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Any of you SDAR inmates participating? C&D Cycle sponsored Beta Motor US demo. Just curious, I will be there, hit me up if you see me. FXR BLU offroad gear with black gloves, maybe black vest or full Husqvarna Gotland WP enduro jacket if super cool temps, WHT Airoh helmet. I feel the need to ride more Italian bikes.... I ride my Malaguti Yesterday (retro) scooter (Bologna) every day and my Italian Husky TE610 (Varese) sometimes.....

I have the Adventure on my bike, with all the miles I ride on street. Don't race on dirt anymore.

In my opinion, if you ride the high or low desert here in socal, and hardpack trails, and want to cook pavement out to those trails BUT not commute/daily the bike, the Tractionator Desert H/T combo by MotoZ is the business. If You want to do the above, ...but also retain some commutability (bit better mileage rear), MotoZ Tractionator Rallz. You could also run a desert ht front, with a rallz rear - since the fronts wear slower. I would call that an "Adventure Mullet" ... Business in the front, party in the back. If you take a look at your real riding percentages and you off road sometimes but put a lot of road miles down and want a absolutely perfect 50:50 tire, Dunlop TrailMax Mission. I've helped pick up many ADV bikes with the tires that have the center continuous band (tkc-70, gps, k60), as unless you air down, that center band can cause naps. My opinions are my own, take them or leave them, and only based on a meager ~85,000 miles in the last 4-5 years across a few bikes.

Shutterrev and tntmo, thank you so much for the info and feedback. That pin map is an absolute gold mine. The Otay ride is also a definite maybe if we can put together a couple of good detours on the way back North to make a day out of it. Doesn't look like that would be hard to do either. I'm meeting my riding buddy this evening to open a discussion about ride planning. Because we are both pretty low key, easy going guys (not anal retentive) decisions won't be made right away. I just want to see some new country and hopefully meet any local riders. My friend on the other hand has a quirk. He's generally against something until he feels that the plan is, at least in part, his idea, then he's all in. He's also the other half of the partnership so I often defer to his suggestions. I bought bourbon for the occasion and should have a better sense of what's afoot tomorrow. Bikes are booked.

Another thing I noticed that worked unbelievably well was, as we went all the way down and back up the peninsula, at every mil checkpoint we would pop out the bag of motorsports stickers. Our vehicle barely ever even got looked at passed looking in the windows, they do love the stickers. I'm sure it doesn't work all the time, but I was amazed how much they love having stickers!

Try calling Baja Bound Insurance and see if they can refer you to an attorney. They certainly have contacts.