2022 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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Any Alfred Hitchcock fans in the crowd?
This is the school house from 'The Birds' movie.
Chilllin' out in Bodega, I stumbled into the town parade. Not even sure what it was for. There was just a parade, custom cars, the fire trucks, the works. And there was candy.
I did get some candy thrown at me, so there's that. And sweet MGB.
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15 years ago, back in 2007, I designed an organized motorcycle tour for the 2008 ride season I called The Goat Trail Tour. If you’re not familiar with that term, it refers to a <paved> road fit only for goats. Tight, narrow, often single lane, endlessly twisty, California is full of these types of roads if you seek them out. It may seem to be an odd choice to ride a Hayabusa on narrow, twisty backroads, but this bike does all things well.
I led my new Goat Trail tour along the northern California coastal mountains that season, the route rode as many narrow backroads as I could glue together along the Pacific Coastline from San Francisco to Leggett. That was 14 ride seasons ago. The original idea was to ride every available single lane paved backroad along the Northern Coast from Sausalito to Fortuna.
We only did this tour a couple of years and I felt, in the end, the tour was a little overwhelming for our out-of-state riders and riders on Very-Large-Motorcycles. No one seemed to actually read the ride description ahead of time, despite the word ‘Goat’ being in the title. One guy showed up on a Harley Road Glide sidecar rig. Another a Can-Am Spyder, still another on a rental Harley he’d just picked up, and another guy rode my Goat Trail Tour on a Honda Goldwing. Wait, what?
It lasted three seasons before I threw in the towel on that idea. It got retired & replaced with a tour of Death Valley instead. Been playing with the mapping program again, and working on a route for 2023 to just ride Marin, Sonoma & Mendocino Counties along the Northern Pacific Coast. Figured I would pre-run my idea and see if the route through the backroads of Marin County made sense.
This will be our playground for my new tour idea
It lasted three seasons before I threw in the towel on that idea. It got retired & replaced with a tour of Death Valley instead. Been playing with the mapping program again, and working on a route for 2023 to just ride Marin, Sonoma & Mendocino Counties along the Northern Pacific Coast. Figured I would pre-run my idea and see if the route through the backroads of Marin County made sense.
This will be our playground for my new tour idea
The new motorcycle tour is set for late in the 2023 season.
www.pashnittours.com
The Coastal Mountains north of San Francisco are the focus of this all-new motorcycle tour for 2023 centered on Marin, Sonoma & Mendocino Counties being the highlight of the tour.
I think I timed that just right, getting back to home base. Got max use out of this tire.
In case you're wondering, I got 3949 miles out of this Avon & not much left on the sides.
Ready for the next ride.
Marin | Pashnit Motorcycle Tour
Ride Marin Sonoma Mendocino Coast Range along the Pacific Ocean
www.pashnittours.com
The Coastal Mountains north of San Francisco are the focus of this all-new motorcycle tour for 2023 centered on Marin, Sonoma & Mendocino Counties being the highlight of the tour.
I think I timed that just right, getting back to home base. Got max use out of this tire.
In case you're wondering, I got 3949 miles out of this Avon & not much left on the sides.
Ready for the next ride.
Northern California Motorcycle Tour
This will be my last tour on my '08, as this bike has been sold. (yes, an ORG member bought it - up to them if they want to post they have it)
I have said this before, but our Northern California Motorcycle Tour was the very first organized motorcycle tour ever offered in May 2004. That seems like a lifetime ago. And, it was.
My oldest was barely a toddler, she’s 21 now & in her 3rd year of college.
First motorcycle tour I ever led. We're headed to the same exact spot nearly 20 years later.
I had dropped the Northern California tour from the lineup for a few years recently, but we all missed it so much, it got added back. This tour meets in Sausalito on the northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge, so I normally head down very early in the morning to meet the tour group. Takes me 2.5 hours to get there, and we meet at 7am.
First motorcycle tour meeting in San Francisco - May 2004
This will be my last tour on my '08, as this bike has been sold. (yes, an ORG member bought it - up to them if they want to post they have it)
I have said this before, but our Northern California Motorcycle Tour was the very first organized motorcycle tour ever offered in May 2004. That seems like a lifetime ago. And, it was.
My oldest was barely a toddler, she’s 21 now & in her 3rd year of college.
First motorcycle tour I ever led. We're headed to the same exact spot nearly 20 years later.
I had dropped the Northern California tour from the lineup for a few years recently, but we all missed it so much, it got added back. This tour meets in Sausalito on the northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge, so I normally head down very early in the morning to meet the tour group. Takes me 2.5 hours to get there, and we meet at 7am.
First motorcycle tour meeting in San Francisco - May 2004
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Heavy fog at the Golden Gate Bridge.
20 years later - I arrive early - as usual.
Riding right out onto the seawall, I don't think this is allowed, but it's too early for anybody to tell me no.
Yellow lens Clearwater lights are crazy bright.
20 years later - I arrive early - as usual.
Riding right out onto the seawall, I don't think this is allowed, but it's too early for anybody to tell me no.
Yellow lens Clearwater lights are crazy bright.
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Nothing more pretty than a gaggle of bikes takin' over the place.
Bruce and I have been riding together for a good 10 years. He's the only guy I know that rides big bikes always and tosses them around in the backroads like toys. He normally rides a custom Victory, but today brought his Goldwing.
Make sure we got everybody. I can barely see the last bike, but I can see Mark's Clearwater Lights, they're so bright. Got everybody.
Love guys that show up on bone stock sportbikes to do these rides. We constantly say you can tour on anything. Gary loves to tour on his GSX-R1000 and for this ride, left his GSX-S1000GT at home
Gary's other bike
Love guys that show up on bone stock sportbikes to do these rides. We constantly say you can tour on anything. Gary loves to tour on his GSX-R1000 and for this ride, left his GSX-S1000GT at home
Gary's other bike
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I got my copy of Rider Magazine recently. Surprise! On the cover was Bolinas Ridge. This is the exact spot we took the group, we were just there with the group. It's that kind of place, magazine cover views everywhere you look. What's interesting is several of the riders were local to the East Bay and said they have never been up here or knew of this place. Love that.
That inlet into the lagoon, that exactly where I was a few posts back
No super green meadows of grass this time of year, no rain for many months, and it's all golden brown up here.
That inlet into the lagoon, that exactly where I was a few posts back
No super green meadows of grass this time of year, no rain for many months, and it's all golden brown up here.
See the marine layer out over the ocean, that's how the redwood forest survives without rain
There's no rain here for months at a time, however, the redwood trees create their own rain. The fog flows through the trees, and the redwood catches the moisture, and the moisture condenses on specialized redwood tree needles that catch the fog. The fog condenses and drips down through the canopy and drops as rain. The trees feed themselves.
Same spot, same picture, same hilltop, what a difference between April & August.
There's no rain here for months at a time, however, the redwood trees create their own rain. The fog flows through the trees, and the redwood catches the moisture, and the moisture condenses on specialized redwood tree needles that catch the fog. The fog condenses and drips down through the canopy and drops as rain. The trees feed themselves.
Same spot, same picture, same hilltop, what a difference between April & August.
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