2022 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

[pashnit]

At the top is a narrow walkway that encircles the lighthouse, allowing you to look straight down in a vertigo inducing experience. Plus no one tells you about the wind, it was mild this day, but as you stand in the top of the lighthouse, you can feel it moving around you. That’s a bit unnerving.

 

[pashnit]

They would make these lighthouses lenses in France, piece by piece, then drop the lens pieces into a barrel of molasses to keep them safe for the long passage, and ship them around the southern tip of South America to California, then reassemble the many pieces like a giant puzzle.

This lens weighs 6 tons. It would spin 24 hours a day.

To make it spin, they would float the 6 ton lens in a vat of liquid mercury - Just the 5 gallons of liquid mercury weighed 600 lbs.

 

[pashnit]

Remember breaking open liquid thermometers as a kid, getting the mercury out and playing with it in your hands. Yeah, that stuff is sort of poisonous, even the fumes are poisonous, much less what do you do with 600-lbs of the stuff.

 

[pashnit]

 

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[pashnit]

Masks are long-since done in California, but the park service still required it up in the lens

These spiral stairs predate the rebuilding of the lighthouse in 1907 after it was damaged in the 1906 earthquake. The one thing that's original from the 1870 lighthouse.

 

[pashnit]

That view...

 

[pashnit]

The best part is the walkway around the top. You step out here and get a blast of wind in your face.

 

[pashnit]

Vertigo anyone?

That giant lens that weighed six tons sitting in 600lbs of liquid mercury was replaced with this.

 

[pashnit]

 

[pashnit]

Straight down

Those breakers out there are a hidden rock that has destroyed numerous sailing ships over the years.

 

[pashnit]

The problem with a big beard is the wind grabs it like a sail and whips your head around.
No one tells you that in the brochure. Big boy problems.

 

[pashnit]

Our tour group - good bunch of guys

 

[60+ Busa Rider]

Here's the video that Tom put together for this ride.

We do this tour every year, but it normally sells out nearly a year in advance.

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Love the video

 

[60+ Busa Rider]

Same hairpin 20 years later

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I had the same bike, loved it!

 

[mabupa]

I didn't keep the Corbin. I let the new buyer take it. It's a good tour seat. I have put a lot of miles on it (60k+?) I did both my IBA 1000-mile day rides on this seat. Don't recall where I got it, probably used off this site. I only paid $100 for it. I've bought a lot of used stuff from members on this site. Although I've made that mistake before of not keeping the custom stuff, and then re-buying the same bike several years later. I've done that not once, but twice.

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I did keep the custom engraved Galfer wave rotors. Those, I couldn't part with. I had them custom-made and they were very expensive. I need to mount them to my wall. I put the stock back on for the new buyer. But I have bought a Gen-II '08 blue/gold Busa twice now, I don't think I'm going to get another Gen-II. It's time for a Gen-III.

And yes, Texas. And yes, it was another ORG member that bought this bike.

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Don’t blame you for not wanting to let the rotors go. Those things are beautiful. I remember you were pretty excited to get those and the custom levers. Hope you can be happy with a gen3 but it’ll be hard for you to be happy with any other color but blue.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

I bet he chooses a black or silver.

Say Tim, you ride several multi day tours throughout the year, somewhat similar to my longer rides, starting and stopping several times a day, overnights in cold motel parking lots etc. Take a look at my battery test thread in the maintenance section. Which battery have you liked over the years?

 

[pashnit]

I had the same bike, loved it!

The ZX-11D was the king of the hill for a short while before the Hayabusa ever existed. I put 30k on mine in a year, rode it all over the place & loved this bike.

Original ad in Cycle Trader of the bike I bought in 1997.

 

[pashnit]

hard for you to be happy with any other color but blue.

Haha! When they come out with a blue Gen-III, I'm getting one. I've owned three blue Hayabusas.

This is my bike (someday)

 

[pashnit]

I bet he chooses a black or silver.

Say Tim, you ride several multi day tours throughout the year, somewhat similar to my longer rides, starting and stopping several times a day, overnights in cold motel parking lots etc. Take a look at my battery test thread in the maintenance section. Which battery have you liked over the years?

It'll be black. wink wink

Odd answer on batteries, but I prefer the stock, or just a normal sealed Yuasa. I do replace them likely more often than recommended, every 2–4 years, perhaps. They're cheap and easy to replace. I have never tried one of the Lithium batteries, although there is endless debate about them. I don't care about the weight savings, so that's not a draw for me. And I'm always running a lot of accessories, phone, extra lights, etc.