45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring
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Big Basin state park burned a few years ago in a huge wildfire in 2020. Nearly 100% of the park's 18,000 acres (28 square miles) burned.
The fire burned all the buildings down including the visitor center and campground.
It's taken a few years for the park to reopen & the redwood forest is quite charred, but growing back.
Several years ago I designed this motorcycle tour to focus on the Pacific Coastline and particularly the Big Sur Coastline. What I could not have known was one of my favorite goat trail roads would be closed a few months later due to winter rains.
Nacimiento is a famous road in local riding circles. It's the only paved road up and over the Coast Range along the Pacific Ocean.
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This was the original plan for this motorcycle tour
Nacimiento is a famous road in local riding circles. It's the only paved road up and over the Coast Range along the Pacific Ocean.
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This was the original plan for this motorcycle tour
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Super fun road and amazing views from the summit overlooking the ocean.
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Really goaty and mostly single lane over the range
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Really goaty and mostly single lane over the range
The highlight of Nacimiento Rd is the twisty decent from the summit to the Pacific Ocean. The views are straight off a magazine cover.
For many years, we'd just ride Highway 1, but turn off the main highway and ride inland up to the summit, then ride right back down to the ocean just for the views of the Big Sur Coastline.
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For many years, we'd just ride Highway 1, but turn off the main highway and ride inland up to the summit, then ride right back down to the ocean just for the views of the Big Sur Coastline.
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But... Not only was Nacimiento Rd still not open, who knows if they'll ever fix it, Highway 1 also fell off into the ocean a few months back and that was closed too. So a whole new plan was needed.
Highway 25 is a local favorite, the northern end has loonnnggg straights. Middle of nowhere stuff. It goes for 60 miles. No people.
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Highway 25 is a local favorite, the northern end has loonnnggg straights. Middle of nowhere stuff. It goes for 60 miles. No people.
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Out of state riders often have different reactions to our roads here in California. My experience over the last 20 years of leading organized motorcycle tours is some are overwhelmed, having never seen endless twisties or the varieties we have: superfast twisties, single lane twisties, mountain twisties, bumpy twisties. Others are tickled pink. Beside themselves with glee. Peter was the latter. And he was riding his Diavel.
We have never had a Ducati Diavel on a tour. 20 years. Until today. It has a Mad Max-inspired retro-futuristic theme and a wide 240 tire in the rear. Peter is originally from Poland, but currently owns a construction firm in Dallas, Texas. He has family in Santa Cruz & shipped his Xdiavel from TX to CA with the intention of leaving it here in CA and signed up for this motorcycle tour to explore the local roads, saying he had no idea what to expect.
He also has a Ducati Streetfighter (of course he does!) that he's keeping in Dallas, Texas. Handy to have two bikes and position them in different parts of the country.
The Xdiavel is a 1200cc power cruiser and has forward controls & a belt final drive. It will do 0-60 in under 3 seconds & at the time of its launch in 2016, it was Ducati's fastest accelerating motorcycle. It handled our endless twisties just fine.
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Everything I read about those says they are really cool...or a complete lemon...sounds like the Gen3
lmao
Chicks dig car engines in moto frames...
Can't really get my head around what it would be like to ride one of these monsters.
I havn't ridden one, but I'm betting very tame and mild mannered.
They accelerate like 1000cc sportbikes to 60-80mph, then the sportbikes walk away, but the Rocket3 is still very impressive.
If you've every seen Zack and Ari test bikes on youtube, they have a good one.
I knew there was a motorcycle museum in Monterey. But what I thinking of was some pics I had seen a couple of years ago of about 50 bikes in a storefront somewhere in Monterey, a place known as the Jamison's Classic Motorcycle Museum in Pacific Grove. However, a quick internet search and I also came up with the Talbott Museum in Carmel Valley, right along our planned route. Perfect. We were greeted at the door by two stately fellows, one of the gray-haired fellas said would you like a tour? You betcha, I said in my best Wisconsin accent.
As we followed our docent through the museum, and he began to regale stories of every bike we were looking at, I slowly began to notice all the pictures on the wall were pictures of our docent. This was his museum (I had no idea), and these were his personal bikes he had ridden. These weren't collectible bikes some guys sourced at an auction; these were our docent’s bikes. I was floored.
I had never heard of Robb Talbott, but seems he's a pretty famous guy in local circles. Owner of Talbott Vineyards. Robb is 75 and rather spry, pulling us through the museum with his magnetism and overflowing charisma. He talked about the early-70s like it was yesterday, and every bike in the museum had a story he began to tell (like it was yesterday).
As we followed our docent through the museum, and he began to regale stories of every bike we were looking at, I slowly began to notice all the pictures on the wall were pictures of our docent. This was his museum (I had no idea), and these were his personal bikes he had ridden. These weren't collectible bikes some guys sourced at an auction; these were our docent’s bikes. I was floored.
I had never heard of Robb Talbott, but seems he's a pretty famous guy in local circles. Owner of Talbott Vineyards. Robb is 75 and rather spry, pulling us through the museum with his magnetism and overflowing charisma. He talked about the early-70s like it was yesterday, and every bike in the museum had a story he began to tell (like it was yesterday).
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