Motorcycle Trip to Big Sur - Pacific Coast Highway 

Thank you for your comments. Definitely a bucket list ride. Be glad when they repair the road damage so riders can experience it again.

Your music, especially "Classique" was beautiful and captured exactly the feeling I wanted. So cool you ride as well.

Thank you for your response. I’m glad I made that trip last year as Highway one is closed right near the bridge due to the heavy rains this year. Happy riding.

Wow, you live so close to such great roads to ride. Highway 1 is suppose to open this summer. Maybe making the dream come true in September when the summer traffic is gone, the fog has given way to sunshine, and riding down the last leg through LA to Redondo Beach early on a Saturday or Sunday morning to avoid the traffic. 😀

Thank you for your kind words

Wow, "too short" is a nice compliment. Next trip will be a longer video. Thank you.

You are so right. It is so smooth and quiet that the ride in nature is much more serene and enjoyable.

I love the white RT. Much more visible and some times cars slow down because they think I'm the highway patrol. Sounds like a great trip. I would avoid the Los Angeles basin during rush hours (which can be almost anytime except late evening to 6 am). Getting north of San Francisco you could go up Interstate 5 (kinda of boring but faster) or highway 101. Coming down from San Francisco onto Highway 1 would be the best way. Most all of the pullouts off the two lane highway are on the side closest to the ocean, so going south would give you a lot of places to stop and rest or fly the drone. The pullouts typically overlook the most scenic locations. FYI: The summer is the busiest time of year on Highway 1 as it is most everywhere else. If you stay the night on highway 1, the lodging from Carmel south for about 50 miles is pricey. Continuing south for another 35 to 50 miles will get you to Ragged Point, San Simeon, or Cambria where hotels are more reasonable.

start in Leggett, CA north or Ft Bragg area. The PCH north of SF is pretty spectacular also

@@kenross812 Oh my gosh, you are doing one heck of a beautiful ride. I did that trip once on my cycle. After Leggett and the drive thru tree it gets very twisty and then spectacular on the coast. Have you made that trip before?

@@chuckmarler Trying to do this in March as wife and daughter going to Japan. Thank you very much.

@@chuckmarler Wife and daughter are headed to Japan so I figured why not. Getting up there is my next endeavor. Would prefer to stay on 2 lane back roads. Wish Yosemite would be open but looks like snow/ice. Thanks!

SLO--I am so jealous!!! I used a Gopro on the front windshield mount, with a remote control attached by velcro to the tank. I also attached an Insta360 camera to the front bar. This gave me option to use any angle, front or back, or side from one camera. I had one shot with a Skydio drone which can follow the cycle. It is illegal to operate the drone at low altitudes directly over a public road so only used one shot (plus you have to plan where you will stop to retrieve the drone along a highway with limited shoulders or turnouts. Used a Mavic 2 zoom drone the other aerial shots which only requires a safe wide pullout as the drone returns back to where it took off.

@@chuckmarler So two hard mounted cameras (GoPro & Insta360) and two drones (Skydio & Mavic 2)?? Which is your favorite drone? Thinking of getting one of those some day. But then I looked up the Insta360 - wow, what a cool camera. Amazing modular design with flexible features. My fear is all of the editing required. I imagine you have a lot of time invested in creating this one video from all the camera angles.

@@davethum4421 As to the drones, if you are riding off road probably the Skydio. But other than that, the Mavic 2 which has greater distance and cinematic control. Of the two mounted cameras, would say the Insta360. You can create 4K and have so many different angles to choose from. It is like having three cameras mounted on your cycle. The editing can actually be the most fun and creative. Choosing which footage is the most representative and eliminating the stuff that doesn't work. I usually do a rough edit and then relook at the project a couple days later and end up shortening up scenes.

@@chuckmarler Thanks for the insight Chuck.

It was the middle of September. Summer vacation is over, kids are back in school. September-November are less congested and the weather is usually clearer with less fog.

@@chuckmarler thank you!