Hey, how about this…none other than the NY Post weighed in with an article about, well, motorcycle travel articles, and it sure was interesting. The bottom line? The folks at the NY Post read three articles about moto travel, they panned two, and they liked the third one. You might be thinking: So what? Well, the “so what” is that the one they liked was my article. It was an article about the ride we took to the Devil’s Punchbowl on one of our monthly Dual Sports and Donuts rides. I wrote a Destinations piece about that ride for Motorcycle Classics magazine, and you can read it here.
Check out this quote from the Post’s article…
Funny how it’s Motorcycle Classics, a magazine focused more on the bike than the ride, that really revved our two-wheeled wanderlust.
Joe Berk takes us on a ride through a passage in California’s San Gabriel Mountains called “The Devil’s Punchbowl.” The piece opens with a picture of a San Andreas Fault sign. Berk only gets one page to draw us in, but he has us ready to put our keys in the ignition.
“The Nirvana-like northern segment through the San Gabriels’ scenic twisties is … where the fun begins,” Berk advises. Later he describes a “ragged and rugged canyon” created by “a misbehaving San Andreas fault.”
Having indulged in the “crisp pine-scented mountain air” and taking in views of the Mojave Desert to his right and the San Gabriel summits to his left, Berk stops to recommend the French toast at the Grizzly Cafe. “You can thank me later,” he writes.
We had a great time on that ride, and we have another one coming up this Saturday to the Nethercutt Museum. We’re at capacity on that ride, but keep an eye on our Meetup.com page; we do rides like this every month.
We’ve got another awesome trip coming up in June, and that’s our Pinnacles tour. It’s a three-day California backroads extravaganza, and you can read a little bit about the roads we’ll be riding in this Motorcycle Classics piece. You’ll need to be mounted on a CSC motorcycle to ride Pinnacles with us, and a lot of you reading this blog already are. But if you’re not already riding one of the best bikes on the planet, we have a couple of apps for that: Our RX3 page and our TT250 page. Both of these bikes have been selling briskly, and if you want the ideal motorcycle for a ride like this (and the ideal trip to break it in on), there’s no time like the present to pull the trigger.
SG250 San Gabriel Cafe Racer
TT250 Enduro
RX4 450cc Adventure