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ehall
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Solo bike ride ends in rescue
The rider from NYC is lucky Antonio form Desert Hawks is such a great guy. Excellent read. Gets good after the crash.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1050562
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ehall
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I carry an Inreach because I do alot of solo trips. Hope to never need it but glad to see it actually works.
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rts551
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Interesting. ANtonio goes out to the desert to get the guy. Stabilizes is leg. Then makes the round trip to the border. $495 and the guy thinks
that is a little too much.
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tripledigitken
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That's quite a read.
Baja Cactus's Antonio going WAY above the call of duty!!!!!
Delorme's In Reach, unbelievable performance in alerting help for this injured rider.
Farm worker demonstrators chasing his ambulance with machetes.    
(note to self....get "In Reach" and keep donating to Desert Hawks!)
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ehall
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Quote: Originally posted by rts551  | | Interesting. ANtonio goes out to the desert to get the guy. Stabilizes is leg. Then makes the round trip to the border. $495 and the guy thinks
that is a little too much. |
Ya, I thought that comment was way out of line
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LancairDriver
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What a lucky dude! Laying out in the desert immobile, fully expecting rescuers to come along and wondering what is taking them so long. Thanks to
DeLorme, and special thanks to Antonio. Not too long ago the last thing he would have seen was buzzards circling above and people wondering what
became of him. How technology and time have changed things.
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Ken Cooke
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Thanks Ed!
very good reading! 
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by ehall | | Quote: Originally posted by rts551 | | Interesting. ANtonio goes out to the desert to get the guy. Stabilizes is leg. Then makes the round trip to the border. $495 and the guy thinks
that is a little too much. |
Ya, I thought that comment was way out of line |
Dude was a green horn. He should not have been riding solo. And he is an a$s. He got a super cheap rescue and complains about it! As$wipe!
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Whale-ista
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Actually, he seems appreciative and supportive of Desert Hawks. He posted this tonight:
"I donated a couple hundred bucks to Desert Hawks, and they sent this email. You guys might find it interesting (Antonio and his partner, Andy, are
great people):
Thank you so much for your donation. It could not have come in a better timing..."
Then he encourages others to donate.
Let's hope Antonio gets more of the equipment he needs (and doesn't need to use it too often).
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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MICK
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It would have been 10000.00 in the states! Crazy to ride alone in Baja. I just couldn't do it
Getting there is ALL the fun!
Ok being here is fun to
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rts551
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wonder if the $200 was above the $500. or did he just give 200...remember what he did to the guy who took him around the roadblocks.
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rts551
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And Antonio took his bike North for him!
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BajaBean
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I read the post from the guy and I did not get that he was complaining about the ambulance service. Here is what he wrote in his post.
The EMT driver called 911 for a US ambulance to pick me up. He happens to manage the best hotel in El Rosario Baja Cactus and he manages the Pemex
which is next door. AND he is the fire chief which is also volunteer like the EMT squad. He said he would store my bike at the hotel until I could
make arrangements for it... what a nice guy. I dont know how he manages all this stuff seeing as how he wasted half a day transporting me to the
border. Being that his EMT service is non profit they ask patients to cover all costs gas and supplies so I had to pay him 500 US. That was like 5
for the splint 2 for the gauze and 493 for gas to the border and back about 400 miles. I knew I was paying a little extra but thought it was fair.
May have been some other bonehead that b-tched about the cost.
I do however question his judgement about going solo at his age which I estimate to be upper 40's and also being by his own admission a "little guy"
and riding such a tall bike.
[Edited on 4-27-2015 by BajaBean]
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motoged
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| Quote: Originally posted by BajaBean | .....
I do however question his judgement about going solo at his age which I estimate to be upper 40's....
[Edited on 4-27-2015 by BajaBean] |
BB,
I am 64 and ride solo in Baja most of the times when I am down there....on a tall bike....
The only time I have been injured is when riding with another....trying to follow a Nomad in silt beds ( but he is a desert racer so goes as fast as
he thinks he does  )....likely the same conditions (silt) that busted this
guy up.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=666961
Don't believe everything you think....
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: Originally posted by motoged | | Quote: Originally posted by BajaBean | .....
I do however question his judgement about going solo at his age which I estimate to be upper 40's....
[Edited on 4-27-2015 by BajaBean] |
BB,
I am 64 and ride solo in Baja most of the times when I am down there....on a tall bike....
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and your judgment is in question too..........
(by the way I need to ask you about campgrounds in AK/BC for my summer MC ride to Hyder)
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motoged
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TDK,
I KNEW someone would throw that back at me.... 
Don't know anything about Alaska camping, but parts of BC ....I could offer questionable advice to help out a Nomad rider...
Don't believe everything you think....
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tripledigitken
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Thanks I'll u2u u.
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dtbushpilot
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| Quote: Originally posted by motoged | | Quote: Originally posted by BajaBean | .....
I do however question his judgement about going solo at his age which I estimate to be upper 40's....
[Edited on 4-27-2015 by BajaBean] |
BB,
I am 64 and ride solo in Baja most of the times when I am down there....on a tall bike....
The only time I have been injured is when riding with another....trying to follow a Nomad in silt beds ( but he is a desert racer so goes as fast as
he thinks he does )....likely the same conditions (silt) that busted this
guy up.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=666961 |
Only an idiot or someone with no friends would ride alone in Baja 
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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BajaBean
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I am 70 and I ride solo too, and on a tall bike (I am 6'1" with almost 3 ft of inseam) but not off into the dirt somewhere I have never been.
motoged probably knows where he is going and how to get home.
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motoged
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You two gentlemen are clearly of above intelligence.....I am an idiot who has no friends who knows how to get home....
But riding alone....I can stop whenever I want, don't have to speed to keep up with others, can meander at will, don't have to get uptight because my
ride buddies are slower (or other manifestations of PIA syndrome), and I can call it a day at my leisure.
But, hey.....wanna see a pic of my broken fibula?
Some ride partners have to stop every 20 minutes to check in with the better half.... 
Don't believe everything you think....
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