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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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...And How Fast Do You Drive Mex 1?
...south of San Quintín?
...near cataviña?
...north and south of Guerrero Negro?
...Between Mulegé and Loreto?
...South of Ciudad Constitucion?
Seems like most folks I ask drive a lot faster than I do.
[Edited on 6-12-2012 by DavidE]
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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DENNIS
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60 when the road is clear.
80 when there's bicycle riders on the road.
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Lauriboats
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Between 60 and 70 much slower than most of our friends.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Terry28
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Not so fast that I spill my pacifico!!!
Mexico!! Where two can live as cheaply as one.....but it costs twice as much.....
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edm1
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Speed limit in kph, minus 10 at curvas peligrosa and when beside 18 wheelers.
No desire to hurry.
[Edited on 6-12-2012 by edm1]
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Ateo
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80 kph. Or mph? Can't remember.
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paranewbi
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Accelerate up till my wife white knuckles the dash! Then drop it back a click or two.
Never have touched the gas pedal down hell grade going into SR.
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durrelllrobert
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15 hrs non-stop from Loreto to Punta Banda pulling a 24 foot boat.
Bob Durrell
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thebajarunner
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I drive as fast as the road will handle it.
In towns, I drive about 25 mph, and keep my radar detector on
(I seriously doubt if the radars they use are even working, just have some phony number locked into the screen- oh well)
And, in congested areas like San Quintin I try to keep it down when there are pedestrian, because they tend to do dumb things.
But, I seems to pass an incredible number of vehicles, and some days I never do get passed- guess that is a more honest answer.
But I do not take chances- NEVER!!
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thebajarunner
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First year the highway was paved we set our record
| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
15 hrs non-stop from Loreto to Punta Banda pulling a 24 foot boat. |
After a pre-run for the 1000, it was either 1973 or 74- first year the road was pretty much finished- some long graded stretches, but still fast.
We left Los Arcos breakfast table in La Paz at 9:00 a.m.
Home in Modesto (475 miles north of the border) at 8:00 a.m the next morning. 24 hours on the nose (Time zone adjusted)
That was before the 55 mph days in the US and also not much traffic on the Carreterra.
Drove lots of stretches at 100 mph, 85-90 all the way up through California- LA in the wee morning hours helped.
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Barry A.
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45 to 60 outside of towns, rain or shine, depending on the area and traffic.
Barry
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Mula
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In the '70's - LA to MZT 20 - 24 hours straight through.
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comitan
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Toooo fast, but I keep saying I'm going to slow down...
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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sancho
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In the 80's, AAA had a rather simple book, distances,
etc. in Baja, they now have something similiar full
of ads. They had time between towns, I would be
right on their times, 45 mi covered in an hour,
so mph maybe a little faster. I grew up driving
VW vans, so my times are way slower than the
current drivers
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SFandH
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I like to keep it under 2000..........RPMs.
Throughout the day I average 45 MPH, including pit stops.
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woody with a view
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as fast as i need to go to get where i'm aiming at, in one piece, and with the most fuel left in the tank......
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oxxo
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We average 55mph from border to CSL. So that means about 25 mph through towns and 70mph on open highway and 55 mph in the hills.
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Udo
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I'm with oxxo on this one.
But on the off-roads, with lowered air pressure, it's about 60 MPH...at least according to my GPS.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
It's totally schedule dependent... it can be quite variable.
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If you have schedules in Baja, you're in the wrong place. 
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
I like to keep it under 2000..........RPMs.
Throughout the day I average 45 MPH, including pit stops. |
It's the pit stops that will ruin it. Although the occasional stop is really very good to prevent fatigue, just seems to me that those among us who
enjoy mucho cervezas as they drive are prone to make mucho stops.
In my experience, the road provides a certain amount of unavoidable limits on the average speed.
Obviously, the mountains, with their steep grades and sharp curves do much to slow the overall progress. But, so many of the urban areas contribute to
that as well.
With a few exceptions, in my experience, one cannot really speed until they are South of El Rosario. Even then, the curves, the grades, the trucks and
the buses moderate ones progress.
That said, there are certainly many miles of very flat and straight highway where it just seems absolutely crazy to be observing the posted speed
limit. Geez. The ruta vino road North of Ensenada has posted limits as high as 110 kph. So just what justifies a posted speed limit of 60kph on
straight flat roads out in the middle of nowhere?
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