45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring

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All I see in my mirrors are lights. Gets dark in the redwood forest.

 

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Highway 35 runs along the spine of the range

Backroads along the ocean: Higgins Canyon Rd > Purisma Creek Rd

 

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Tunitas Creek Rd is a favorite of every rider in the Santa Cruz Mountains, it heads up a forested canyon to the top of the range, mostly single lane

 

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Peter was from Texas. I don't think he had ever seen redwoods before.

 

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Although several of the riders were very local, Mike & Paul were 20 min from their home base

 

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Awesome tour group of riders. Some of us have been riding together for more than 15 years.

 

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In the Santa Cruz Mountains, all twisty roads lead to Alice's. But it's Friday & not much going on at Alice's up at Four Corners. During weekends, this place is covered in hundreds of bikes, and numerous exotic cars.

Highway 84 leads down the hill to La Honda & San Gregorio on the coast, it's a curvy ride and fast. A few miles away is the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, built in 1871. While most of the organized motorcycle tours I run are 95% repeat business, we were excited to have two new riders on this tour, Peter from Texas & Marty from Nevada, which meant a mandatory stop to check out the historic lighthouse at Pigeon Point.

 

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Lighthouses probably get boring after awhile, seen one, ya seen 'em all, but I still like lighthouses along the Pacific Coastline

 

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Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a chance for us to get off the bikes, and enjoy the perfect day along the ocean.

 

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Gazos Creek Rd > Cloverdale Rd > Pescadero Creek

Alpine Rd

This is Alpine Rd in the Santa Cruz Mountains, not my vid, but my buddy Andy shot this:

 

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Alpine Rd narrows down to single lane through the redwood forest

With lots of light dark sequences

 

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The ocean in the distance

Highway 35 > Bear Creek Rd > Highway 9 > Highway 35 > Bear Creek Rd > Highway 9

One of my favorite roads, the single lane portion of Highway 35, lots of blind corners but it had brand new pavement, super awesome!

 

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Highway 35. This is supposed to be a state highway. Go figure. Busa loves roads like this.

 

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Awesome tour group of riders. Some of us have been riding together for more than 15 years.

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Bunch of ol white hairs… Looks like you had a nice weather day for this trip. I’ve been at Alice’s in T shirt weather and within 2-3 miles of the ocean it was grey skies and freezing.

 

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Highway 35. This is supposed to be a state highway. Go figure. Busa loves roads like this.

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That's a state hiway? Looks like a paved goat path sure hate to encounter something large coming the other way in a corner....

Looks like a beautiful, peaceful place to ride though...

 

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Our ride through the Santa Cruz Mountain range.

Highway 9 is a famous road to the San Francisco Bay Area locals. Kinda a Deals Gap sort of thing.

In Boulder Creek, there's a small cafe built around a giant redwood tree. It's growing up through the middle of the building.

But good eats