2022 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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Using all the tire
But not much tire left
Picture of Shame.
We gave poor Chad a hard time for showing up for a 1000-mile weekend on a near bald tire. In Chad's defense, note the paper license plate. He just bought the bike and this was the tire it came with. But still. That's not gonna make it for the rest of the ride. Chad headed home to get a new tire.
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Lake Oroville, you may remember, made the world news a few years ago when the emergency overflow spillway collapsed during a wet year, and they thought the largest earthen dam in the United States would collapse. They tried to evacuate the entire 20,000 people in the town of Oroville.
After the water subsided (below), the finger pointing started, and they very hastily rebuilt the spillway.
After the water subsided (below), the finger pointing started, and they very hastily rebuilt the spillway.
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The suspension bridge that resembles the Golden Gate Bridge is the start of the Oroville Quincy Highway, super fun ride up and over the range, zero traffic, it goes, and goes, and goes.
Lake Oroville at the bottom left, note Paradise at the middle-left, the site of the 2018 Camp Fire. We used to run through there with tours, but since the fire, haven't been back since. The entire town burned down & 85 people died in the wildfire when the fire spread so fast, people couldn't escape the firestorm & 18,000 structures, homes, businesses were destroyed.
The 2018 Camp Fire was regarded as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018.
My brother does Search & Rescue and he & his team helped out with searching for bodies, life-changing experience he said. Nope. Not for me.
Lake Oroville at the bottom left, note Paradise at the middle-left, the site of the 2018 Camp Fire. We used to run through there with tours, but since the fire, haven't been back since. The entire town burned down & 85 people died in the wildfire when the fire spread so fast, people couldn't escape the firestorm & 18,000 structures, homes, businesses were destroyed.
The 2018 Camp Fire was regarded as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018.
My brother does Search & Rescue and he & his team helped out with searching for bodies, life-changing experience he said. Nope. Not for me.
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Next day, it was the Canadian who was complaining how cold it was.
Aren't you from Canada? Isn't it cold up there?
We're up in the mountains, it's 3° out.
I don't have any sympathy. There's no such thing as a cold rider, only an unprepared rider we chide.
Layer up and let's ride
Aren't you from Canada? Isn't it cold up there?
We're up in the mountains, it's 3° out.
I don't have any sympathy. There's no such thing as a cold rider, only an unprepared rider we chide.
Layer up and let's ride
We had to ride through Greenville. Really a sad place. Here's a tiny ranching town dating to at least the 1880s where the entire town burned down a year ago.
There used to be buildings here and cute Victorian houses here. It's tiny, about a 1000 people. I've ridden through here many times through the years, but it's sad there's no more town. You can still see the fire scar in the surrounding hills from the 2021 Dixie Fire. It came over the ridge, and got into the town.
Dixie Fire - Wikipedia
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Along Highway 36 - we've got this mini-canyon
The peak barely visible in the distance is 8400 ft Mount Lassen
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The peak barely visible in the distance is 8400 ft Mount Lassen
Highway 89 Mount Lassen | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Ride over Mount Lassen, CA Motorcycle Roads
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Since 2023 will be the 20th anniversary year of leading motorcycle tours on a Hayabusa, and these weekend rides are planned at about 1000 miles each, works out to I've led about 200,000 miles of motorcycle tours. I have owned other bikes, but the vast majority of these rides have been with my (3) Hayabusa(s).
Next year in 2023 will be the busiest year I've ever planned, so I've got 16 tours planned (& already sold out) so planning on traveling 20,000 miles in 2023 on a new 2022 Hayabusa.
Exciting stuff!
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The whole concept you dreamed up to start these tours, and turn it into a business, and 20 years of it, is Awesome.
I would love to get out there and go on one someday, if there wasn't 3k miles between us, I'de go every year.
Thanks for all of the years of cool pictures.
I would love to get out there and go on one someday, if there wasn't 3k miles between us, I'de go every year.
Thanks for all of the years of cool pictures.
The good thing about the cold temps up in the mountains is dropping out of the range and headed for lower elevations means perfect temps midday. We never go to Redding & my plan was to ride right through it. It's always hot there. 100 degrees is a normal day. But with mid-70s temps predicted midday, that made it the perfect opportunity to swing by Sundial Bridge. I had never been there, and we were going to ride right past it. It was built in 2004 so that tells you how many years I've been riding right by it.
The Sundial Bridge spans the Sacramento River in Redding. It's interesting and well-worth the visit.
The Sundial Bridge spans the Sacramento River in Redding. It's interesting and well-worth the visit.
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