2025 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
pashnit
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Remember that S-curve remark from a few posts ago?
Trimmer Springs Rd furthers the cause weaving with impunity along the edge of Pine Flat Reservoir. We’ve seen this reservoir with no water in it during previous years, but today it was nearly full, surrounded in the glow of California spring and bright yellow flowers. No way to get to the other side other than ride around the perimeter of the lake to continue our wandering journey southward through the Sierra Foothills.
Here's what non-stop s-curves look like on Trimmer Springs Rd:
Trimmer Springs Rd furthers the cause weaving with impunity along the edge of Pine Flat Reservoir. We’ve seen this reservoir with no water in it during previous years, but today it was nearly full, surrounded in the glow of California spring and bright yellow flowers. No way to get to the other side other than ride around the perimeter of the lake to continue our wandering journey southward through the Sierra Foothills.
Here's what non-stop s-curves look like on Trimmer Springs Rd:
pashnit
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Okay, funny, not funny. Comon it's funny.
Kids riding around on 205 horsepower motorcycles in jeans & sneakers is pure crazy to me, but hey, you do you.
Notice the stretched S1000RR looks awesome, but he removed all the brakes except the left front.
I get it, it's a thing.I was watching a video clip on the HANS device the other day, and the guy being interviewed was talking about the invention of the HANS device saying race car drivers didn't want to wear them when they first came out, and now days, you wouldn't set foot in a race car without wearing a HANS device- pure crazy to not be wearing one.
Seeing kids in sneakers is just that, they're kids. But then again, I rode 5000 miles across America in jeans & combat boots, I had no idea, that seems like a dumb idea 30 years later with my 53 yr old brain. But these days, I won't ride my 190 hp motorcycle without full armored leather. I've crashed bikes through the years sliding down the pavement at 65 mph (not a scratch), been hit head on by a truck (trip to the ER), and had a brain hemorrhage stroke (7 days in ICU) all while riding my motorcycle. But you do you.
The crew I ride with, we've all lately gone to wearing air vests now too. $800 for an air vests seems expensive but in the last 2-3 years, we've transcended to the point where it seems crazy to ride without one.
But you do you
CBXRider
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But they weren’t even laced up! 
I can remember being young and dumb too. I rode a new CB750-4 bored to 852ccs, jetted and piped and although I did wear boots I only wore a helmet at the dragstrip or out of state. Not surprisingly, in every bike crash I’ve seen on the internet when the rider was wearing low cut lace up soft sided shoes, they’re ripped from their feet.
I can remember being young and dumb too. I rode a new CB750-4 bored to 852ccs, jetted and piped and although I did wear boots I only wore a helmet at the dragstrip or out of state. Not surprisingly, in every bike crash I’ve seen on the internet when the rider was wearing low cut lace up soft sided shoes, they’re ripped from their feet.
pashnit
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For years, I've been blathering on about Highway 245 in the Central Sierra Nevada Foothills as one of the twistiest motorcycle roads in the state. I titled this road 'the 4-year-old in church' when I wrote the article for it, although if you've never been around little kids, or don't have kids of your own, you may not get that reference.
It's wiggly, it's frigidity, it never stops curving and it's non-stop energetic s-curves for miles. No commercial development along the length of this road except a small mountain biker bar at Mountain House.
That's it. Just a hurried plethora of curves.
Add it to your To-Do List. It's pure bliss.
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That's Sequoia NP & Kings Canyon NP at right, all the traffic is headed there, and everyone skips this road.
We'll be back here later in the year to ride Sequoia NP & Kings Canyon NP in August 2025. Awesome ride, and the ride into Kings Canyon drops 5000 ft into the canyon & back out again, it's the deepest mountain canyon in the United States you can ride into. The mountain tops above the canyon top out at 8000 ft.
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Yep, I once had a Buell. Well sort of. I put 1600 miles on it in 4 days and had to give it back.
This is Kings Canyon NP
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It's wiggly, it's frigidity, it never stops curving and it's non-stop energetic s-curves for miles. No commercial development along the length of this road except a small mountain biker bar at Mountain House.
That's it. Just a hurried plethora of curves.
Add it to your To-Do List. It's pure bliss.
Highway 245, Tulare County | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Ride Tulare County Motorcycle Roads, Central Sierra Nevada Foothills
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That's Sequoia NP & Kings Canyon NP at right, all the traffic is headed there, and everyone skips this road.
We'll be back here later in the year to ride Sequoia NP & Kings Canyon NP in August 2025. Awesome ride, and the ride into Kings Canyon drops 5000 ft into the canyon & back out again, it's the deepest mountain canyon in the United States you can ride into. The mountain tops above the canyon top out at 8000 ft.
Sequoia Motorcycle Tour | Pashnit Tours
Ride Tulare & Kern County motorcycle roads
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Yep, I once had a Buell. Well sort of. I put 1600 miles on it in 4 days and had to give it back.
This is Kings Canyon NP
Sequoia Motorcycle Tour | Pashnit Tours
Ride Tulare & Kern County motorcycle roads
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