100 miles then tacos and beer. I refuse to punish the muscles more than the liver.
We are leaving the truck and trailer at Santa Veronica. Riding to El Coyote on Wednesday via compadre trail to sawmill thru Jamua and down the goat
trail to Valle t. and then to Mikes and finally Coyote.
Meeting Bajatrailrider and Mike ( the guy in the red Toyota on the pole line trip) at El coyote and they are going to show us some trails for a day or
2. From Larry's place in San Vicente we will hit Erindira, Santo Tomas, Urapan , Ojos Negros and back to Santa Veronica on Saturday or Sunday.
100 miles then tacos and beer. I refuse to punish the muscles more than the liver.
We are leaving the truck and trailer at Santa Veronica. Riding to El Coyote on Wednesday via compadre trail to sawmill thru Jamua and down the goat
trail to Valle t. and then to Mikes and finally Coyote.
Meeting Bajatrailrider and Mike ( the guy in the red Toyota on the pole line trip) at El coyote and they are going to show us some trails for a day or
2. From Larry's place in San Vicente we will hit Erindira, Santo Tomas, Urapan , Ojos Negros and back to Santa Veronica on Saturday or Sunday.
Sounds like a fun ride, wish I was going with you!
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
I just don't see how they saw anything. I love to ride fast as much as the next person but not through new places. Six days just means you covered the
miles. Not sure what it has to do with Baja.
I just don't see how they saw anything. I love to ride fast as much as the next person but not through new places. Six days just means you covered the
miles. Not sure what it has to do with Baja.
Hamster wheel stuff.
To each their own.
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I feel the same way. I am definitely a scenery hound and stop a lot. Hard to drag a camera out when on the bike but I try.
The flip side is that when I go at my own speed I have to carry camp gear as there is no way that I will make it to 'civilization' by sundown. Add to
that my portable ham radio station and I'm quite the sight.
I get up and hit the road about when the morning chill is off and quit early when I can find a shady spot by some water with a tall bush or Cardon for
my antenna wire. Stir up some grub, make camp and settle in for some serious gawking at the stars and crash like a dead thing.
I understand well that those riders only have a short vacation and understandably wish to cram as much as possible into it. But Baja isn't going
anywhere and, contrary to much croakings, hasn't changed that much in the years I've been poking about.
If I quit riding too fast I may live to ride with you too. I got all fired up riding with friends last week and hit a rock so hard that I cut a tube
even with lots of air in the tire. The the clown show started.
We were laughing and goofing off and cut the new tube. Then the patch kit glue was old. Got another 30 miles before the patch worked loose. Rode on
the flat for ten miles while sitting way back on the seat until I got to the llantera in Purisma and got things under control. Bunch of old fools
having fun anyway.
(I wanted to say that I p i n c h e d the inner tube but the obscenity filter thinks that is a bad word! Weird science)
Hey.....give the kids a break....some like to go fast as they have that racer gene thing going on....some of us older riders enjoy more of a "look and
see" pace.
I have tended to carry a small down bag& tent on my solo trips that unfold at a pleasant pace for the times I may not make it to a town with a
room for rent. At other time I plan to spend a night or two out back and am prepared w/ water and cans of tuna....
When I see these rip to the tip type videos, I am focussed on the terrain more than the group culture.
These videos, it seems, tend to be shot/produced by soucal racer types....let them do it their way, and us older farts do it our way....really no
right or wrong here.
As for your tube fiasco. always carry a 21" and lots of glue and patches....using the stuff you bought when you picked up your last Grateful Dead LP
is not great planning
Also, by now you should be able to fix a flat in the dark when it's raining....
I do not ride bikes, though watching this and other similar videos make me wish had learned. Now I think that I have seen too many Baja sunsets to be
learning. There are common traits in many of these group riding videos that show Baja in such a positive light; the camaraderie and appreciation of
the journey come to mind.
4x4s simply cannot give you the same perspective - the openness of the landscape, the ease to speed along (at your favorite pace), and just the group
dynamics for the bikes seems to be so well-suited to Baja.
Motoged - I'll be checking your videos later today.
great vid forsure i like the drunk on takillya in an old ghost town and
geds vids are grt too
So understand dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up and make your stand and realize that your living in the golden years
Yeah, cool video. I wasn't able to watch it all, but I just hope they mentioned viewers and most likely followers tread lightly and stay on trails.
Hard not to notice the unfortunate increase of motorcycle and offroad groups not abiding...
In that pre-Google Earth and social media epoch, The Code was adhered to. It was based on a simple verity: if a locale had been transformational for
you, and you had put the hard yards in to get there and to learn it, to know it, why in god�s name would you broadcast the news, thus ruining the
future experience not only for yourself, but for future adventurers?
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The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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