My Northern California Trip on the Hawk
08-12-2008, 09:49 PM
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My Northern California Trip on the Hawk
Hi all,
I just wanted to share a few pics from the 4 day motorcycle trip I just got back from to Northern California. I left on Fri and came home on monday. I covered about 1200 miles with my dad who was on a cb 750c. We had an awesome time getting to the Avenue of the Giants where the huge redwoods are. It was an amazing sight I have to admit more spectacular then I had even thought. Some of the highlights getting there where the Oregon coast view, we stayed at Humbug Mt State park in southern Oregon the first night and ended up at the redwoods on day 2. My dad was a beginner rider so we took it easy. I have to admit though I did have a few laughs. I always told him he would drop his bike eventually and he always told me he was going to be different then most so when he stalled and dropped his bike it was worth a laugh after I asked him if he was ok and picked his bike back up. He learned a valuable lesson that day. He is no different then the rest of us riders. Day two went flawlessly, but on day 3 I let my dad take the reigns of the hawk to feel the difference in torque and suspension. Two minutes later he's geting pulled over by the CHP I am not joking it really was only two minutes. The end result he was doing 83 in a 65 and could not get out of the ticket, although the officer was gracious enough to reduce it on the ticket to 73. The humor for me is my dad has never had a ticket and he drives normally like a grandma in a car, but on my superhawk he gets himself his first ticket.
P.S. What do you think of my sissy bar I made it myself? Also notice my on the fly needle adjustment.
I just wanted to share a few pics from the 4 day motorcycle trip I just got back from to Northern California. I left on Fri and came home on monday. I covered about 1200 miles with my dad who was on a cb 750c. We had an awesome time getting to the Avenue of the Giants where the huge redwoods are. It was an amazing sight I have to admit more spectacular then I had even thought. Some of the highlights getting there where the Oregon coast view, we stayed at Humbug Mt State park in southern Oregon the first night and ended up at the redwoods on day 2. My dad was a beginner rider so we took it easy. I have to admit though I did have a few laughs. I always told him he would drop his bike eventually and he always told me he was going to be different then most so when he stalled and dropped his bike it was worth a laugh after I asked him if he was ok and picked his bike back up. He learned a valuable lesson that day. He is no different then the rest of us riders. Day two went flawlessly, but on day 3 I let my dad take the reigns of the hawk to feel the difference in torque and suspension. Two minutes later he's geting pulled over by the CHP I am not joking it really was only two minutes. The end result he was doing 83 in a 65 and could not get out of the ticket, although the officer was gracious enough to reduce it on the ticket to 73. The humor for me is my dad has never had a ticket and he drives normally like a grandma in a car, but on my superhawk he gets himself his first ticket.
P.S. What do you think of my sissy bar I made it myself? Also notice my on the fly needle adjustment.
08-12-2008, 09:55 PM
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Thats Awesome! Your sissy bar can double as a side car... I can't wait to do a long distance journey. What was your mileage like? I've been in those redwoods before, they are amazing. Good times!
08-12-2008, 10:00 PM
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I was getting between 37 to 41 mpg. Considering my pilot jets where still messed up from the dealership fubar I was satisfied with the numbers. Before though I was getting 130 before the light this time my best was 122 oh well.
08-13-2008, 01:37 PM
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Thanks guys. I will never let the ticket be forgotten. The fairing is a sharkskins race fairing I modified to accept the headlights I was using when I ran it naked last summer. I had to custom fab a headlight bracket and also had to wire in another circuit to handle the added load as well as to be able to shut one (the top) headlight off. The hawk actually makes one hell of a touring bike for a guy my size 5 10. I really was comfortable the whole ride. I am going to eventually get some cortec bags and increase the time I can comfortably be gone. Next year maybe the grand canyon who knows.
08-13-2008, 04:38 PM
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Hey, nice pics. I was in NorCal earlier, right after MotoGP. If you don't mind I'll post some pics of my own. That's not really threadjacking, is it? We can compare big tree pics though. 
Kinda like a throne...
08-14-2008, 07:49 PM
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Are those trees from the Avenue of the Giants? On my dads camera we got a few shots of the really big ones. What did you think of the area? To me it kinda had an erily quiet to it that was different then other forests ive been in. Although its probably me being weird or the endorphins from having such a fantastic ride kicking in.
Hawkrider, its not thread jacking its thread improving see we all sometimes want to improve the overall feel and length of our threads and we all like to help others do the same. LOL actually I don't really care what anyone says or does that is what makes the forum have character.
Hawkrider, its not thread jacking its thread improving see we all sometimes want to improve the overall feel and length of our threads and we all like to help others do the same. LOL actually I don't really care what anyone says or does that is what makes the forum have character.
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08-14-2008, 08:10 PM
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Yeah, that was the Avenue. We got on heading North and took it up about 50 miles to the second exit back onto the freeway. I passed the drive-thru tree but they wanted money to get in and we were in a hurry so we passed on it. (The group started out about 5 hours late due to a dead battery on a Buell that wouldn't take a charge.) We also saw the house made from a tree - looked more like a small camper, but hey, it way pretty cool anyway.
It was pretty surreal. There were three distinct parts of the forest that I noticed, where the trees were different sizes and the ground was just different - like mossy or something. Certain areas the redwoods blocked out all light so nothing else would grow. There was a part of the road where it was probably 50-75' between trees but you couldn't even see the sky! And holy crap, were those ******* TALL!
It was pretty surreal. There were three distinct parts of the forest that I noticed, where the trees were different sizes and the ground was just different - like mossy or something. Certain areas the redwoods blocked out all light so nothing else would grow. There was a part of the road where it was probably 50-75' between trees but you couldn't even see the sky! And holy crap, were those ******* TALL!
08-14-2008, 08:16 PM
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Okay, here's some more. The trip started out at SHOG, and a day trip to Wheels Through Time with Don and Dawn where the $400k Crocker did a few burnouts. There's a few Blue Ridge Pkwy pics. Sorry about the last one. The wife said, "Gimme a pose!", so I did!
08-14-2008, 08:20 PM
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We then trailered to St. Louis, where I did a track day at Gateway (no pics, all video), then on to MotoGP where the NoMar crew and I were vendors. After the races we trailered north to Fort Bragg, spent the night and took off north to Redwood Forest and further north to Crater Lake.
08-15-2008, 07:10 AM
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That pose is what I sometimes do after hitting really hard bumps and slamming into my tank...
I have been meaing to make a trip out to crater lake myself it just happens to be a bit far for the wife and I to be comfortable on the hawk the whole way.
I have been meaing to make a trip out to crater lake myself it just happens to be a bit far for the wife and I to be comfortable on the hawk the whole way.
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