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I am planning the ride for Pinnacles and to cut to the chase, I can’t wait until this one! I am taking my TT250 (which is actually a pretty decent touring platform, as I found out on the TT250 Baja ride we did last year).  If you want to ride with us, your TT250 or RX3 will do  just fine, and we’ll be running a blog on how to set up your TT250 for longer rides in the near future.

The run from Azusa to Pinnacles will be about 330 miles, and I think it’s going to be just grand. We’ll take an easy run on the 210 north to the Angeles Crest Highway and ride those glorious twisties into the Angeles National Forest. From there it’s surface streets to Lake Elizabeth Road and on to Lake Hughes (a grand ride), and it’s the 138 into more twisties to the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge! Wow, lots of twisties! We’ll take 166 to 33 through the oil fields to Maricopa on up to Coalinga (the name is derived from Coaling Station A, when the old steam engines used to pick up coal there), then it’s on to glorious Highways 198 and 25 all the way to Pinnacles National Park. Who knows…we may even see a California condor or two on the way up (Pinnacles is where they are released into the wild).

I haven’t decided on the return route. We may take to the same way back, or we may divert over to the coast and come down the coast highway. If you have ideas, I’d sure like to hear them. In the meantime, if you want to ride another one of our great CSC rides, let me know! This will be a good one.

You know, we’ve done a number of these CSC rides…our Saturday Dual Sports and Donuts rides, our annual 8-day Baja ride, a TT250 Baja ride, the Destinations Tour, and several more. I love the rides and the scenery, but the best part for me is getting to know the people who participate. I’ve made a lot of good friends on these rides, and I can’t wait to get my knees in the breeze on this next one. Pinnacles, folks! It’s going to be grand!

I just posted our 2 June Nethercutt Museum ride on the CSC Meetup page, and if you would like to go, please sign up here.   We’re limited to 15 participants on this guided tour, so my advice would be to sign up early.   This is going to be a good one, folks.   You’ll want to be at the CSC plant no later than 8:30 a.m. on June 2, and you’ll probably want to bring a camera.  I’m really looking forward to this visit!

Here’s a cool video from our last Dual Sports and Donuts Meetup.com ride, while I was following Barb and Tom riding up Glendora Mountain Road!

Wow, June is just around the corner, and we have two great CSC rides we’re planning!

The first is our usual 1st-Saturday-of-the-month ride, except there’s nothing “usual” about this one. We’ll be riding from CSC’s worldwide headquarters to the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, California. It’s one of the world’s premier vintage car collections. We’ll be posting more information in the very near future here on the CSC blog and on our Meetup.com page, so keep an eye on both sites!

Ride with us to the Nethercutt Museum on 2 June 2018!

The next is one I’ve talked about before, and that’s a run up to Pinnacles National Park on California’s amazing Highways 198 and 25, two of the greatest motorcycle roads on the planet. This will be a 3-day ride from June 15th through the 17th (that’s a Friday through a Sunday), and we’re setting it up so we’ll run almost entirely on surface streets. I’m planning on taking my TT250 on this ride (along with my Nikon and my Go Pro). It’s going to be fabulous. This one is a CSC motorcycles only ride, and if you are planning to ride with us, please let me know as soon as possible by replying to me at jberk@CSCMotorcycles.com.

Fabulous riding through central California! Ride with us 15-17 June on your CSC motorcycle!

I love that corridor through central California…so much so that I did a piece on it in Motorcycle Classics magazine (you can read the story here).

Good times, folks. It’s what comes automatically when you ride one of our motorcycles!

We sure had a great time on our Saturday ride.   Our good buddies Joel and Mark caught some great video of the new San Gabriel motorcycles, and we thought we would share it with you here…