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JZ
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Quote: Originally posted by KylesBahiadrean  | Hahahaha all
The stories seem so familiar.. we were on the gravel bar the entire time and we decided that across would be a shortcut..WRONG... unknown amount of
hours of driving one truck back to BDLA , getting another truck , dropping our ladies off at the house in Bahia..getting some tools and help
together...long story short my buddies dad knew the guys working on the road they helped, they also had a tractor but wanted to try the trucks
first... after we got the truck out , they took us back to the ranch to wash off, drink some coffee and beer .. they showed us their new horses and we
paid the men and took off back to Bahia with the sun going down...
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I gotta go see this place now. Take the KTMs and fly across it.
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | | Quote: Originally posted by KylesBahiadrean | Hahahaha all
The stories seem so familiar.. we were on the gravel bar the entire time and we decided that across would be a shortcut..WRONG... unknown amount of
hours of driving one truck back to BDLA , getting another truck , dropping our ladies off at the house in Bahia..getting some tools and help
together...long story short my buddies dad knew the guys working on the road they helped, they also had a tractor but wanted to try the trucks
first... after we got the truck out , they took us back to the ranch to wash off, drink some coffee and beer .. they showed us their new horses and we
paid the men and took off back to Bahia with the sun going down...
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I gotta go see this place now. Take the KTMs and fly across it.
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Our mistake was hitting that pit in our trucks, it’s a cool place if you hug the mountain to the right and then stay on the gravel bar...and yeah on
a bike that pit shouldn’t be bad , the first
couple of inches of mud are hard..
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It took 5 guys a few hours to pry a 525 KTM out of that snot....
Don't believe everything you think....
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Man I was hoping to let him go and try.. I said it wouldn’t be that bad, but I did not say he wouldn’t get stuck... good know the dirt bikes are
getting stuck as well
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It takes a 4 wheeler to get really stuck, 2 wheelers are cautious.
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| Quote: Originally posted by KylesBahiadrean |
Man I was hoping to let him go and try.. I said it wouldn’t be that bad, but I did not say he wouldn’t get stuck... good know the dirt bikes are
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Baja clay and sandflats are wicked mediums. I have had similar experiences in alkali "ponds" (semi-dry with the crust) here in B.C.
On one Baja ride , we were north of San Juanico and a bit north of La Ballena, on the coast heading south. There was a river opening into the
ocean....Lizard Lady told us to cross at the mouth....but my buddies went upstream less than 100 meters....one guy's 'Berg sunk into quicksand about
8 inches above rims....took 3 of us 45 minutes to extract it.
Fishermen in El Rosario west of town warned us about crossing the wet areas a bit inland from the shore....saying locals had lost trucks in the
quicksand there.
There are tidal flats south of Bahia Asuncion that are gooey and greasy after rains. After a few hard lessons, I could read the sand better and
avoided them 80% of the time.....the other 20% gave me a chance to use my toolkit to slowly gouge the back wheel free from swingarm to head back
to house to then spend way too much time hosing and scraping the bike clean...
I would pay good money to watch The Jizz fly across that snot 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Our bikes and riders are a good 100+ pounds lighter than your fat @sses.
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On my last trip to La Paz, I was exploring near the Maranatha campground looking for a new place to run my dog. I found a salt/silt flat that did not
have a 'crust' to break through, but the inch of goo on top of the hard pan was the slickest stuff I have ever encountered!
I was driving an Isuzu Trooper with decent all terrain tires spinning all four wheels on flat ground. I wasn't sinking, but I had to get out and drop
the air way down just to get a hundred yards back to the dry stuff!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Good man... air down for the win!
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