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2025
PASHNIT TOURS

Planning for Season 22...

About
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Twenty-two years ago,

I had no intention of building a motorcycle tour business.

Pashnit Motorcycle Tours wasn't even my idea.

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 The idea came from an article published in Cycle World Magazine, written by then Editor-in-Chief David Edwards. He wrote his monthly column about Yours Truly and a website I started building in 1999 about California Motorcycle Roads, known as (pronounced passionate) Pashnit.com. The article about Pashnit.com was published in the November 2003 issue of Cycle World Magazine.

 

My goal was to ride every twisty motorcycle road in the state of California while photographing and writing about each road. The California Motorcycle Roads site became an obsessive project. Within a few years, I wrote several hundred articles about California Roads and took tens of thousands of photographs while exploring the state, posting the text and photos to www.Pashnit.com. The site soon spanned over 240,000 files, covering nearly 350 California roads and the motorcycle community began to take notice of my pet project.

 

My spare time hobby working on Pashnit.com gained attention from fellow riders, then newspaper, radio interviews, and magazines soon followed. But it was the call I received from the largest motorcycle magazine in the nation that was the most exciting. David Edwards dedicated his monthly column (Nov '03) in Cycle World about my obsessive hobby. His last question was what does the future hold for Pashnit? I flippantly answered. My wife thinks I should start a tour company. He published that line in the Cycle World article. And the rest is our shared history.

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More about the Tour Guide >

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Read the Cycle World article that started it all >

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Want to hear a story?
Ask me about using saw blades as throwing stars on a tour.

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OUR STORY

It wasn't my idea.

HOW TO BUILD A COMMUNITY

Pashnit Motorcycle Tours was launched in 2004.

The year 2025 will be our 22nd year providing organized motorcycle tours, a huge milestone for any small business, and we've since led nearly 3 million (combined) miles of motorcycle tours in California, Oregon & Nevada. Over the last two decades, our repeat rate exceeds 95%, and our tour participants become family and even family to one another. Tours are often all familiar faces. Riders often return to the places we've visited with their spouses and families. Riders who meet on tours often ride together apart from our organized tours. Pashnit Tours claims at least one marriage of two riders who met on these tours and got married after they rode together for several tours. After 20 plus years of providing motorcycle tours, our tour season begins selling out as early as August for the coming year and moves to a waiting list of riders hoping someone will cancel once our tours reach capacity. We also send out group emails in early spring listing all the participants that have signed up for respective tours, so riders can meet up with each other on another tour.

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2025
TOUR CALENDAR

As odd as it may sound, our riders often pick tours solely based on date.
Does it really matter where you go? Surprisingly, not really. The roads are always super twisty, the food and lodging is great, and the camaraderie of being together with one another is the true magic of a motorcycle tour. Our repeat rate is so high, I constantly have to create new tours.

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In 2025, we will be conducting our 250th organized motorcycle tour.

 

New tours are most popular & sell out quickly. All our tours generally sell out by the end of January. Our tours run February- November, find a date that matches your schedule and meet up with us Friday morning. We offer multi-tour package discounts and even Season Passes for those that want to ride every single tour. Tour dates are set over a year in advance if you can plan that far ahead.

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​2025 Tour Dates

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Feb 14, 2025 - EL DORADO - New!
Mar 07, 2025 - DEATH VALLEY
Mar 21, 2025 - SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS
Apr 04, 2025 - PARKFIELD
Apr 18, 2025 - TWISTED SISTERS - New!
May 02, 2025 - SHASTA COAST - New!
May 23, 2025 - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
June 06, 2025 - SIERRA NEVADA
July 11, 2025 - COAST RANGE
Aug 01, 2025 - SEQUOIA
Aug 15, 2025 - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (250th Tour)
Aug 29, 2025 - OREGON COAST - New!
Sept 12, 2025 - SOUTHERN SIERRA

Sept 19, 2025 - TRINITY ALPS - New!

Oct 03, 2025 - SIERRA CREST - New!
Oct 17, 2025 - CENTRAL COAST
Nov 07, 2025 - MARIN

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Trinity Alps

OUR 2025 TOURS

We're planning 17 tours in 2025, including six brand-new tours from the 2024 ride season. All tours generally sell out by the end of January (and then move to a waiting list of riders hoping someone will cancel), but more often as soon as they are announced in late fall. Bulk discounts are available and most alumni sign up for 3-4 tours per season. We also offer a Season Pass where riders will sign up to go on every tour we offer. Check with us ahead of time to see if we have room, we'd love to ride with you, get to know you and welcome you to the Pashnit Family.

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Top 10 Reasons to ride on a Pashnit Tour >

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YOUR QUESTIONS

Read Touring FAQs

 

Admit it. You have many questions.

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This site was not only designed to offer pretty pictures and my rather verbose tour descriptions. It's here to address as many of your questions as possible. After 20-plus years of running motorcycle tours across multiple states, hopefully we've answered every possible question. If you're on the fence contemplating if an organized tour is for you, spend some time here. Ask questions. Small group tours are not for everyone, but if you made it this far down the page, it's probably exactly what you've been looking for.

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Read how Tom Hohl, based in Steamboat, Colorado discovered this site much like you,

and has made our motorcycle tours an integral part of his ride life for the last decade.

 

The contents of this site are for you, wondering if this guided tour thing is all it's cracked up to be.

Watch our tour videos, read the FAQs, read about our California Motorcycle Roads.

Check out nearly 60,000 tour photos in our on-line Photo Albums taken over the last 21 years.

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The majority of our tour participants are local riders on local roads.
Think about that.

Ask yourself: How is that even possible?
Why do people do this?

Over and over.

 

We tried to answer that with the Top 10 Reasons page. 

Contact us if you've got a question we have not answered.

And I so look forward to welcoming you to my family.

-Tim

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