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2025 is here and we're back on the road. Winters are short in California. Rainy, but short. And no snow as long as I promise to stay under 4000 ft. Two seasons of riding on this Gen3, prepping for another season of riding with 31k on the clock means spooning on a new set of Bridgestone T32s...

2024 Pashnit Touring on a Gen3 Hayabusa At the turn of the 2022-2023 ride season, I purchased a 2022 Gen3 Hayabusa from one of the H.org members for $15k, 1500 miles, and $3000 in mods. Hadn't even seen a Gen3 in person yet but it was nice to buy a near new bike. Promised myself that I would do...

Prolog: Prepping the new Pashnit Gen3 Hayabusa for touring In case you missed it, Last 2022 season's 12,000 miles of touring on a Hayabusa Last year's Ride Season wrapped up with the tour alumni presenting me with a 20th anniversary helmet they all collaborated on and had made. It was an...

Odd confession. I bought my fourth Hayabusa completely sight unseen. I hadn't even seen a Gen3 in person at a dealer or in the wild, till this one arrived at my house. Likely, that didn't matter. I knew I was going to buy this bike as soon as Suzuki announced the bike in the summer of 2021...

A friend asked if I wanted to jump off a perfectly good bridge, attached to an elastic tether known as a bungee. She was a cute redhead and had a Porsche. The decision wasn’t difficult. Now being young, jumping off a perfectly good bridge with a cute redhead sounded like great fun for a Friday...