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Waterfalls are huge this year...

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Yosemite

Don't rub it in

Beautiful place! We went there last year (in the car...).
How does your bike reacts to different elevations? Our car (Subaru Legacy GT Spec.B) was not effected (turbo charger) but I can imagine normally aspirated engine should loose about 10% of its power every 1000 ft above see level...
Did you feel any of it on your bike?

Wasn't pushing nearly hard enough up there to notice any power fall-off. The thing has more power than I could ever use anyway...

Valley floor is ~4k ft; top pass coming in is ~6k...

Yosemite . Bridal Falls or Angel Falls?? I have made the trip several times in my lifetime-not seen that much water since the last big flood.

That's Yosemite Falls. This is Bridalveil...

Bigg-Brother wrote:Beautiful place! We went there last year (in the car...).
How does your bike reacts to different elevations? Our car (Subaru Legacy GT Spec.B) was not effected (turbo charger) but I can imagine normally aspirated engine should loose about 10% of its power every 1000 ft above see level...
Did you feel any of it on your bike?

This was Hwy 89, north of Yosemite through the Sierras almost exactly a year ago (1 year + 1 week). The highest road elevation was 8,320 feet and I didn't notice a thing, even on my loaded-down 800GS.



Temperature (end of May) at noon was a balmy 21* F.


Here's a link to the ride report if anyone is interested:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=582294

PS- I'm no math whiz, but if you lose 10% of your power for every 1k feet above sea-level, how do you explain the guys who ride their bikes to 14k foot elevations in Colorado? They should have what...-40% power?

ContraMoto wrote: Waterfalls are huge this year...

Lovely. I had to ride on the non-scenic interstate today and wished I had a fairing like yours.

Jedi5150 wrote:This was Hwy 89, north of Yosemite through the Sierras ...

Last time I rode that pass was on a bicycle...down to 395 and back up. The famous Markleeville Death Ride (aka, Tour of the California Alps).

Going up there this summer with my 13 and 14 yo sons. They're going to descend to 395 on downhill skateboards. I'll trail them on the R (for safety from passing cars), with HD camera of course...should be fun.

At the 11,000' summit of Beartooth Pass in Wyoming last summer I didn't notice much power loss, though I wasn't really trying to scrape pegs up there either.

ContraMoto wrote:

Jedi5150 wrote:This was Hwy 89, north of Yosemite through the Sierras ...

Last time I rode that pass was on a bicycle...down to 395 and back up. The famous Markleeville Death Ride (aka, Tour of the California Alps).

Going up there this summer with my 13 and 14 yo sons. They're going to descend to 395 on downhill skateboards. I'll trail them on the R (for safety from passing cars), with HD camera of course...should be fun.

That's unreal! I can't think of what would possess someone to ride a bike up that hill.

I've got to admit though, I was blown away by the scenery between 395 and the summit. And that's saying a lot, I lived in the Canadian Rockies for a couple years. But the back side of 89 near 395...I simply didn't know there were places in the US with alpine scenery like that.

Hwy 89/Tioga Pass on a skateboard:

http://youtu.be/MqSqCi_QPNg

ContraMoto wrote:Hwy 89/Tioga Pass on a skateboard:

http://youtu.be/MqSqCi_QPNg

That video is from Tioga Pass (Hwy 120, a good distance south of 89). Amazing video but I've got to admit, I got pissed off at the kid when he road right towards the oncoming cars and passed behind them. Probably scared the crap out of them. I hope your kids will at least stay on the right side of the highway Contra.

Jedi5150 wrote:That video is from Tioga Pass (Hwy 120, a good distance south of 89).

Oops...yes, I meant Hwy 120. Sonora Pass is steeper and would be a lot harder to skate down.

The kid in the vid (Liam Morgan) is a pro skater and probably the best longboard rider in America. Lives near us and rides with my kids sometimes. He is a little too crazy for my taste and I don't let my boys go down the hills he rides. I once watched him dive over the hood of a car that came around a corner and surprised him when he was on the wrong side of the road...