California Loop 2018 Day 3 Part 3 – Lost Coast, Petrolia – Capetown

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In this video, I ride from Petrolia, California to Capetown, California along California’s Lost Cost on Mattole Road. The remoteness of this area of California along with the scenery makes this area a great ride and place to explore.

After my roadside pitstop at Captetown, I discovered that the angle on my GoPro mounted to the top of my helmet was too high. A bit of a bummer that I didn’t capture any usable video of Ferndale, California. This is a charming small town and there was parade on this day that I rolled through (I don’t think the parade was in my honor though).

On my next helmet, I have mounted the GoPro on my chin. I like the viewing angle better from here as you can see some of my motorcycle. However, my wife prefers the view from atop of the helmet, better for scenery she claims. Who’s right?….who knows (until she reads this, then of course she is right!) 🙂

California Loop 2018 Day 3 Part 2 – Lost Coast Honeydew to Mattole Point

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On this day, I ride from Honeydew, California to Lost Coast Mattole Point on the Mattole Road and Lighthouse Road. The road was in pretty bad shape and I was not as comfortable on Dexter as I am now.

At the time of this video, it had only been 8 months since my nasty motorcycle accident where I high sided off the bike, and only 5 months since I had purchased Dexter. So, a long story not as long, I rode very slow though many portions of these roads the were peppered with potholes, washouts or in some cases half the road was gone. Also a fair amount of gravel where the asphalt had washed / worn away.

Regardless of the sketchy road conditions (and my inexperience with Dexter at the time) the scenery was fantastic and this was a very memorable portion of this trip for me.

California Loop 2018 Day 3 Part 1 – Humboldt Redwoods

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On this day, I rode from my camp in Burlington Campground onto the Avenue of the Giants and Mattole Road, riding through Humboldt Redwoods Sate Park.

Put your headphones on, Sit back and chill to this soothing and relaxing video.

This vide is one of three videos covering California Loop 2018 Day 3