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About Zubb

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  • Birthday February 17

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  • Where I Prefer To Ride
    Dirt & Street - I'll ride anywhere and everywhere because I just like to ride.
  • Location
    La Mesa
  • Interests
    Big Bike touring/camping/coaching, dirty sandy routes, Baja, surfing, Trap/Skeet, Serpentine pavement,
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  1. Zubb

    FREE - Camco Group 31 Battery Box

    Thank you. I’ll PM Dave @DSM8
  2. Zubb

    FREE - Camco Group 31 Battery Box

    I’ll take it. Been looking for this. Will pick up at Dave’s if that works for both of you.
  3. It started at/near Doghouse junction. Maybe we need an Otay thread.
  4. Welcome fellow north Idahoan! The riding down here is a tad different as you may have discovered. Would love to meet up for coffee and a ride... Just a quick suggestion or two about the border right now. You are right on for wanting to ride the wall, it's pretty amazing in many ways. I'd be at a heightened state of awareness and alertness right now. A hiker was robbed and shot a couple times near Valley of the Moon/ Jacumba and helo'ed out yesterday. They believe it was cartel. I was going to ride that Monday but think I'll let it cool off a bit. This pretty much never happens, but I suspect recent political events has triggered a brief change of behavior until the new norm settles in. https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/hiker-injured-in-shooting-near-jacumba-involving-suspected-cartel-members/?email=031b810ddfc79850f171d1407204feca56eb8865&emaila=9eeb46132f9d45e8ca8edb18cb93b7b8&emailb=aab751a4b147d93a4e2dd86c2bf834870e04dd2df4d490192cb10662124b0b2e&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Personalized Afternoon News 2025-01-23 A friend reported yesterday that Otay Mtn (a very popular ADV bike ride) is crawling with Border Patrol, and migrant sitings are way down. This is a good thing, but tensions are a bit elevated. Not to mention he literally had just returned to Hiway 94 and saw the smoke rolling over the top. The mountain is very seriously on fire. This pic from his deck when he got home. My recommendation is to ride Borrego / Julian / Salton Sea/ Ocotillo .... and give the border wall a little time and space if you're riding alone. Baja itself seems to be cool and business as usual, but the wall itself is something I'd save for Feb or Mar (probably). There's just no need really to go ride and possibly complicate things for BP and the marines along the wall right now. Welcome! Maybe I'll see you in Idaho this August/Sept! Kelly/Zubb
  5. MachineartMoto X-Head BMW R1250 / GS / GSA / RT / RS / R 2019-2023 $230 new, I’ve put the proper patina on them just for you! $125 shipped or $100 U-Pickup in La Mesa.
  6. Zubb

    Tech Day - 2/22

    No can do boss. Q1 is a very busy Baja schedule for me. Have fun!
  7. I need to map that out and ride it. Sounds like a great day.
  8. Thanks. I really dig the blue white of this bike too. And that motor!! Now if I can just get it sprung for my weight … hopefully in a few weeks.
  9. I’ve never seen or heard of a truck trail that was closed to bikes only.
  10. I jumped onto a quick ride with a few friends yesterday. From Otay Lakes up to Tecate Peak. The road has been graded and pretty smooth overall. It was actually gorgeous with all the burned brush on both sides of the trail. I wanted to stop and take a few moto-photos of the bike against the blackened earth and brush, but didn't want to hold up the group. Met this guy at the Tecate border. He was from Oregon, heading to Argentina on his '78 Yamaha 500XT if I remember correctly. Two 890's, my 901, an Africa Twin and a boxer. Sammich's at the top. In a pretty stiff wind. Enough to keep us mostly behind the shelter so we could talk easier. Earlier on the ride up we noted the Barret Jnctn gate was wide open, so thought on our return we'd scoot up over the hills and take the back way into/onto Otay mountain. But alas, on our return it was locked shut. If you didn't know, ... the work around the side of that gate has been blocked. It doesn't look real official to me so I'm wondering if the Farmer to the west just decided to block it off. I had an "interesting" encounter with him years ago and was not impressed with his social skills. So we popped in at Marron Valley Rd (to the gun club) and headed all the way to the border. I haven't ridden that road in at least a couple years now due to the extremely high illegal immigrant traffic. It was sad to see all the trash on the road. The gate that's usually closed but not locked was wide open. No marines posted there like there were a few years ago. No border patrol jeeps at all. Just small groups of migrants scattered here and there on the road. The TJ river valley back there is gorgeous. It would be idyllic for a farm or ranch if it weren't for all the foot traffic. If you continue west toward where the wall starts, you'll find there's now a locked gate right at the end of the wall. So this was an out and back. I do miss the days not too long ago when you could get "on the wall" near the prison and ride east pretty much to Jacumba. The most dramatic sites really were along that whole section from the gate at the end of the wall westward. All in, it was a fun day tooling around on the ADV bikes. Good times, good people, great weather!
  11. 😁Since I live in Adv bike world I don’t realize that. Guess ya really do learn something new everyday.
  12. Are you sure that’s a rear tire?
  13. Howdy, the sale continues... Mosko Moto Nomini tank bag. Brand new, not mounted. Normally $95, but on holiday sale for $75. My price $50 for local pickup. https://moskomoto.com/collections/motorcycle-tank-bags/products/nomini-tank-bag-uncoated-fabric Thought I needed this as I ran the Pico on my GS for a couple years and loved it. Decided finally to not deploy this. DM me for questions...
  14. Thanks Tom, and to those who left the warm comfort of their couches to get out and ride, camp, and blow the dust off their gear and replace it with frost. I haven't had a lot of opportunity this year to ride with local friends on local trails, so I sure wasn't gonna let weather deter me. And since I had a new pony in the stable, thought I'd load it up with a "max load out" kit to see how it all fit and handled. By the time I packed the winter sleeping bag, a beer hydro flask, an extra layer of insulation and a chair ... she was starting to look like the Beverly Hillbillies. My normal BDR type touring load out is about 1/3 less "crap" than this. I cranked up the preload to Max minus a quarter turn, set the shock and forks to Max Load on the chart in the owners manual and thought it all a good starting place before the fiddling otherwise. Frankly, I wasn't sure anyone would show up outside of Tom and Udo. Which matters not, as "have motorcycle, will travel". but was very happy to see a turnout and got to meet a few new faces and see their machines. Standard photo stop at the ol' trading post... It started raining enough to soak a jersey, so I pulled off under a tree and began unpacking the jigsaw puzzle on my tail rack. Unpacking your kit, removing helmet and gloves, wriggling into an orange waterproof straight jacket is the equivalent of presenting a cross to a vampire... and the black clouds departed taking their nasty payload with them. In spite of my portly stature, and Kitchen Sink load out, the blue KTM was thrilling the heck out of me. Camping ensued. Boots were melting like marshmallows. Note the giant puff marshmallow sized blob that dripped off the sole on the fire ring. A not so subtle reminder that regardless of how cold my feet were ... pro'ly shouldn't put my new Gaerne's up on that fire ring. I made a cup full of Idaho Mashed Potatoes and then stabbed 3 each 1/3lb hot sausages onto the AdjustaFork and pulled some coals off to the side for cooking. Shared some of those around, and Alex brought a gallon zip lock full of Yellowfin steaks. Damn! As in, damn-tasty. Those things roasted up wonderfully over the fire. It gets dark so dang early, that most of us were played out by 9pm, so off to bed. I was jolted awake at some point early in my sleep by what I thought was a truck shining his headlights dead on at my tent. Then realized the moon was actually the culprit. It was only about "dusk dark" all night because of that dang moon. It was cold. And I got up just before sunrise next morning. A gently reminder, it could be worse. We could be in Montana, or North Dakota or something. Sunrise temp at Warner Springs was 32*. So using ChatGPT to calculate the Indian Flats Campground temp, it was right about 27* in camp. That was somewhere around 6:30 a.m.ish. A roaring breakfast fire always helps clear the cobwebs. Coffee was poured, breakfast was scrounged from various packs and eventually everyone fell into "disperse" mode. I wanted to scout the rest of the trail north to Anza as I haven't ridden it in a year or more. Tom (young Tom, not Old Tom) decided to ride with me and we had a great time of it. I was having a blast connecting with the blue beast. She wheelies easy as pie over rocks and ruts and such, and when it flies, it lands on a cloud compared to the BMW. I had a little too much fun and lost my center bag along the way. But it was found a quarter mile back or so and I repacked in earnest this time. No further failures to report. We stopped at a couple scenic points and talked motorcycle setup and other stuff. Chatted with some 2 strokers heading south, all in all a pretty perfect kind of day. Fueled up the bikes and our bellies in Anza and parted ways for home. This 901expedition is a treat to ride. Very playful. I did bottom out twice and will schedule a trip to see George for springs. Even though this suspension is top-of-the-foodchain, the proper spring weight for my beer soaked carcass should be done. Can't wait to drop the camping gear and give this a good ringing out in Borrego and Baja. Looking forward to the next Noob's Campout come springtime. Thanks Tom for making this happen.
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