I got a friend of mine that lives in Paradise, CA. He is a somewhat active member over at Pashnit and he recently posted the following:
Sat I took a ride to Red Bluff to check out the new Kawawalskis at the fairly new dealership there. After I got done drooling on most everything they had in the store I took a ride up the legendary 36 to Platina. That is when it happened.........
I've read a few reports of the road work on 36 and rode through there while some of the construction was going on last fall. This was the first trip to Platina since they finished and I'm pretty sure I threw up a little in my mouth when I got to the "Roller Coaster" or should I say the remains. I stood on the pegs, pulled the wrinkles out of my pants, gave the bars a little wiggle, sat a little farther forward on the seat and prepared for the slides, wheelies and giggles I knew were coming. I came around the right-hander at the bottom of the hill in 4th prepared to snick it into 3rd and roll the throttle on and.......... It was gone, smoothed, straightened only the pics and the memories remained.
Not only did they remove all traces of it they removed it's little brother just after the railroad tracks at Red Bluff. Not to be content with that they destroyed another fun section up along the river bed near the horse place.......
I know there is still 90ish miles of giggles left from Platina to the coast but the ride to Platina is now the boring part. As short as the 3 sections were they were the heart and soul of that road. I will shed a tear every trip over there curse the Evil Overlords who decided this was a good idea till the day I die..................
Seems that at least the first 30 or so miles of Hwy 36 going west from Red Bluff got ***** by the evil ones at CalTrans.
