Best scenic rides in SoCal?

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Mar 21, 2017 | 09:45 PM

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ccain529

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Originally Posted by NORTY FLATZ

Can't help you on the wings' front. People around here don't really mind spending $$ for craft beer.
My GF is from KCMO, where BBQ is an art. We've only found 1 place in 100 miles that passes for "ok." The rest are garbage.
I went on a quest for clam chowder years ago. The best I could find was in Monterey at the Fish Hopper. Closer, the chowder at Marie Calendars is "so-so."
Happy hour specials is where you may reduce the cost for beer.

Have you been to Rainbow Oaks for food? (Wednesday night prime rib is decent. The alligator is good. The black russian boar sausage is great.) Rice Canyon leads to Hwy 76, then a quick left/right and you're on Couser canyon! Then onto Lilac and Circle R.

The Gopher Hole at Castle Creek Country Club is purported to have decent wings. Public welcome. I've been there for lunch. Not bad.

There, I just gave you a dynamite ride and 2 places for food.

Continue on and we have Fat Ivor's BBQ in Valley Center...

I like Rainbow Oaks, been there quite a bit actually. They put on a kickass breakfast... I had no idea they had gator. Gonna have to go and try it.

Thanks for the ride info!!! You rock!!!

Mar 22, 2017 | 03:21 PM

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NORTY FLATZ

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What I gave you is only the tip of the iceberg. There's literally hundreds and hundreds of miles of spectacular motorcycle roads in this area.
From the Mexican border to Lake Shasta out to Nevada/Arizona.
I'm talking World class motorcycle roads too. The kind where you don't want to stop.
Butler Maps has info.
MadMaps has info.
Ride safe!

Mar 22, 2017 | 08:17 PM

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ccain529

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You sir, are the man!

Here's some boobies for your trouble:

Mar 23, 2017 | 12:18 AM

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NORTY FLATZ

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Boobies are always a good thing!

Mar 23, 2017 | 09:23 PM

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ezrider93012

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101 Freeway out to Santa Barbara is a nice ocean side ride. I haven't taken it yet but have driven it. It's real nice. It's not a twisty ride but a very scenic one.

Mar 23, 2017 | 09:57 PM

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JustDave13

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My wife is a relatively new rider with just over a year of putting around town and the local back roads under her belt. I haven't pushed her too much. Partly because I wanted her to learn her bike and get comfortable in traffic and on the road but mostly because she so damned strong willed.

So strong willed in fact that confidence isn't something you can force someone like her into by pestering her into longer trips. Seriously, she'll totally stop right then and there, say something about you having intercourse with your mother, and make an otherwise good day into something you'll carry a scar from and be ashamed to remember.

I mean, okay, she's not really that bad but one doesn't just *****-nilly go around poking sticks into the gorilla cage, if you catch my drift.

But, yesterday, she got on her bike and ripped that "staying close to home" bandaid off by taking her 100+ mile round trip and now apparently has a gasoline *** because all she's talking about this morning is venturing out more.

So, to celebrate her newfound badassness, we're gonna start planning some day trips now that she's comfortable enough to venture out away from town on her bike.

We're planning on hitting up the Ortega/Hell's Kitchen/Cook's Corner thing and the loop around Palomar mountain on the 76 and 79 and maybe Deluz provided they've fixed some of the shittier parts.

But, she said she'd would like to venture further into San Diego county, western Riverside and maybe one day soon make a big trip to either Vegas, Scottsdale, and hell, she even threw out the word that all husbands with wives that ride want to hear... Sturgis.

So, I'm asking my SoCal brethren to share some of the day trips you guys like to take that are mostly scenic, back road kinda rides with cool stops along the way. Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated.

Seeing as you already have the 79/76 (Julian/Palomar Mt./Santa Ysabel) ride going you could always head up to Big Bear or Idyllwild. There's also the 74 by Elsinore to San Juan Capistrano for a good ride.
Anza Borrego
Salton Sea
Palm Springs..
Sunrise Highway down in southern San Diego

Personally I avoid the coast, too much traffic

Last edited by JustDave13; Mar 23, 2017 at 10:03 PM.

Apr 7, 2017 | 07:53 AM

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chilidipper

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Cold Springs Tavern- Santa Barbara

Cool piece of americana histroy. Old Wells Fargo stage coach station off HWY 101, and 154
Los Padres National Forest, 5995 Stagecoach Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Typically a great ride when the heat is high here in flatlands SOCAL suburbias