{"id":11664,"date":"2021-01-17T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2021-01-17T06:01:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:01:43","slug":"dancing-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/17\/dancing-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another blog title dilemma.\u00a0 I went with the one you see above.\u00a0 I almost went with “Quoted by the NY Post<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

This is a blog about a dynamite So Cal loop ride, one that I covered for Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine a couple of years ago and one that was (as the saying goes) critically-acclaimed in the NY Post<\/em>.\u00a0 No kidding.\u00a0 I’ll get to that in a second or two.\u00a0 First, the ride:\u00a0 It’s circumnavigation of the San Gabriel Mountains, with a stop at the Devil’s Punchbowl State Park.\u00a0 \u00a0The Punchbowl was burned out during one of the recent California wildfires, but it will be back.\u00a0 Here’s the route:<\/p>\n

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This ride includes a stretch along the northern side of the San Gabriels, a hop over the San Andreas Fault, Mt. Emma Road to cut around the northwest corner, the magnificent Angeles Crest Highway, and more.\u00a0 I like to start south of the San Gabriels and head up through Cajon Pass on I-15, grab the 138, and then take a quick left on Lone Pine Road.\u00a0 That’s a nice long climb up into the San Gabriels, it’s desolate, and it’s scenic.<\/p>\n

I wrote up this ride for Motorcycle Classics<\/em>, and suprisingly, the NY Post<\/em> newspaper had nice things to say about it.\u00a0 They prepped an article critiquing other motorcycle mag articles, but they liked my piece.\u00a0 Here’s what they had to say:<\/p>\n

Funny how it\u2019s Motorcycle Classics, a magazine focused more on the bike than the ride, that really revved our two-wheeled wanderlust.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Berk takes us on a ride through a passage in California\u2019s San Gabriel Mountains called \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Punchbowl.\u201d 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nirvana-like northern segment through the San Gabriels\u2019 scenic twisties is \u2026 where the fun begins,\u201d Berk advises. Later he describes a \u201cragged and rugged canyon\u201d created by \u201ca misbehaving San Andreas fault.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Having indulged in the \u201ccrisp pine-scented mountain air\u201d 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. \u201cYou can thank me later,\u201d he writes.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can read the NY Post<\/em> article here<\/a>\u00a0(you might want to see what they said about a couple of the other moto mags) and the Motorcycle Classics<\/em> Devil’s Punchbowl story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You probably already know this, but both the guys who write the ExNotes blog (yours truly and Joe Gresh) are well published.\u00a0 You can read some of Gresh’s work here<\/a>, and some of mine here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another blog title dilemma.\u00a0 I went with the one you see above.\u00a0 I almost went with “Quoted by the NY Post.” This is a blog about a dynamite So Cal loop ride, one that I covered for Motorcycle Classics magazine a couple of years ago and one that was (as the saying goes) critically-acclaimed in … Continue reading “Dancing with the Devil”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,89],"tags":[155,1769,577],"class_list":["post-11664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-motorcycle-classics-magazine","tag-rider-magazine","tag-roadrunner-travel-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20180113_1051-900-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}