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  1. Not much, GF. This one might do as it's near there...from my 'walks in the past' blog. A night in Cadeje, Baja Back in '70 or '71 I was prerunning the Baja 1000 race with my co driver in his Dune buggy. We had completed 600 miles of dirt road by the time we got to Cadeje. We kind of stumbled onto it as evening approached. We thought something to drink was in order, at least. So we took the short off shoot road into town. Baja racing was new to Baja in those days and Cadeje had seen even less of it since they were so far south. The folks opened up the town for us. Well, that meant the major domo's house. I think they were already haveing a party, so they envited us in. They fed us and we were celebrities of a sort. We didn't speak much Spanish, but managed to have a good time with everyone. They invited us to spend the night on their patio, of course, we accepted. The evening wore on and many beers were consumed....... Back some 15 or more years earlier there was a movie called 'Viva Zapata', where Marlon Brando was a Campesino who triumphed over the Federales. He got an academy award, BTW. Later on that evening we were asked what we had named our race car. I wanted to be friendly so I picked a name that had a Mexican vib, and said that we named it Viva Zapata. Nert!!!! The room went silent and cold all at once. Seems as though, to our new friends, Zapata was a bandit villain. My car's name went over like a fart in church. We did spend the night, but we lost all the respect from the earlier part of the night. Here a present day website about Cadeje. Opposite of Mulege on the Pacific coast. http://www.bajaexpo.com/cadeje.htm Another time, around '85, a friend and I stopped there at a very meager Cafe to get something to eat. It was San Juanico this time. We been making a 10 day run around Baja in my Baja bug. We were in our mid 40s. The lady only had eggs and tortillas and beans. Sure that was fine...we'd have eaten anything. While we were sitting there a socker game with about five guys was beginning outside in a field. These kids needed more players so they came over and invited us to join them. We didn't play, but I always treasured being asked. I had visions of going thru there this trip, but that wasn't possible.
  2. Well we were trying to be safe but day four got a couple of us....as this post explains. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26605872&postcount=41
  3. Who said anything about safe? Alive yes, but safe is a stretch.
  4. We all 4 got back from Baja, bikes and all. Everything happened that makes these rides an adventure. I'm putting the story on the ADVrider.com site. I met Haywood for the first time at Coyote Cals last Friday. That was cool. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1057859
  5. Departure day has arrived. The three riders from LA have departed...be here in Oceanside by 9am. We are ahead of schedule. ...a bit of a startup post from yesterday (Fri). Four of us will tackle Baja for a long week starting Saturday morning, April 4th. The perp are me, Mike D, and the Goldston twins, Don and Dan from Co and SC . The 2 Ds flew into LA at noon today, and Mike retrieved them in his lifted F150. Nice ride. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/unMoBoi18zjrvSF6Bk5zXNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink Four of us will tackle Baja for a long week starting Saturday morning, April 4th. The perps are me, Mike D, and the Goldstons. The plan was/is that they would take Friday afternoon and pack their clothes and prepare the bikes with GPS and such at Mike's place north of LA a bit. They will get an early start tomorrow and ride down to pick me up on the way to Mexico where we will cross at Tecate. I got a Cell phone picture from them up on top of Mt Wilson off the Angeles Crest Hwy on a test ride at about 3pm this afternoon. I guess a test ride is part of ride prep....and there's no nicer ride than the ACH which is about 10 miles from Mike's house. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cvixs0Vlezt1UmLNoc2TxdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink Later around 6:30pm. I'm told that the work on packing the bike is coming along swimmingly. ........the bikes ...... https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3NygNRN9HTxpfBIEGZL4FNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink Someone has knocked one of the bikes over and then somehow both Mike and Don ended up under the bikes or summat like that. Luckily Dan was there to get them both up. The bikes and riders both survived, and except for new limps the ride with resume Saturday morning on schedule. Oh,,,and about a Spot Tracker, Don is carrying one and it shows that they have left Los Angeles. Here's the link if anyone wants to follow along. I'm not carrying a 'puter so there won't be much of a report till we get back. > Seems as though Don has a 'Spot' tracker, and will try to keep it active when we are traveling. Should be interesting, to see if we can work it. LOL Don says, >The link for the SPOT tracker is:https://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=1mq0zR6mzvxhZMFrbvLa5NiscbTm6qOyC The password is SabMag note the two capital letters. This usually (say 90% of the time) will show you our path about every 10 minutes, and will also display the location of any help requests or OK messages Don does have to remember to turn on the tracker function, and it will not work through dense rain, but it is better than nothing. Don will usually try to send an ok message every night. Unless he forgets. Again, better than nothing, but not foolproof.
  6. Thanks again , GF. I didn't know anything about the protests.....we'll stay clear of that, and at least go south thru SF, but we'll check the news before we kick off. As you say we could get by on the beach if we have to, no doubt. If we do get up to MSR we'll likely go back out and east to SF. Every time I've gone west out of Mike's the road was a bitch, and I'm not challenging myself these days.
  7. sdspearo, you have the hard part, desire. The rest is easy. Bikes can be had on nearly every corner.
  8. I just went right by without even looking at it, Dan. I figured you were honestly trying to warn me about Mx. Now that I've looked at it, it is kinda cute. I think I'll post it to some of my other lists. There is a real Mexaphobe on one of them.
  9. 4 of us are going down for a week in Baja. Mike from LA, Don from Co, Dan from SC, and me from Oceanside. Dan and Don are brothers (60ish), I'm older and Mike is younger. We're taking 3 cobbled together DR350s and one XR650, and will be leaving the Tecate Border around noon on Sat April 4th. We'd like to spend the first night at Mike's Sky Ranch. Could happen. We'll be packing light but with sleeping bags sos we could spend the night out if we have to. And I imagine we'll put 2 to one pavement miles to dirt miles. We'll prolly go thru San Francisquitos and as far south as Loreto. We;ll prolly take in the indian rock painting near San Ignacio, Mission San Borjas, San Javiar, the Pacific coast southwest of San Ignacio, and maybe some whale watching. Last night probably will be Coyote Cal's Hostel We sure aren't barn burners as far as making miles, but we'd like to get south and work our way back doing most of the sight seeing going north. Don and Dand need to make flights out of LA the following Sunday. Prolly could take an extra rider or 2. Riders need to be self-sufficient, In case you can't stand us. LOL Prolly can't do reports from the road, but there will be pics and a story when we get back If the group gets to big we will split it in 2 or 3. You know fast, slow, and my group feeble. Should be a good time. An ideal ride for Baja Noobies. History.... https://picasaweb.google.com/105133432232392762779/BioPhotos?authuser=0&feat=directlink
  10. Of course, what you say is true. I started this thread to talk about these Jump starters. I am convinced that while they will jump start many things, and that's useful, It is important to know what you have. My light test has told me that the 14 AHs that they claim is bullshit, and it's not going to do what I think a 14 amp hr battery should. Speaking to the 'bigger problems' issue. I ran out of gas on the Demster hwy with my DR350. That's simple enough. I had a big tank that only has a petcock on one side so I had gas in the other side....but I had to lay the bike down to transfer the gas. Well, I don't know what all happened with the situation, but I either didn't have gas going to the carb or the laying it down flooded it....but that bastard wouldn't start, and wouldn't start. I could hear my starter slowing down when it did finally start. So it doesn't take much to be a 'bigger problem'. I want 14 Amp Hrs if it says 14 amp hrs....or at least to know what to expect from the spare battery that I'm carrying.
  11. I've been doing a little testing of that Jumpstarter that I touted in the post that started all this. It's been hard for me to believe that the unit is a 14 ah battery. as in 1 amp for 14 hrs or 14 amp for 1 hr. It just isn't big enough. anyway it has a 3 watt (their claim) LED flashlight, so I turned the light on and it stayed lit for 11 hrs. Those numbers work out to the battery being a little less than a 3 amp hr capacity. So even though the unit does jumpstart things, it's not going to run a Laptop for very long, or it won't grind a starter for very long either. Say a motorcycle starter using 100 amp means it will grind it for only a minute or so.
  12. Baja is my stomping ground. I've been going there since the early '50s when I was 13 soon after I'd come to Norh County in '53 with my family. We'd escaped from Ohio. Camped there with my folks up until I started racing the Baja Races in '70. I've been going there once or twice a year since then. ....but I ride the states as well..mostly gorilla camping. After I've seen too many signs that say, "Camp in Designated Areas Only" or "No camp Fire Permitted", then is when I revert to and appreciate baja the most. This last trip to watch the Baja 1000 race a month ago will give you an idea of what Baja means to me. Wfifan2014bj1000.blogspot.com
  13. damn, guys, I don't know how I got all that garbage in that post before my message. sorry about that. I was just trying to recommend that little jump starter
  14. Pete Springer to SDAMC@yahoogroups.com 0 minutes agoDetails http://www.afterpartz.com/us/universal-vehicle-multi-function-jump-starter-car-power-supply-12000mah.html these battery kits are usually more like a hundred. When I first got the thing, I tested it and it would start my 1100cc Honda without the Hondas battery connected, but it wouldn't start my dodge Van V8 with it's battery disconnected. 72* Monday. I felt like going for a little putt. I hadn't ridden the bike 84 V65 Honda)for a couple weeks. I hit the starter and the bike fired right up, but then it died. It's been doing that a couple times during cold startups. This time it wouldn't refire upon trying. The Speed of the starter sounded normal to maybe a little bit slow....or did I read 'slow' into it because it wasn't starting. I don't know. I prolly have 3 or 4 options to jump start a vehicle here at home....but I knew this was going to be an excellent chance to try out my new Lithium jump starter. So it took me 5 minutes to go get the battery jumper starter and the Sabre started first try in an instant. I'm fast begining to like the hell out of that little battery, as an easy thing to have with me on trips or daily outing. I took it with me on my last baja trip. It sure adds peace of mind where batteries are concerned, and it has a 19v tap for Laptops as well as the 5V and 12V accessory taps. It's just a dam good thing to have with you...on your car trips as well. http://wfifan2014bj1000.blogspot.com -- 'Luck beats Good'.....Pete
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