Yah.
I've ridden route 1 several times and the views are beautiful.
My biggest complaint with riding that road is the traffic and the speed they drive coupled with the fact that the road is one lane each way and most of it is a "no passing" zone.
A almost endless stream of motor-homes, campers and white knuckled drivers who came from the plains states and never saw a drop off at the side of the road of over 2 inches makes going real slow. Like probably about 30 mph.
On one of my rides on that highway, the road crews were doing something (I never found out what it was) so they had all of the North bound traffic stopped.
People walking around looking over the edge at the ocean. Kids running and screaming at the top of their lungs. Dogs barking. You get the picture.
Anyway, since everyone was stopped and had been for a long time I decided to slowly ride my Beemer forward. After about a mile of slow riding, I found myself at the head of the pack.
I hadn't waited over 30 seconds before the man with the flag waved it at me and waved his other hand North so I slowly rode past him.
I had over a 5 mile ride without anyone ahead of me and with no oncoming traffic.
I didn't ride real hard because I kept thinking there must be some sort of wash out or rock slide around the next blind bend but in those places where I could see the road was clear for 1/2 mile or so I did a bit of peg dragging.