d47.510228!3m4!1m2!1d-122.8872692!2d47.406198!3s0x5491b66fb07e861f:0xd6b1aebc6bccbe25!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-123.918475!2d45.1844276!3s0x54eac2de1c815f31:0xf03f8ccf8fa666d9!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!3e0
Only mapped out to Bachelor…that’s the ghist
And a loop https://www.google.com/maps/dir/44.0871976,-121.3032196/44.0822653,-122.7561614/43.7488835,-122.5048492/43.6459613,-121.8076002/44.0351461,-121.7672301/44.0558269,-121.3072526/@44.0723558,-122.2012651,10z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!3e0