45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring
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It was getting to be about mid-day and Robb asked, you guys hungry? There's a deli next tour.
So this super famous guy with his crazy awesome museum personally walked our tour group next door and we all got sandwiches.
Then Robb sat down and had lunch with us in front of his museum, while we all talked bikes.
So this super famous guy with his crazy awesome museum personally walked our tour group next door and we all got sandwiches.
Then Robb sat down and had lunch with us in front of his museum, while we all talked bikes.
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As we had lunch, Robb pointed across the parking lot, that's my daily driver. He was pointing at a Jaguar parked nearby. Of course this guy would drive a vintage Jaguar Mark IX touring car to work each day as his daily driver, if you called his personal museum 'work'.
I thought to myself this is how all of us would aspire to spend our retirement, surrounded in our own personal museum to our life's work and the many many motorcycles we had acquired and raced through the decades.
Super fascinating guy. Amazing museum to visit.
www.mototalbott.com
More about Robb>> Moto Talbott Museum
I thought to myself this is how all of us would aspire to spend our retirement, surrounded in our own personal museum to our life's work and the many many motorcycles we had acquired and raced through the decades.
Super fascinating guy. Amazing museum to visit.
Moto Talbott Museum—Official Site
The non-profit Moto Talbott museum in Carmel, California, features more than 150 iconic motorcycles from 12 countries, and is located on one of Northern California’s most beautiful motorcycle roads. Learn more and plan your visit.
www.mototalbott.com
More about Robb>> Moto Talbott Museum
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We bade Robb goodbye and thanked him for his hospitality. During the time we were there at his Talbott Museum, we had the motorcycle museum almost entirely to ourselves and the full attention of the owner Robb.
Couldn't have timed that better and it was a wise decision to visit in the morning.
We're in Carmel Valley which is a few miles from Monterey, and the ocean. The plan was to spend the afternoon along Highway 1 Big Sur, only problem was the highway was closed from a slide a full year ago. Highway 1 had been closed for quite a long time while CalTrans endeavors to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Highway 1 is closed at the mid-point of the 75-mile length, but you can ride the first 30 miles through Big Sur to the slide south of Lucia and then backtracking north. CalTrans finally announced an opening date of Spring 2024. That's good since our next planned tour is fall 2024 along this route. Hopefully we get through a winter without the crazy winter rains we had a year ago.
Current state of Paul's Slide - Nov 2023
Some of these slides last couple years have been huge. The Mud Creek Slide a couple of years ago, it redrew the coastline.
CalTrans simple cut through the slide and paved across it. Fixed.
Rat Creek Slide a couple years ago, this one, they simply filled it in and paved across it. Fixed.
Couldn't have timed that better and it was a wise decision to visit in the morning.
We're in Carmel Valley which is a few miles from Monterey, and the ocean. The plan was to spend the afternoon along Highway 1 Big Sur, only problem was the highway was closed from a slide a full year ago. Highway 1 had been closed for quite a long time while CalTrans endeavors to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Highway 1 is closed at the mid-point of the 75-mile length, but you can ride the first 30 miles through Big Sur to the slide south of Lucia and then backtracking north. CalTrans finally announced an opening date of Spring 2024. That's good since our next planned tour is fall 2024 along this route. Hopefully we get through a winter without the crazy winter rains we had a year ago.
Current state of Paul's Slide - Nov 2023
Some of these slides last couple years have been huge. The Mud Creek Slide a couple of years ago, it redrew the coastline.
CalTrans simple cut through the slide and paved across it. Fixed.
Rat Creek Slide a couple years ago, this one, they simply filled it in and paved across it. Fixed.
Headed south along Highway 1 Big Sur, foggy day.
Despite the road being closed 20 miles ahead, lots of people still had the same idea we did and pretty busy at the iconic Bixby Bridge
The rule is if it's foggy, just ride around the next corner. Sometimes it mysteriously disappears and suddenly it's bright blue open skies
Despite the road being closed 20 miles ahead, lots of people still had the same idea we did and pretty busy at the iconic Bixby Bridge
The rule is if it's foggy, just ride around the next corner. Sometimes it mysteriously disappears and suddenly it's bright blue open skies
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CA Highway 1 Big Sur Coast | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Best Central California Motorcycle Rides - Ride Big Sur Pacific Coastline
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We were surprised to look out over the ocean and see a California Condor. These birds have the largest wingspan of any bird and recently were almost extinct.
The wingspans can be 10 feet. California Condors became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured. Only 27 California Condors remained anywhere. They've been held in captivity for years and have slowly been re-introduced to the California coastline, Northern Arizona & Southern Utah. It's a real treat to see one in the wild. They are huge. The birds can be nearly 30 lbs and live to be 60 years old. Every single condor in the wild is tracked and studied. Their population has grown to nearly 600, but the California condor remains one of the world's rarest bird species so it was a real treat to see one flying below us above the ocean.
Ever get a chance to ride Highway 1 Big Sur, you should. It's amazing. Sensory overload.
CA Highway 1 Big Sur Coast | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Best Central California Motorcycle Rides - Ride Big Sur Pacific Coastline
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The ocean fog is a bit of luck and always hit or miss. Some years, I've ridden the 75-mile length of Highway 1 Big Sur and never saw the ocean due to the fog.
Other rides like today, the ocean is the deepest blue, the sky not a single cloud above and it's just plain awesome. Never gets old.
Peter is from Poland and currently based in Texas. He was beside himself with the view. Nothing out there but endless ocean.
He's already signed up for three more tours in 2024 and opted to leave his Ducati XDiavel in California with family so its already here when he commutes back and forth from Texas for more Pashnit Tours.
We'll see him again in April 2024 for the Shasta Coast Tour which is a ride across the Northern California Trinity Alps wilderness regions.
Other rides like today, the ocean is the deepest blue, the sky not a single cloud above and it's just plain awesome. Never gets old.
Peter is from Poland and currently based in Texas. He was beside himself with the view. Nothing out there but endless ocean.
He's already signed up for three more tours in 2024 and opted to leave his Ducati XDiavel in California with family so its already here when he commutes back and forth from Texas for more Pashnit Tours.
We'll see him again in April 2024 for the Shasta Coast Tour which is a ride across the Northern California Trinity Alps wilderness regions.
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It's a dead end road, so it was back the way we came
Don't let the girly girl appearance fool you, Cathy rails on her Kawasaki Z900, awesome rider, and oddly enough is one of my most senior tour alumni. She first rode on a Pashnit Tour in 2006, 17 years ago(!) and has become a familiar face lately doing 3 or 4 tours every season with us.
17 years of riding together.
Cathy down front in 2006 on her very first tour with us.
Cathy 17 years later still smilin', still riding with us on these tours.
The guide has a bit more facial hair.
Don't let the girly girl appearance fool you, Cathy rails on her Kawasaki Z900, awesome rider, and oddly enough is one of my most senior tour alumni. She first rode on a Pashnit Tour in 2006, 17 years ago(!) and has become a familiar face lately doing 3 or 4 tours every season with us.
17 years of riding together.
Cathy down front in 2006 on her very first tour with us.
Cathy 17 years later still smilin', still riding with us on these tours.
The guide has a bit more facial hair.
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I never pre-run new motorcycle tour ideas or routes - I get asked that a lot actually (if I do). But there's typically a lot of homework and study that goes into planning a new organized motorcycle tour.
I've got this new tour planned for the 2024 tour season to ride the three peaks the surround the San Francisco Bay Area. We call them the Three sisters, and there's always been an idea to ride all three peaks in one weekend. I was close by so it sounded like an awesome day ride to figure out the timing of the future tour and see if the ride was plausible & if it would flow smoothly.
Up and over Hecker Pass / Highway 152 at first light
Hecker Pass - Highway 152 is a short low, but twisty pass connecting Watsonville & Gilroy
I've got this new tour planned for the 2024 tour season to ride the three peaks the surround the San Francisco Bay Area. We call them the Three sisters, and there's always been an idea to ride all three peaks in one weekend. I was close by so it sounded like an awesome day ride to figure out the timing of the future tour and see if the ride was plausible & if it would flow smoothly.
Up and over Hecker Pass / Highway 152 at first light
Hecker Pass - Highway 152 is a short low, but twisty pass connecting Watsonville & Gilroy
It's called The Cube (for obvious reasons) and this used to be an Air Force military base in the 1950s through the 80s.
This mountain top that overlooks the South Bay is Mount Umunhum (I can't pronounce it either, we just call it Mt Um). The mountain is topped by an eight and a half story (84.5 feet tall) concrete radar tower (5 floors interior), known locally as "the Cube" or "the Box". The tower was part of Almaden Air Force Station, a radar surveillance post which operated from 1958 to 1980.
View west from the top, the range in the distance is the Santa Cruz Mountain Range & on the other side is the ocean.
The Cube, a radar tower which housed an 85.5-ton AN/FPS-24 radar, was completed in 1962 and used to watch for hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Its signal caused electronic interference in many radio, TV and sound systems within its 250-mile range on each rotation.
In the 1980s & 1990s, there was a long fight after the Air Force left. Many wanted it leveled and forgotten, regarding it as an eyesore. It finally gained a designation as official historic status & that prevented The Cube from being leveled. An entire community (of Air Force personnel) lived atop this mountain during The Cold War & all that was removed but for decades none of this was open to the public.
The Cube, a radar tower which housed an 85.5-ton AN/FPS-24 radar, was completed in 1962 and used to watch for hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Its signal caused electronic interference in many radio, TV and sound systems within its 250-mile range on each rotation.
In the 1980s & 1990s, there was a long fight after the Air Force left. Many wanted it leveled and forgotten, regarding it as an eyesore. It finally gained a designation as official historic status & that prevented The Cube from being leveled. An entire community (of Air Force personnel) lived atop this mountain during The Cold War & all that was removed but for decades none of this was open to the public.
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