My Angeles Crest, CA ride today...(pics)
 

**Just copied and pasted from our local board, should still be entertaining**

Woog, Asmith, Pat and I head out from Vegas around 0730 for a trip out to Cali. For Pat and I it was just a day trip, Woog and Asmith are staying the night and riding some more tomorrow.

So we get to Baker in 40 minutes. Victorville in about an hour from Baker. We get some food and head out to Angeles Crest. I have never been there before so I follow Woog through it. Holy shit, this road is so sick. It's literally well over 50 miles of smooth twisties!

So there we were...50 miles deep into Crest, 85 miles on that tank of gas. And we run into this!

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And Asmith's fuel light is already on! Something's wrong if it comes on after 85 miles. And there's a gas station about 15 miles PAST that gate blocking the road. Anyways, might as well take a pic...

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There's no way in fuck Aaron (Asmith) is gonna make it back to a gas station if we turn around. Improvising had to happen.

Woog, how'd you get over there???

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Wait, how did we all get over there??? And manage to pick up a guy on a VFR...

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Woog went first, did some scouting and reported back with the news. "There's a trench in the road." Fuck!! "Can we cross it, woog?" "Maybe. There's a patch of really soft sand we all might be able to walk our bikes over, if we all help move one bike at a time." That's pretty much our own option. Fuck it, let's go...

Bam! We get to the trench and the sand's not looking the greatest. It's right at the edge of a 3-foot-deep trench. And just as wide across, just about. They're all over there reinforcing the sand with some nearby sand bags. I'm thinking "There is now way I'm risking my bike through that shit." Woog mentions laying these road signs nearby across the gap and nobody really did anything until I had that thought. So I grab the sign and lay one down, and the other on top of it. Success!!

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We all get over real easy. So we're hoping that's the worst of it and the ONLY reason why it was closed. As we proceed down the Crest, there's several spots of more road construction going on. Workers and everything were there...we got some pretty funny looks, with them knowing there's a fat trench in the road, lol.

One of the foreman warns us about the CHP at the exit. Sure enough, there certainly was. We get nabbed shortly after the exit.

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The best part of this story is the ticket we got. "Failure to obey road sign." Hahahaha, we fucking used one as a bridge! The cop obviously must not've realized where we came from, bypassing gates and bridging it over trenches. Not sure what the fine total will be, it can't be too bad though...

Great fucking ride/experience today, boys! Let's do it again real soon!

lol

LOLOLOL....sportbike punks. hahahahah

Could of went with you guys....and I could have told you ACH was closed. What was the VC number on the ticket? Cost of a generic Failure to Obey Traffic Sign is 146 bucks, but since it was a Construction Zone, they may double it. Need the VC number tho to be sure.

Did the CHP chew you out? CHP are dicks up there. I'm sure he chewed you guys out.

:lol

Well shit then. Had he known what we went through to get to him, we'd probably be in a holding cell, lol. He didn't chew us out at all. Just didn't believe me when I told him we didn't have a choice, fuel-wise (the truth). I still don't think he realized we came from across the trench. Too lazy to go get the ticket in the garage now...

And I'll be going back to SoCal soon enough. I'll PM you when I do.

^^^Cool...I've only been to ACH three times. There is always CHP up there, the road is closed or there are fires. Due to this shit, I usually ride the local roads.

ACH is a gorgeous road that countless bikers have died on. I haven't ridden up there in years for all the ghosts. Beautiful area though. Can't believe you drove all the way from vegas to do ACH.

The plan was to hit Malibu too. But that ate up some time and my buddy had to get home for something this evening. I was telling myself there must be all types of people dying on that road. Some of those corners can sneak up on ya. Some tire marks were in some pretty bad spots. There was some rocks in some corners but overall, great ride.

It only took us two hours to reach Victorville, too. We weren't going slow at all getting there, lol.

:lmao: ah man that's great. Gj getting the pics to go with the story on this one.

Did you map out the gas station locations in advance? Or were you just guessing there'd be one up ahead?

And how far in the opposite direction was the last station? Most bikes can go another 30-40 miles after the light comes on, so.....:idk:

The use of the roadsign is pure win :lol:

Way to go D...Very Cool!....as for the po what a douche!

Epic story. Tremendous improvising with the bridge.

If you hit malibu send me a pm, I know those roads as well as anyone.

I assume you took another road back? Bummer about the ticket, hope it isn't too expensive.

:lol: awesome. I think the experience might be worth the fine....

Yep.

Plus, he doesn't have to worry about posting the pictures. :lol:

JC

how did you get past the road barricade?

Ya, we mapped 'em. The closest one if we turned around was 45 miles. He wouldn't have made it. If his bike's light comes o. After only 85 miles, the reserve would get used up faster than normal too.

Ya, the exit was in another town, we got on the 210 to the 15.

There was barely enough room on the right side to tuck our mirrors in and squeek by.

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of course you post the pic of me in the act of breaking the law. lmfao!

Nobody knew it was you until now, haha. Who's this guy?

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Awesome poster, definately one for the save file


Is this the same guy with the blue leathers?

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damn i'm in way too many photos. lol

Seriously that is you in the water photo?

haha! no but we do ride through stuff like this when necessary.

By "we", he means him...and anybody else that isn't me.

:lol:

Would suck if the dude going through the water had to put his foot down. Or better yet hit a bit rock and flipped over the bike. LOL

It sounds like a great ride and awesome story.

Epic pictures! :lol

I want in on the next ride...

I might go this Sunday, actually.

Did you take ACH all the way to the 210? That CHP happened to just be sitting on ACH waiting?

Yes. Sitting at the end of the twisty stuff in La Canada waiting.

I will be in Utah at World Superbike. I will be back in So Cal the following weekend though.

I def wouldnt have guessed you squeaked by on the side of the Barricade...It looks Tight as fuck...I thought you guys helped out each other by leaning the bike on an extreme angle and going UNDER the barricade....Lol

Great story though...and I so woulda been the guy snapping off pictures of said event.

Awesome funny!!

What an awesome time, thanks for the write up and pics man, makes me wish I was closer. I cant remember the last time I did something memorably fun on the bike.

Maybe if you end up coming out here we'll hit up SoCal. That's where the bestest roads are. Angeles Crest is almost too much of a good thing. Had my legs burning like I was on the track!

Great story!

:lol:

I didn't know Woog had good ideas!

ACH is a great run when you can go from one end to another. I prefer to go from the I-15 side and end up on the 210-West side. That way at the end of the ride you can stop by Pro Italia and breath in the smell of leathers and feast the eyes on Italian stallions.

http://www.proitalia.com

Totally off topic, but when we went on our cruise in March, the guy helping us with excursions was wearing an open front shirt, displaying all his chest hair, a gold chain with "Itallion Stallion" on it, along with pointy toed, gold tipped boots, with gold spurs. It was hilarious.

That's the way we went.

You start with this and end up with this.

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The bridge was the win! :dthumb: