2020 Pashnit Touring
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Today will be a 400 mile ride home across the state. Goals are to photograph Highway 128 through Boonville, ride a super goaty backroad known as Geyers Rd and ride through the wildfire regions on the south side of Lake Berryessa
Have to ride the Leggett Section once more, never gets old.
Have to ride the Leggett Section once more, never gets old.
This is a knee-drag road. But I was being good.
I was looking at that date on the side of the grandstands and realized the date was today. The tiny town of Boonville was deserted. Smoke + fires + covid = nothing going on. All county fairs cancelled.
I was looking at that date on the side of the grandstands and realized the date was today. The tiny town of Boonville was deserted. Smoke + fires + covid = nothing going on. All county fairs cancelled.
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I've been writing about motorcycle travel and roads for 25 years now, I often write the article in my head as I'm riding the roads, at least conjuring a theme for an individual road.
The first thing I thought of on Geysers Rd is 90% of motorcyclists should NOT ride this road. I did lead a tour up this road ten year ago, but it was the Goat Trail Tour. Yep, I actually designed a road tour on the most goaty narrow forgotten (paved) roads I could find along the Coast Range.
Fun ride, and the Hayabusa handles just about anything you throw at it, but guys never read the tour description and showed up on big bikes like RT's. The GS guys loved it, but not everyone likes these kind of roads.
Numerous gravel patches. You'd think they'd fix this, but it was like this 10 years ago last time I rode it.
Single lane, lots of smoke
The first thing I thought of on Geysers Rd is 90% of motorcyclists should NOT ride this road. I did lead a tour up this road ten year ago, but it was the Goat Trail Tour. Yep, I actually designed a road tour on the most goaty narrow forgotten (paved) roads I could find along the Coast Range.
Fun ride, and the Hayabusa handles just about anything you throw at it, but guys never read the tour description and showed up on big bikes like RT's. The GS guys loved it, but not everyone likes these kind of roads.
Numerous gravel patches. You'd think they'd fix this, but it was like this 10 years ago last time I rode it.
Single lane, lots of smoke
The word Geysers eludes to a seismically active region. The ground beneath this road seems fluid.
This road is where all the Geothermal plants are. Active seismic faults are boiling the ground water. The hot water is then used to generate electricity.
Great pics Tim but no way I’m riding goat trails (and) in the smoke. Sitting at home now inside a giant smoke cloud is bad enough. It’s dark enough in midday that I have to turn on lamps in the house. I wanted to ride to Monterey and south thru Big Sur but hiway 1 is closed due to the fire and smoke. Pissin me off!
10 Miles in, things change a bit, single lane changes to two lane to allow the big trucks to reach the geothermal plants.
We call this the racetrack section, but you never know what's around the next corner the pavement could be crap.
This area also burned a few years ago.
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