Scooter Cannonball 2021 // Days 11 & 12: The Aftermath & Heading South through California
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Welcome back! Today is Wednesday, July 21, 2021, and we are beginning our return trip back to Texas after the Scotoer Cannonball Run finale in Eureka. This is a long ride today, so skip around with the chapter markers below.
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Time indexes:
0:00 Riding through the Humboldt Redwood Forest, heading to Ukiah
5:03 Brainstorming over the 'perfect' Scooter Cannonball machine
8:15 Fuel stop under a bridge, meeting a cross-country bike packer!
17:55 Stopping to shed extra layers, temperature swings in the mountains
26:53 Leaving Coffman's Exhaust in Ukiah
28:59 Riding across the San Rafael Bridge
34:39 Resuming the following morning from Cupertino
36:20 Flirting with death on I-5 South, fuel stops on the side of the highway
41:53 Little bikes on the interstates, drafting big trucks for speed gains
45:09 Resuming east of Bakersfield in 102°F temperatures
49:29 Huge wind farms near Monolith, CA
51:52 Riding away from the sunset, motocamping in a Wal-Mart parking lot
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2019 Honda Super Cub C125 ABS
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It’s crazy thinking how far you’ve gone on such a small machine… it’s crazy driving that distance in a regular car I can’t imagine how it feels on a small bike so open to everything.
I think you and Adrian can replace the term 'iron but' with 'stainless steel'.
Those little Honda engines are truly amazing. As the locomotive in the children story, I can here it say "I think I can, I know I can".
Two guys with big balls riding little bikes, I give you alot of credit, nice job.
Thanks! That was our real problem: as the altitudes increased in the mountains, so did the weight of our giant brass balls... that's what slowed us down! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! 🤣👍 --QM
Bonus Mode! : thanks for adding in the return trip too!
This has been such an epic Journey. Every scooter ride or Cub rider should watch this. This is how you Moto the USA.
It's been an epic series... Hope you're doing it again soon!
100%
You guys are incredible--This cannonball run is nothing short of grueling. A real test of both mental and physical commitment. Quite the accomplishment and an experience that will last you a life time and give you plenty to talk about in your later years. Again great job and be careful.
I once went 65 miles on a 250W Bosche pedelec in a single day, my, I felt like such a hero for that. I came back the next day on the train. That guy you met, kind of humbling! The only way I beat him is to claim that 72 years old makes a difference, but that would just be a lie.
Wow, what a journey! I've truly enjoyed watching each episode and seeing so many beautiful places in our country! Great job on everything!
Thanks for the feedback and support! I have 2-3 more videos to finish out this series. We motocamped in the Grand Canyon and took a hot air balloon ride in New Mexico, so those are the highlights of our return trip. I should have those final videos uploaded in the next week or so. Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
How u been, how is ur recovery from the hunter accident
Impressive trees 🌳 the trek from canada 🇨🇦 down south on a bicycle is inspirational, i rode my bicycle to work for a whole week and my legs 🦵 where in pain last year.
Nice scenery
I'll bet that the guy who makes the trailers is going to get a lot of new business from this.
Thanks for the video and return home video too! QM
I was a bit Pukkered up when Adrian got dragged towards that truck !!
wow you both didn't go on california's interstate 1 that road is adjacent to the ocean giving you the best view you will ever have in your life. i highly recommend you guys go back to california and travel on interstate 1 it is the best view you will ever see in your life. i only been on in once or twice but man it was the best view like the most beautiful view you can imagine with the ocean on one side and the side of a cliff on the other it is beautiful.
Harley on the road!🙂
If it gets that cold. Buy black bag and put it under jacket. I once rode into mountains. Weather changed from sunny hot to cold and raining.
The pier by the Richmond San Rafael bridge is an oil terminal pier to unload oil tankers in to the Chevron refinery just the other side of the interstate.
Great ride along as usual. Northern CA is beautiful. I lived in San Rafael in 2014-15, crossed that bridge for work twice a week and never was sure if that right lane was a lane or not, looks more official now then it did then. Your journey visited my current town as well as the previous 3 places I've lived, been very cool to revisit vicariously :)
I been to Bakersfield, Ca long time ago back in the 70s I was 11 yrs old then mostly move alot because of my Dad job! QM
For the next SCBR(if you are joining),bring the Trail Cub but give it a big-bore kit maybe. Turn the comfort up a notch😎.
Those honda cubs must be one hell of a motorcycle
The Honda Super Cub C125 is an amazing little machine! We were astounded at how reliable they were. We didn't experience a single mechanical failure during our entire 10K mile trip! Not even a flat tire! We did eat through a couple of drive chains, 3 rear tires each, and 4 oil changes, but those are expected and expendable. Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
@@QuasiMotard I've always ridden large motorcycles and currently own two. At 75 yrs old and after following your adventure ln youtube I will have to rethink what I want. My big problem is my size. I'm 6'2" and 295 lbs. I might be too big for the super cub. Have you ever seen a big man riding one?
@@silverback802 🤣 You'd probably feel (and look) like a circus animal on the little Super Cub! You should check out Mr. Fish's reviews on the Cub. He's a tall, heavier British guy that does just fine on his Cub: ua-cam.com/video/2lP9kGSPbVo/v-deo.html . His ride review on the Cub sold him on it, so he bought one for himself! The UK Cubs have a different shift pattern than ours (reverse direction, and a wrap from 4-N-1 while stopped).
The Cub's maximum weight capacity is 248 lbs, but we know that they are loaded much heavier in Asian countries. If you're just wanting to putter around town and on slower rural roads, then the Cub should do just fine with your height and weight. You could drop a tooth on the front sprocket to give better acceleration at the cost of a few MPH on the top end.
I wish that Honda would read my mind and create a "Touring Cub" that's just a little bigger than the C125. If the Cub had a slightly longer wheelbase and different rake (better high-speed stability), wider 17" tires, a 185-200cc air-cooled engine, and a 3-gallon fuel tank would be superb as a back road tourer.
Have you looked at some of the other small-bore standard bikes from Royal Enfield like the Meteor 350 and Hunter 350? Those might be a good small-displacement alternative that would fit you better than the Cub. They certainly don't look as cool (in my opinion), but the larger frames and engines are more capable than the Cub. 🤔 --QM
@@QuasiMotard Thanks, I'll check him out
Did I miss the conclusion or something? I thought it would have been shown.. Fantastic series tho, I've really liked watching it all. Stay safe, and keep rollin
Thanks for the feedback! The final episode is still pending. The last couple of days were just crushing miles and trying to get back home early.
I'm working on my spreadsheet with all of the totals and breakdowns of what I spent in each category... fuel, consumables, food, lodging, etc. I'm hoping to get that video out in the next week or so. Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
i think i changed my mind i think i'm going to try the TAT next year instead that way we dont have a time limits to make.
Y'all were bold to stealth camp in that specific Walmart. I lived near Barstow (forced to) and it was a common occurrence for shootings/stabbings to happen there. Not many good options for anything in Barstow without being able to lock the bikes in a motel/hotel room.
As someone who tows in California no one tows at 55. Normally between about 62 to 65 for most big rigs. Now for heat I came through 58 on the way to the Grand Canyon about 2 weeks before this video on 7/10 I pulled into Barstow Koa just past 5pm and my truck was reading 115, it had cooled down a lot for you at 102.
I half expected to see an Imperial scout with a little tiny blaster on a Grom
Che discese! Pauuuuuraaaa!!!😅
Let's talk about ADV 160. Been haring really good stuff.
The ADV160 will probably be my 2025 Scooter Cannonball steed. 😉 --QM
I hope your safe and away from the wild Texas tornado. God bless Texas.
Most interstates the minimum speed limit is 45mph...
QuasiMotard - I've been watching this journey, and watched some of your other videos and have enjoyed your content. I lived in Cypress TX and Pearland TX, so I am very familiar with your Houston area videos. I've been thinking about what I would want to ride on a trip like this, I know you have several bikes and scooters, and I've thought the PCX or ADV would be a better choice than the Cubs, can you tell me why you chose the Cubs over those other scooters? I currently have a Triumph Bonneville, and Genuine Buddy 170i and have thought about getting the PCX or Cub, I like the way the cub looks more but I am just not sure about the 125cc over the 150cc.
Thanks for the feedback and watching the ride series! The short answer is: the PCX would be a more capable and comfortable steed for a 10K-mile cross-country trip. However, easy is boring, so I wanted to prove to myself that a Super Cub could do it.
My original plan was to ride one of my PCX150's for the 2016 and/or 2018 SCBR. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend those years because of family issues and scheduling problems. C-19 postponed the 2020 event until 2021, so I had more time to contemplate my choice of steeds before the long ride.
When I got the Super Cub in 2019, I immediately started a movement (defection) in the SCBR forums to see if it could participate in the 2020 event. I knew that the SC would be less comfortable and more difficult to endure than the PCX, but I figured that the trade-off in reliability might be worth the gamble. The SC is chain-driven (less power loss, more efficient, longer service life), and it *should* have been better on tires.
However, in retrospect, those items probably wore out at about the same rate as they would have on the PCX. The SC is more fuel-efficient than the PCX, but its smaller tank meant more frequent stops for refueling. That complicated the logistics for a long cross-country trip where fuel could be scarce for 200-300 miles at a stretch.
Pulling trailers behind the SC was a new variable that I added only about 6 months before the start of the 2021 SCBR. I reckoned that I could ride self-supported if I used the KipMoto SherpaX trailer because it could hold my spares, tools, and moto-camping gear without flattening the bike's rear suspension under all of that extra weight. More importantly, it allowed me to carry ~4 gallons of extra fuel in the Rotopax containers. So, I reached out to Joel at KipMoto to inquire whether he could build a custom hoop/hitch for the SherpaX trailer to fit the Super Cub, and he quickly said "YES"!
Adrian didn't know for sure if he would participate in the event and which bike he would ride if he did commit to the task. He was tentatively planning to buy my 2016 PCX150 from me, which would have switched my ride platform back to my 2015 PCX150 so we could be on equivalent machines. By random chance, one of my channel subscribers contacted me and offered to sell his NEW 2019 SC that was sitting in his garage for only $3k. I passed that info on to Adrian, and he drove up to Minnesota the following day to get it!
We tried a few 500-1500 mile trips on the Super Cubs so that he could get a feel for the torture. He still wasn't sure if he had the gluteal fortitude to see it through. He finally decided to bite the bullet in Feb 2021, so we duplicated my Super Cub setup for Adrian's bike (including the trailer) across about 4 months. We received his trailer and both of our custom hitches only about 1 week before our departure day! The rest, as they say, is history! Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
I've been hearing alot from other UA-camrs having issues with those GoPro 8. Apparently they are going to sell without having a better shake down and getting rid of the issues plaguing them. Must have cut the R and D budget.
Fantastic series, same again this year?😀
Thanks! No, the Scooter Cannonball is held every 2 years, so the next one is in 2023. I'm definitely planning to go again in the 2023... not sure yet which bike I'll be riding. Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
How about the next run with Monkeys?
@@bertusgrobler2146 That would be fun, but the Monkey wouldn't qualify for the SCBR because it wouldn't meet 3/5 criteria of being a scooter... it's a motorcycle. I initially thought about riding a Grom back in 2016, but the qualifications aren't met. 😉👍 --QM
What octane level do you use for your Super Cub? Did you change it for the Cannonball Run?
I usually run base unleaded (87 PON or higher) in my Super Cub. I will occasionally run mid (89) or super (91-93), but the higher grades don't make any performance difference in the Cub's low-compression engine. The higher grade fuels usually have more additive packages and detergents, so it's not bad to run them occasionally... otherwise, it's just wasted $$$.
I ran base unleaded (87) throughout the Cannonball Run unless it wasn't available. We ran into a few stations that had 85-86, which was odd... so I skipped that and ran mid-grade (89) instead. I will be publishing all of the fuel stats from my trip on Fuelly soon ( fuelly.com/driver/QuasiMotard ). I'll have a breakdown of all of the fuel costs, locations and other metrics in my final Cannnoball Run video. (Spoiler alert: my total fuel expenses were only $293.99 for almost 10K miles!) 😉👍 --QM
@@QuasiMotard always appreciate your detailed info.
how do you get those stats on the screen? with live gps on the map, speed, elevation, etc??
The gauge data is recorded by the GoPro Hero7 Black camera and my Garmin GPS. I use a third-party application called GoPro Telemetry Extractor ( goprotelemetryextractor.com/ ) to generate the gauge overlays. It will work with any GPS data streams from the GoPro's video files or other devices (e.g., Garmin, DJI, etc).
I use TE to combine my GoPro data and also the GPX files from my Garmin Zumo GPS to achieve better accuracy for some of my videos. The gauges and layouts are completely customizable, so that creates more work... but I think that the results are worth the effort. Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
What is the big red tank bolted in the step through? It looke like a gas tank. 🤔
Howdy, Thomas! That is an auxiliary fuel tank. It's one of only two "Neil tanks" in existence! I have one on my Cub, and a friend of mine, Adrian, has the other one. Our buddy, Neil, custom fabricated those tanks and mounting cradles for us before we left on our 10K-mile cross-country trip for the 2021 Scooter Cannonball Run.
They hold about 1.3 gallons of fuel, but they aren't plumbed into the main fuel supply. We used them as emergency fuel supplies and as transfer tanks during our extended road trip. You can see it in action here: ua-cam.com/video/NYjmV7FqLOM/v-deo.html . Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
Any updates on Navi giveaway?
I've been down sick with a respiratory infection for several weeks, but I'm finally getting better now. I'm hoping to kick off that project this coming weekend, so subscribe and turn on notifications to receive the community updates! Cheers! 😉👍 --QM
i just got some devastating news today so it seems i wont be doing anything. so it seems i just might be selling my new trail 125 plus my silverwing. because i have to finish this house soon. because i have to have shellee set up to be able to take care of herself before long. so i wont be doing anymore add ones that i have already ordered.
Wow, I'm sorry to hear about the sad news! I hope you can still find a way to enjoy the bikes and have some time for yourself. Best wishes, and keep us updated! 🙏 --QM
@@QuasiMotard well it seems i will be spending more time at the VA in houston doing more test until they find out 100% what's going on. then i will know what i'm going to do. but as of what they seeing right now its not good.