The Wide World of Honda Pacific Coasts

A recent post on the Honda Pacific Coast PC800 Facebook group highlighted some of the awesome modifications people have done to their PCs over the years.  I figured I’d round up the photos and post them here.  If you have any photos you’d like me to feature of your PC800 or others that you’ve seen, please email me and I’ll add them to this post.

I have to start things out with the Cack, perhaps the most famous of all PC800 motorcycles.

The Cack changed quite a bit over the years with “Vermin” (Phillip Henderson) riding the bike all across North America.  You might notice the custom exhaust setup made to cook canned food while he rides and the shopping cart or milk crate pieces on the back.  Cack sure got a lot of customization.  But now the bike sleeps indefinitely at the Barber Motorsports Museum.

I don’t have many details on most of the rest of these PC800s.  These are photos that came from the Facebook group.  Notice this one has a different muffler.

This is a pretty neat paint scheme for a PC800.

I think this one is Canadian.

Pretty wild design!  It reminds me of the mid 1980s Goldwings.

This bike might be in France.

Wow what a paint scheme!  This one is from Russia.

That’s a lot of fancy air brush work.

A yellow bike with a purple haired rider.

Same bike, different rider.

This Honda Pacific Coast looks to be in Ukraine maybe.  I like the name on the back.

This is the only purple bike I’ve ever seen.

Neat snow cammo scheme.

This is a wild paint design.

 

Another cool European PC800.  This one might have a spare gas tank mounted above the air box where the faux gas tank normally is.  One or two bikes were custom modified by their owners to have that second gas tank.

Another view of the PC800 with the modified top box.

This bike also has a modified windshield that might have come from a BMW or an ST-1100 or ST-1300.

I think this one is somewhere in Europe.  Or maybe in Asia.  There are quite a few PCs popping up in Thailand and elsewhere these days.

I like the little scooter panniers that were added to the passenger seat.

This is a neat concept bike.  I wonder where this bike is at.

This one had a top box put on the passenger seat.

I dig the paint scheme on this bike.  And the exhaust has been modified.  I wonder if this PC800 actually has dual exhausts.

This bike is really, really pretty!

A nice deep blue PC800 with a custom saddle and a “Wong Wing” on the trunk.  It looks like this bike might also have the lower spoiler.  Both are quite rare.

Is this a Red White and Blue America-themed bike or France-themed bike?

Someone did a nice job respraying this bike.

Maybe this bike was sponsored once?

Interesting green color!

I like this light blue color.

Coasting Along the Pacific Coast

Just coasting along on the Pacific Coast riding my Honda PC800 Pacific Coast in pearl white!

After a wonderful weekend in British Columbia and passing over the ferry to Port Townsend, I followed the Pacific Coast Highway south toward Oregon.  Somewhere near Ruby Beach along the Olympic National Park’s bit of Washington’s coastline, I pulled over to grab a couple of photos.  Along the ways, I passed two red PC800s with Rifle windshields heading north.  I still haven’t figured out who those guys were but there’s a good chance I’ve met them before.

Down in Oregon, I took US 26 back toward Portland in the evening when I ran into a horrible 20 mile long traffic jam that took several hours to slowly navigate.  Other than being the end of a holiday weekend, there was no reason for bad traffic at 10pm.  Riding through Forest Grove, I had ash falling on me from the big fires ravaging the Columbia Gorge to the east.  It was a surreal welcome back to Oregon.

The Port Townsend-Coupeville Ferry with a Motorcycle

On my way back from beautiful British Columbia, I decided to take the Pacific Coast Highway US 101 south along the Washington Coast.  Since I was riding my Honda Pacific Coast motorcycle, I figured it was the right thing to do.  Plus this way I’d miss Seattle and Portland traffic.  I decided to take the ferry to Port Townsend and hop on the Pacific Coast Highway there.  It’s really neat that motorcycles get their own special location at the front of the ferry.  There were a couple other motorcycles with me on the boat.

Looking out the front of the boat with our motorcycles in the shadow.

Crossing the water.

Port Townsend in view!  After this ferry, I hopped on the Pacific Coast Highway and headed south.