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mtgoat666
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Whats the optimim tire pressure for hitting pot holes at highway speed? I really dont have time to delay, so need to roll over the punches.
Anybody got gps waypoints for the largest holes? Would be great help for my high speed night driving.
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BajaMama
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Ha Ha - I have never seen the road near Catavina w/o potholes. The road was pretty good in October, just drive careful.
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Udo
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The is a huge difference between October of last year and this month after several large rain storms.
Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama  | | Ha Ha - I have never seen the road near Catavina w/o potholes. The road was pretty good in October, just drive careful. |
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Taco4x4
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Wifey and I just returned from a drive down Baja, San Diego to Cabo and return. Went south 19 April and the road for about 50 miles north/south of
Catavina was fairly bad and full of potholes. On the return trip, we passed through the same area mid-May and there was a road crew patching the
potholes. Doesn't look like the patches will last long but at least they were trying to make repairs. Without a doubt, this stretch of road is the
worst of the entire trip.
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Terry28
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I watched the road crew "repair" the pot holes...guys shoveling asphalt out of the back of a truck..just dumped the stuff into the holes...they relied
on passing vehicles to tamp it down....job security I think as the large trucks will pull it out pretty quickly.......
Mexico!! Where two can live as cheaply as one.....but it costs twice as much.....
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motoged
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Bad roads......
......are just bad roads
Don't believe everything you think....
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wessongroup
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I never expected a good road when going down to Baja ... just didn't ... and also anticipated live stock et al to be on the "road" too .... as it
just wasn't like the United States
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geoffff
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I was in La Paz 15 years ago after a big rainstorm following behind a truck with guys filling potholes with sand.
Seemed like a real short term solution.
-- Geoff
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BajaMama
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All I can speak to is what I know - I have only been driving to Santa Rosalia/Mulegé since 2003. Hwy 1 now vs. then is a fabulous improvement. There
are shoulders in some areas! Yay! However, in all the years I have made the drive, Catavina ALWAYS has potholes. I can only assume it is the
geology - washouts, sand, whatever, but no matter how often that area is repaired, it just wants potholes. So I drive really slow there.
In four days! I am beside myself with happy. Love fishing/paddle boarding in Baja!
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: Originally posted by Udo | The is a huge difference between October of last year and this month after several large rain storms.
| Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama | | Ha Ha - I have never seen the road near Catavina w/o potholes. The road was pretty good in October, just drive careful. |
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Just be careful. Some of them are huge:
Bob Durrell
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charliemanson
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Has anybody considered that it is a ploy by the people who feel that the holes are to get drivers to slow down for their families riding their bikes
and don't get their kids in the cart ran over?. Brilliant?!
Not to steal the thread though.
Never drive through Coco's however...REALLY bad. Don't do it! Please don't.
I need to go slay some fish and deplete the SOC supply
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elgatoloco
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My theory - no (few) constituents to impress with fancy billboards and new pavement leading up to election time. 
Roads are better then they ever were that is for sure. 
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Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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captkw
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Speaking of Catavina
back my first few trips(1977) the arroyo, had gals washing clothes in the middle of the road and I remember THAT CURVE before it was marked..took a
few life's..But still rough as day one....
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