2022 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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Bring a good set of binoculars, and you'll always see people on the sheer rock face climbing it. Nope.

 

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Notice anything weird? There's nobody here.

Whole place to myself.

 

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It's a crazy place that defies the senses.

 

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Not much water, but this coming spring during snowmelt, these massive waterfalls will be huge.

 

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Amazing place.

 

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This steep section is known as Old Priest Grade. It's a 17% grade & goes straight down.
The bypass for cars & trucks is over in the distance. The smell of brakes is always in the air here.

 

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Central Pacific Coast Tour

The last tour of our ride season is the closer, the finisher, the culmination of over 10,000 miles spent riding together.

I have spent over 30 days on the bike this year, and the last tour of the ride season is an exhale. Always busy, always full and always a North meets South ride as it’s become tradition to ride the Central Coast Range in between San Francisco & Los Angeles.

The group meets up in the South Bay at Mark's house. His garage is full of Triumphs. I have been offering this motorcycle tour for nearly 20 years but keep changing subtle things like the route, stops, and our base for the weekend.

My Hayabusa has been sold & I'm looking for another one. Parked my TL1000R for this last ride of the season while Mark offered me one of his bikes. I'll take that red one.

 

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Mark rolls out his 2-stroke RD that was recently restored.

Remember two-strokes - can never forget that smell. And the sound.

It's one of Mark's original bikes, he still has it.

 

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Inside Mark's garage. He has a thing for Triumphs.

 

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Good variety of bikes in this group

 

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They're giving me the stinkeye, that means we have to ride.

 

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Roads near Mark's House

Up and over Hecker Pass towards the Coast

Dropping into Watsonville, farmland as far as you can see, which isn't far as we're a few miles from the ocean, and the marine layer is slowly burning off.