A note from Rob…

We received this nice note from our good buddy Rob just a short while ago…

Steve, Joe, Ryan and everybody else there at CSC-

Here’s a pic from today’s ride, the first taste of twisties for my RX-3.

Feel free to use it, share it, whatever you like. Including this email.

I’ve got about 150 miles on the RX-3. It’s breaking in nicely!

Today was the canyon run. From Los Angeles to Malibu and up Las Flores/Rambla Pacifica over the mountains. Then onto Malibu Canyon/Las Virgenes to Mulholland, and up The Snake.

From there, down Kanan Dume for a half mile to Latigo Canyon and down to the coast.

We started with a breakfast burrito at the Malibu Country Store, which is right there at Las Flores. And then the rest of the ride was twisties!

I have to tell you, of all five bikes I have in my garage, this one is the most fun in the twisties. It’s far lighter than anything else I ride, and is an absolute joy in very tight, technical curves. It’s light enough to easily adjust your line while cornering, without bad results. And I find that as it breaks in, it develops a nice power band above 5000 rpm. In tight stuff, the Cyclone has more than enough power to give you a very spirited ride! I’m really impressed. I left my buddy (on an F800GT) in the dust.

Now, part of this experience comes from me getting off my 600 lb. GS and onto a Cyclone. But still, I also have two sport-touring bikes (a ’92 K75S, and an ’08 K1200GT) that are almost magical to ride in the canyons, but neither can compare to the handling of this lightweight adventure bike.

I’m really loving it.

And I’m riding more tomorrow.

I’ll see you folks soon,

Rob

That’s an awesome story and an awesome photo, Rob.  Thanks very much for sharing it with us.

For our riders who are not here in So Cal, the Rock Store is an iconic motorcycle stop high up in the mountains above Malibu.  We’ve done runs there on the little CSC-150 Mustangs (you can read about that here), and there’s always a crowd on the weekends.   I even wrote a piece on the place for Motorcycle Classics magazine (that story is here).

Rob, we’re amazed you managed to grab a photo of your beautiful white RX3 with nobody else around…the place is usually packed!