2021 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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Meeting the locals
The much loved Highway 36 is in this valley & is 140 miles of twisties
This final northern stretch of the 50-mile-long Forest Road 1 is known as Lamb Creek Grade
The much loved Highway 36 is in this valley & is 140 miles of twisties
This final northern stretch of the 50-mile-long Forest Road 1 is known as Lamb Creek Grade
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All brand-new road, brand-new pavement, this is the construction that closed Highway 36 for the last couple of years
It's finally finished and it's truly beautiful!
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Couldn't resist stopping by Bridgeville.
Bridgeville, CA is the town that back in 2002 was sold on Ebay.com for 1.8 million dollars, the first time such a thing has ever happened. The former owners, packed up and moved to Fortuna. In 2007, the very same town went on the market once more seeking a new owner.
What would I be getting for my $2M?
Bridgeville, CA is the town that back in 2002 was sold on Ebay.com for 1.8 million dollars, the first time such a thing has ever happened. The former owners, packed up and moved to Fortuna. In 2007, the very same town went on the market once more seeking a new owner.
What would I be getting for my $2M?
I'd get a bunch of row houses on a short main street.
Originally called Robinsons Crossing, it was renamed Bridgeport when a bridge was built across the Van Duzen River in 1875. The post office rejected Bridgeport as a name because of another Bridgeport (in Mono County), and the Bridgeville post office opened in 1877. Robinsons Crossing was named in honor of William Slaughter Robinson, a local rancher.
The 83-acre town became famous in 2002 for being the first in history to be put up for auction on eBay. It was originally sold for $1.77m but the buyer backed out of the deal only for it to be bought by businessman Bruce Krall for $700,000.
Krall put the town up for sale again in 2006 for a starting price of $1.75m. According to the BBC News website, the price included three cows, eight houses, and a post office.
Los Angeles-based entertainment manager and college student Daniel Thomas La Paille, 25, purchased the town on August 3, 2006 from Krall. La Paille paid $1.25 million, the money coming from his own entertainment management work as well as from his mother and grandmother.
In an interview with the Times-Standard, La Paille said, "[Community] is very important in every aspect. We all have to live together. Bridgeville is going to be an example. We're going to ... show that we can be environmentally conscious, good neighbors and just create a special little community."
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Daniel La Paille committed suicide on November 9, 2006. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the chest.
On June 29, 2007, Bridgeville was on the market with a $1.3 million price tag for at least several months. This was the third time in five years that Bridgeville had been listed for sale.
In June 2013, Steve Farzam, the COO of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California, entrepreneur, and serial fraudster, offered to purchase Bridgeville for $900,000 from Daniel La Paille's mother. Steve Farzam had his development team visit the town, where they met with the County Board of Supervisors. According to Humboldt County Supervisor Estelle Fennell, Farzam wanted to start his own police force in Bridgeville, for which he would need the approval of the county sheriff. According to one of Farzam's colleagues, Farzam said he would not buy the town if he was unable to start a police department. According to Fennell, the sheriff was adamant that there would be no changes to law enforcement in Bridgeville and the deal never materialized.
Originally called Robinsons Crossing, it was renamed Bridgeport when a bridge was built across the Van Duzen River in 1875. The post office rejected Bridgeport as a name because of another Bridgeport (in Mono County), and the Bridgeville post office opened in 1877. Robinsons Crossing was named in honor of William Slaughter Robinson, a local rancher.
The 83-acre town became famous in 2002 for being the first in history to be put up for auction on eBay. It was originally sold for $1.77m but the buyer backed out of the deal only for it to be bought by businessman Bruce Krall for $700,000.
Krall put the town up for sale again in 2006 for a starting price of $1.75m. According to the BBC News website, the price included three cows, eight houses, and a post office.
Los Angeles-based entertainment manager and college student Daniel Thomas La Paille, 25, purchased the town on August 3, 2006 from Krall. La Paille paid $1.25 million, the money coming from his own entertainment management work as well as from his mother and grandmother.
In an interview with the Times-Standard, La Paille said, "[Community] is very important in every aspect. We all have to live together. Bridgeville is going to be an example. We're going to ... show that we can be environmentally conscious, good neighbors and just create a special little community."
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Daniel La Paille committed suicide on November 9, 2006. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the chest.
On June 29, 2007, Bridgeville was on the market with a $1.3 million price tag for at least several months. This was the third time in five years that Bridgeville had been listed for sale.
In June 2013, Steve Farzam, the COO of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California, entrepreneur, and serial fraudster, offered to purchase Bridgeville for $900,000 from Daniel La Paille's mother. Steve Farzam had his development team visit the town, where they met with the County Board of Supervisors. According to Humboldt County Supervisor Estelle Fennell, Farzam wanted to start his own police force in Bridgeville, for which he would need the approval of the county sheriff. According to one of Farzam's colleagues, Farzam said he would not buy the town if he was unable to start a police department. According to Fennell, the sheriff was adamant that there would be no changes to law enforcement in Bridgeville and the deal never materialized.
Well kids, decided to keep my 1.8M I've got lying around and let somebody else purchase Bridgeville.
Next day record heat predicted, 106 in Sacramento, I hate the heat plus I'm in full leathers so simple solution is up at 5am and head off into the darkness with an early start.
And a plan to stick to the mountains at higher elevations for a 10-hour non-stop 500-mile ride to reach home base by mid-afternoon.
But first I had to zip across the state from the coast to the northern edges of the Sierra Nevada Range.
First order of the day is ride Highway 36. 140 miles of non-stop twisties. At this hour there was zero traffic, and I counted about 10 cars in about 140 miles of curves.
Sun is starting to come over the horizon as I head due east
Next day record heat predicted, 106 in Sacramento, I hate the heat plus I'm in full leathers so simple solution is up at 5am and head off into the darkness with an early start.
And a plan to stick to the mountains at higher elevations for a 10-hour non-stop 500-mile ride to reach home base by mid-afternoon.
But first I had to zip across the state from the coast to the northern edges of the Sierra Nevada Range.
First order of the day is ride Highway 36. 140 miles of non-stop twisties. At this hour there was zero traffic, and I counted about 10 cars in about 140 miles of curves.
Sun is starting to come over the horizon as I head due east
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The plan
Highway 36 has been intermittently closed the last few years due to major construction, as the road has been re-engineered and essentially replaced and rebuilt.
What they replaced was a five-mile stretch we simply called the One-Lane Section. Hard to believe a major highway would have a section that's barely one-and-a-half-lane-wide, but it did, and it was super fun to ride.
Highway 36 has been intermittently closed the last few years due to major construction, as the road has been re-engineered and essentially replaced and rebuilt.
What they replaced was a five-mile stretch we simply called the One-Lane Section. Hard to believe a major highway would have a section that's barely one-and-a-half-lane-wide, but it did, and it was super fun to ride.
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Our fear, or least my fear, was they'd cut this all out and build a boring straight highway, this actually happened a few years ago when they did road straightening on the eastern side near Red Bluff, CalTrans took out a lot of the really crazy fast swoopy stuff, but instead, they laid the all-new modern highway over the original road bed, and it was superfast and super twisty. Surprise!
The revered legacy of NorCal's Highway 36 remains intact. And brand-new baby-bottom smooth pavement
The revered legacy of NorCal's Highway 36 remains intact. And brand-new baby-bottom smooth pavement
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Would you eat a burger out of the back of an old camper? This place is actually famous for being super-rude to customers.
The mid-section of Highway 36 is another fire zone from the same August 2020 Lightning storm that set over 400 fires at the same time.
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The August 2020 Complex Fire burned in mostly wilderness regions of NorCal.
Originally 38 separate lightning fires, they all converged and burned over 1M acres or about 1600 square miles of forest & nearly 1000 buildings. There are 40M people in California, but most don't realize a vast majority of California is wilderness regions
Two years earlier, I had ridden through a bunch of these remote paved backroads and photographed the roads along Alderpoint Rd & Zenia Bluff Rd, all burned up.
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Originally 38 separate lightning fires, they all converged and burned over 1M acres or about 1600 square miles of forest & nearly 1000 buildings. There are 40M people in California, but most don't realize a vast majority of California is wilderness regions
Two years earlier, I had ridden through a bunch of these remote paved backroads and photographed the roads along Alderpoint Rd & Zenia Bluff Rd, all burned up.
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Over three hours later, sun is starting to come up & am getting near Red Bluff
Despite all the construction and 'modernization' , Highway 36 still doesn't disappoint & is always delightful if not excessively long, 140 miles of twisties goes and goes and goes
Despite all the construction and 'modernization' , Highway 36 still doesn't disappoint & is always delightful if not excessively long, 140 miles of twisties goes and goes and goes
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Speaking of 140 Miles, there's a famous sign, simply called The Sign that's been moved, It's become a tourist attraction for bikers to come here. The county moved it 10 miles, and it now says 130 miles of curves. Who thinks of this stuff? It ain't broke.
The ride home: Temps are rising, and the only solution is to head up above 5000 feet and put on the cool vest
Headed up to Mount Lassen, At Mineral, there's a fun single lane back road on the south side of the mountain that's labeled as Highway 172 that connects over to Mill Creek and a collection of vacation homes. Always seems strange that a signed state highway would be barely wide enough for a vehicle. But can't dwell on that, great fun! Swoopy and curvaceous.
Headed up to Mount Lassen, At Mineral, there's a fun single lane back road on the south side of the mountain that's labeled as Highway 172 that connects over to Mill Creek and a collection of vacation homes. Always seems strange that a signed state highway would be barely wide enough for a vehicle. But can't dwell on that, great fun! Swoopy and curvaceous.
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