2021 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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In previous visits to Death Valley, we've gone to visit Scottys Castle, a sort of castle / private home built in the 1920s. Cool place to visit, but a flood a year ago took out the road, and left a foot of mud inside some of the buildings. Someday we'll go back when they rebuild the road.
In all my years of owning my <three> Hayabusa's, I've always run with radiator guards. These are items you think you'll never ever need, and in the last 170,000 miles traveling on a Busa, never once had an issue.
However, in Death Valley, all the bikes were reportedly kicking up a lot of rocks off the tires.
Our last stop of the day, and radiator fluid is shooting out of the KTM.
How do you fix a punctured radiator in the middle of the desert. We counted as many as five tiny holes.
Chewing gum. Yup, adding chewing gum to my tool kit.
However, in Death Valley, all the bikes were reportedly kicking up a lot of rocks off the tires.
Our last stop of the day, and radiator fluid is shooting out of the KTM.
How do you fix a punctured radiator in the middle of the desert. We counted as many as five tiny holes.
Chewing gum. Yup, adding chewing gum to my tool kit.
I had read about some sort of art installation at Owens Lake so set off to find it without any directions or signage
Owens Lake is famous for being drained by the city of Los Angeles for drinking water. Problem was the soil underneath the lake was toxic and the dust it produced. By 2013, this one lake was the largest producer of dust pollution in the entire United States. Periodic winds stir up noxious alkali dust storms that carry away as much as four million tons of dust from the lake bed each year.
Court battles ensued.
The rather unusual solution was to grade a maze of low single lane dirt roads across the lake bed and then flood the soil effectively wetting the soil and creating numerous shallow artificial ponds. Los Angeles still gets their water, the soil is now wet and doesn't create toxic dust storms. Win Win.
Owens Lake is famous for being drained by the city of Los Angeles for drinking water. Problem was the soil underneath the lake was toxic and the dust it produced. By 2013, this one lake was the largest producer of dust pollution in the entire United States. Periodic winds stir up noxious alkali dust storms that carry away as much as four million tons of dust from the lake bed each year.
Court battles ensued.
The rather unusual solution was to grade a maze of low single lane dirt roads across the lake bed and then flood the soil effectively wetting the soil and creating numerous shallow artificial ponds. Los Angeles still gets their water, the soil is now wet and doesn't create toxic dust storms. Win Win.
They could be waves. Really.
Owens Lake is also the beginning of the Highway 395 corridor. A long length of road that borders the eastern Sierra Nevada Range.
I've been writing a series of articles about the Highway 395 corridor. Fun place to bring motorcycle tour groups. Lots to check out and see, and I needed stock photography for a couple articles I've been writing.
Curious about this? I was.
Owens Lake is also the beginning of the Highway 395 corridor. A long length of road that borders the eastern Sierra Nevada Range.
I've been writing a series of articles about the Highway 395 corridor. Fun place to bring motorcycle tour groups. Lots to check out and see, and I needed stock photography for a couple articles I've been writing.
Curious about this? I was.
Stopped by Manzanar War Internment Camp. If you skipped your US History 101, you really ought to read this:
This is the article I wrote on the WWII internment camp. Fascinating stuff!
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