2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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You're looking at the San Andreas Fault. It's out in the ocean south of here as it passes San Francisco, but Tomales Bay is the Fault strip as it heads down to Bolinas. Everything on the Ocean Side is moving upwards towards Alaska about an inch a year. Everything East is the North American Plate.

You can really feel in tune with your planet as Highway 1, on the northeast side of Tomales Bay, has some great curves that also go up and down. So if you are riding quickly, the limitations on sport riding aren't just two dimensional lean angle and contact patch, you get to a place where you actually feel gravity dialing in and out as the curves climb and dip. Riding that turns your bike into a gravitometer. Recommended.

 

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Reaching Highway 1 and this tree tunnel

There's an old cemetery here - taking a break & finding the oldest gravestone

 

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Uh oh, known only as a Cruiser man, Bruce is trying out Mark's Tiger. Surprise! He bought a KTM soon after this tour.

Another sunset over the ocean, never gets old!

 

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First light & back on the road

There's a reason they call it the Golden hour

 

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We had so much fun on Mountain View Rd yesterday, I wanted to ride it again, what a fun road!

30 years ago I took this photo in the same spot with my Yamaha Venture, that enlarged pic sat on my wall for years. Re-trying to take it again.

 

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Inside the forest, no sun yet, starting out early also means no other traffic & I've got the road all to myself

 

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left, right

right, left

And that view!

 

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Niiiice shots Tim. The road looks great! How’d that Indian rider like throwing around a half ton in the twisties? His clearance can’t be much, any sparks? I followed a couple baggers with CD plates between Leggett and the ocean and they were gettin right to it so to speak. Sparks were flying early every corner! Lotta fun to watch.

 

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All these views are just a random spot in the forest along Mountain View Rd - this road parallels the main Highway 128 in the river valley below which is probably why there's zero traffic on it.

See all that green stuff? Yeah, you won't stick to that. Especially when it's wet.

Views across the Coast Range, what a playground!

 

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Not exactly fall in New England, but these are our fall colors in California. We'll enjoy it while it lasts.

 

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Do you ever get tired of taking pictures of your bike? Not when you own a Hayabusa.

 

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Does anybody actually live out here? Sort of. But this house was abandoned.

 

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Best part is the eastern leg of this road narrows to single lane through the Redwood Forest - and it's brand new pavement. Sweet!

 

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At the base of the range is this tiny park - Faulkner Park in the redwoods

Perfect place to take a break and relax

 

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Headed over to Highway 175 - Hopland Grade

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Acres and acres of grapes - every valley has another winery

 

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Saying goodbye to the Coast Range in the distance, we'll be back

Top of the range, 4342 ft Mount Saint Helena in the distance

Between the ridges, are orchards and grapes everywhere

 

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Butts Canyon Rd

I'm not the only one out here enjoying our awesome roads

Few months ago, learned that there's an all new NorCal Rossi's Driveway (if Rossi had a driveway, this would be it)