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!