I didn’t know any IBA riders before my first IBA ride in 2017 and other than those on here, I still don’t know any. The ones I’ve heard of in my area I’ve never run across and the riders I looked up to when attempting my first, all bowed out even though they had talked openly about trying it one day.
By my first successful IBA ride, all of the distance rides I had been on prior to it were 50% twisty or sweeping roads and 50% highways. After all, I’m a sportbike rider and I’m always wearing a full race suit. The highway portions were always the toughest on my body, locked into a few positions bone joints aching without relief no matter what I tried while super-slabbing. I hated the highway portions and loved the curvy portions.
The freedom to plan my own route meant I had to include as many miles of twisty roads as I possibly could string together. Success hinged on that fact alone. And since I knew of no other IBA ride that included the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1), let alone hwy-36 or hwy-70, and probably for good reason, the prospect on riding all of them in one day grew my appetite.
The video is a near complete before-during-and-after time lapse of my second successful attempt. It began in the moonlit darkness at 1:25 AM in Reno, NV, where I proceeded to get my witness verification at a pub that was open at that hour and officially began at 1:45 AM with my first fuel receipt. The first leg of this ride was a 217 mile non-stop in the darkness to get miles under the bike in relative safety of a freeway, then arrive at Bodega Bay, CA, around dawn, where the adventure of tilting the horizon began in earnest.
The history and beauty of the ride are captured in 16:9, but the exhilaration of riding a twisty course for a dawn-to-dusk full day cannot be explained or captured in pictures. It was different, in a very good way.
By my first successful IBA ride, all of the distance rides I had been on prior to it were 50% twisty or sweeping roads and 50% highways. After all, I’m a sportbike rider and I’m always wearing a full race suit. The highway portions were always the toughest on my body, locked into a few positions bone joints aching without relief no matter what I tried while super-slabbing. I hated the highway portions and loved the curvy portions.
The freedom to plan my own route meant I had to include as many miles of twisty roads as I possibly could string together. Success hinged on that fact alone. And since I knew of no other IBA ride that included the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1), let alone hwy-36 or hwy-70, and probably for good reason, the prospect on riding all of them in one day grew my appetite.
The video is a near complete before-during-and-after time lapse of my second successful attempt. It began in the moonlit darkness at 1:25 AM in Reno, NV, where I proceeded to get my witness verification at a pub that was open at that hour and officially began at 1:45 AM with my first fuel receipt. The first leg of this ride was a 217 mile non-stop in the darkness to get miles under the bike in relative safety of a freeway, then arrive at Bodega Bay, CA, around dawn, where the adventure of tilting the horizon began in earnest.
The history and beauty of the ride are captured in 16:9, but the exhilaration of riding a twisty course for a dawn-to-dusk full day cannot be explained or captured in pictures. It was different, in a very good way.
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