Janus - IBA 50cc Quest, 2.0

UNSUCCESSFUL - Rider crashed just east of Covington LA.

Ocean Beach, San Diego CA to Jacksonville Beach FL in under 50 hours.  Iron Butt Association 50cc Quest.

I have been waiting two full months to do this ride.  It's a bit of unfinished business from back in the middle of March as part of Operation IBA Daytona.  See the Op IBA Daytona - After Action Report for the details.

During the pandemic stay-at-home time I was making improvements to the Janus.  I put on a Avon Trail Rider dual sport rear tire in hopes of getting greater mileage.  The OEM tire had just under 5,000 miles on it and would not have lasted the 5,000 miles I will be riding during this ride. Another improvement was to swap out the wide soft bag for a narrow waterproof hard case that holds maintenance items.

Sun, 5/17 - Tue, 5/19:  Janus 50cc Quest - Ocean Beach, San Diego CA to Jacksonville Beach FL, 2,356 miles in under 50 hours.  This will be the longest ride for the Janus so far.  A lot can go wrong along the way, but these training rides are about working out the kinks and keep the bike moving.  Hopefully, I've prepared the Janus well for this grueling IBA certified event.

Central Daylight Times

Shown here is the Garmin BaseCamp route timing based on a 60mph moving average. Adding the fuel and rest stop times to the route plan, BaseCamp determines the time to destination. This gives me good information about the ride pace compared to the plan. The fuel stops are spread about 250 miles apart. It does not mean that I will be stopping at the plotted stations.  I will get fuel based on the next available station after I switch to 'Reserve'.  The average range to 'Reserve' is 272.2 miles based on ROG - Run Out of Gas drills

The plan is to arrive at the finish in Neptune Beach, Jacksonville FL shortly before 3am EDT on Tuesday 5/19.  This plan give me a little less then 4 hours of slack time before the 50 hour clock runs out.

In addition to a Garmin Dezl 770 GPS, will be employing several smartphone apps via a waterproof (IP67) Samsung Galaxy S9+:  Android Auto running Google Maps for navigation, POI Pocket for GPX files to Google Maps, Amazon music and MyRadar for enroute weather radar.  I have unlimited data with Verizon.  There are only a few cell dead spots along the entire route from SDO to JAX.
Big "Shout Out" to Greg Rice for the 50cc -100cc JAX-SDO Weather page.  Very handy!

I will be using Bubbler GPS Pro for tracking.  I like using Bubbler GPS Pro for its integrated picture capability when marking locations.  At the start/finish and enroute fuel stops, I can take a picture of the dated business receipt (DBR) with the motorcycle odometer to document the stop.  Taking the picture while using the Bubbler GPS location markers automatically uploads a thumbnail of the picture to the SpotWalla map.  This provides three ways the important documentation is recorded, paper DBR with odo inscribed, picture on the smartphone and upload to the SpotWalla data cloud.

SpotWalla Map (Active Sun 5/17 - Tue 5/19)

Janus 50cc Quest Stats:  x,xxx GPS miles, x,xxx Odo miles, hh:mm total, hh:mm moving, Mvg xx MPH, hh:mm stopped, Ovg xx MPH