Corporate Outing- ATV and Wine – Corporate tour for the sophisticated and adventurous companies! Gather together your business partners or friends and come down to Baja to ride off road with us.
On this tour we will take you to an award winning winery in the Guadalupe Valle, the back way! This tour truly is a perfect way to experience the diversity of Baja Mexico. Travel the mountain trails to the winery where we advise you to soak up the experience with a side of cheese and crackers.

Incentive Tour with CMA
See what QUALCOMM had to say about their 2 Day Incentive Tour with California Motorsport Adventours for 40 of their employees. Their goal- foster communication between departments: more here…

Part of the fun of an ATV Quad and Motorcycle ride is getting into the grit. But you don’t want the grit getting into you–that’s where we come in. Let’s ATV has all the gear you need to avoid getting too gritty. Each tour and rental comes with an included gear set: helmets, goggles and gloves.
We provide hot-looking helmets to protect your gray matter. The helmets also protect the back of your neck and wrap around to protect your jaw and mouth. So you may be making the others eat your dust, but not literally. And it does matter if you wear one or not. Besides being California law, we want to protect your brain so you’re smart enough to come back and rent from us again for your next exciting trip. more here…

Honda CRF450X – the bike that everybody likes. We had people call our office and say: “what??, you don’t have any 450X? only XR’s?”. Well not long afterwards we had answered the call of our clients and purchased new Honda CRF 450 X for you. Well done we thought and showed up at long off road rides in Baja Mexico with our brand new bikes. Happy dirtbikers so we thought…

Not for long. On our first trips we had problems starting the new bikes, guys were kicking them like nuts…it looked like you have to charge them up with your leg so you can go a few miles. In our misery we have tried for years now to resolve this problem. At one time we wrote a nice letter to Honda of North America and explained them the situation. It took about a week for Honda powersport to give us a call to explain to me that our fleet of over 10 bikes were not problematic. His words: “These bikes are more sensitive than your Honda XR400 and you have to do a better job cleaning the air-filters” !! – I told the guy that I used to race Pro AMA Supercoss and know how to clean an airfilter and that a SX bike might be sensitive too. more here…

California Motorsport Adventours has gathered extensive knowledge in the off road, motorcycle tours, ATV tours and world wide travel over the years. Sharing this information has always been one of the trades that our adventure loving customers like about us and that makes them keep coming back to us. On this page we are sharing some of our knowledge and partners in the motorcycle and travel industry. Some of them might be right here in San Diego others might be half way around the world.

Motorcycle Travel:

Traveling to Costa Rica is exciting to begin with, but going there to go riding motorcycle is amazing. While exploring Costa Rica on a motorcycle from the north to south we have found the the guys from Wild-Rider very helpful and reliable, You can find their tours and rentals here.

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Come Ride with Us on Memorial Day. Break out! Do something to remember! Bring your posse and break a sweat on our Full-Day Baja ATV/Motorcycle tours in Southern California or even Mexico (after you’ve paid your respects to our veterans of course).
Don’t fall for the same ‘ol tourist traps. I mean the Pacific Beach board-walk is nice, but it’s, well, boring compared to revving your engines and riding the off-road trails in San Diego’s nearby mountains. Yes, the weather is nice this time of year but it’s not hot enough for sunbathing or swimming in the big blue. It’s better to do something you’ll remember forever with your family or friends on our quads or motorcycles. If you can’t get the beach off your brain, then this half-day trip is for you. Ride in the morning, and you can be at the beach by around 2pm. Or motor in the afternoon, and you can be at the beach for the sunset, fire pits and brews. more here…

What is a Dirt Bike or Enduro?
The name Enduro comes from mixing two words: endurance and the Spanish word for hard = duro.

First, what makes a dirt bike different than a street bike?
The most obvious distinctions of an off-road bike are the tires, suspension, and seating position. Off-road bikes tires have very big knobbies. They also have long suspensions making the motorcycle sit up much higher with a big space between the tires and the fenders. While a street bike has a low seating position that sometimes makes it uncomfortable to ride, a dirt bike seating position is upright with a comfortable knee angle. Although when you ride an Enduro, most of the off-road riding is done standing up on the foot pegs while the rider holds the bike firmly with his knees and directs it with the handlebar!

The first Enduros were created in the early 60′s by simple modifications to street motorcycles by raising the exhaust pipe and using knobby tires. Some knobbies were carved by cutting more treads into the tire with a sharp or hot knife. Ironically as more and more streets were getting paved the Enduros became more popular. My assumption is when Gottlieb Daimler (founder of Mercedes) built his Reitwagen (riding wagon), the very first motorcycle, there was no pavement. So the first bike must have been an dirt bike or Enduro by default.

Enduros have a similar suspension geometry as a motor cross bike, but the engine performance characteristics are designed to run smoother, and with less RPM. This offers a more comfortable power-band and a longer engine lifespan for short-term performances. Two great examples are the Honda XR400R, 1997-2003 (she’s still alive) versus the Honda CRF450X 2005– 2010, which is actually the replacement for the XR. The XR has a very low RPM engine with a long engine stroke, and the CRF has a higher revving engine with a small piston and a very short engine stroke (engine stroke = distance piston travels from the bottom of the cylinder to the top). The XR is known for its endurance, and the CRF is known for its shorter lifespan and much stronger engine–I guess that is what is popular now–a flashy high performance bike that needs much more attention than its predecessor.

In 1975, the Japanese introduced the Yamaha 500 Enduro. This concept bike is probably the best known by the general public. In 1977, it was the first large-scale production machine that won the 1st two editions of the Rally Paris-Dakar which made sales skyrocket. Suddenly, owning an Enduro was the new cool thing. Modern competition Enduros, and the related motor cross machines, are special interest motorcycles only bought by a small group of people. The requirements for such a bike are among the toughest for motorized vehicles: hill-climbs, river crossings, deep mud, deep sand (sometimes the engines suck in sand), hot and very cold operating conditions–these are just some of the obstacles to overcome. These and the small scale production made dirt bikes are relatively expensive compared to a flashy street bike which seems to have so much more equipment included…but of course, they aren’t as much fun in my opinion.

Today, in addition to the usual Travel Enduros, many manufacturers offer specially adapted competition sport bikes. In Europe, some smaller companies have a big market share producing the KTM 525 EXC, KTM 450 and 400, the Husqvarna TE 510, and also the Spanish manufacturer Gas-Gas has the hard-Enduro EC 300. BMW entered the hard-Enduro market with a BMW 450X. In the U.S. off-road market, Honda has its CRF 450 X, Suzuki has the DRZ 450 and so does Yamaha with the WR 450 and Kawasaki with KLX 450 and KTM is well present and winning races left and right. These Hard-Enduro machines are not really suitable for road driving, but perform like a motocross bike (comes from moto, the Spanish word for motorcycle and not motorcross)–eating and spitting the dirt and loving it. In relation to our motorcycle enduro vacations you may want to know that Our guests will be grinning from ear to ear because they get to use the hard-Enduros on endless off-road trails while our guides mount-up on the XR 400s.

We really want to give a shout out to all our ATV Riders and Motorcycle Enthusiasts that keep us busy with tours and rentals. It is now 2010, our 12 year running. We have not posted any feedbacks on our San Diego day trips lately. We have been getting so many this Spring that we had to take a moment and reflect and post them here on our ATV-Tour-Website.

Nicloe, Just want to say we all had a great time on the ATV tour, it definitely topped the deep sea fishing trip we had the next day. Also, the guides were extremely professional, did a great job and made the trip what it was. We had a samll range of riders from beginner to somewhat expericened and they worked well with and accomidated everyone. Again, thank you very much. Bernard Herrman

Myron M. had booked a Half Day US Bachelor Party Tour and had this to say after he got back from the adventure with his friends: “Awesome! Thanks for email Nicole! Yes it was frickin great! Andrew and Gus were awesome tour guides! My wedding shall be in July so I’m sure we’ll set something up with you guys again! Have a great week”. His friends said: “Good afternoon Nicole! Thanks again for all your help setting up my boy’s bachelor party. We had a great time!”.

Judy V. had a Half day US Motorcycle Trip in the San Diego mountains…she said: “Thanks, Nicole. That sounds great. What is Andrew’s last name? He was absolutely great and we forgot to tip him! I’d like to send him something.”

Vegard L. did our classic Full Day Baja ATV / Dirtbike (Mexico) trip. Which used to be so popular before the whole swine-flew and gang violence is all over the news now. He had a long tour and a short comment: “We had an awesome time!”

The pressure is on, when somebody wants to do their honeymoon with you as a our outfitter. They could go to the Bahamas instead they are riding on dusty trails in mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

Deb W. (3 Day Destination Ride) called in to personally tell me how great, amazing, terrific etc. Andrew was AND he got her to book a 5 day dirt bike tour to Gonzaga Bay for her honeymoon!

Sarah T. called CMA the Monday after her tour (1 Day Baja ATV Tour) to tell me how much fun she had during her dirt bike tour with Felipe and Waldo IN THE RAIN! She said Felipe was a great guide and made her forget how freezing she was the entire tour. She was extremely enthusiastic!

What nobody mentioned in their feedbacks is the fact that we have many new KTM motorcycles on our tours now. This is great news if you are a motorcycle rider and want to explore Baya with us or just one of our bikes that you could rent.

With so many new fans we are assured that what we are doing is still a very fun thing to do in San Diego.
This is all the News from this 2010 Spring. A big THANK YOU, Ride on and See you soon.

PART 3 – My impression on maps and my current height As I’ve established, there were no Baja maps back then, and the AAA map caused way more pain than not. The small village of Sawmill, aka Aceradero, near Laguna Hanson was still turning out lumber back then and I remember it was one of the most picturesque places I’ve ever seen. It’s just about all gone now, but then, as now, it wa a place to might be able to get gas, so we were determined to find it. The only problem being good ol’ AAA placed it about thirty miles from where it really was. Making it hard to find Sawmill was only part of the problem, because it then put everything else in the wrong place, at least in our minds. Navigating Baja has always been trouble, and AAA did nothing to help. Remember those days, and those places, makes me think more specifically about the trails. They were consistently gnarly, washed out, and if you were lucky a truck or two used these trails. That meant the tires rounded off the nastiest segments just a little. Add to all of that that bike suspension back then wasn’t more than four or five inches. No wonder I am two inches shorter than I used to be.

PART 4- Who needs suspension when you’re young? The old Puertocitos road from San Felipe was about forty miles of continuous whoops and rocks – but it was straight, so we’d fly. Now my friends and I are lazy, so for years now we have used the paved road that parallels the old roads by about one to five miles. One time we had decided to ride on the old road and since my friends had never used it, they really didn’t know what they were getting into. We had gone about three quarters of the way and inevitably someone started bitching, so I led the group left and we picked up the paved road not far away. THEN they were bitching because we had been riding over that nasty old road when the good one was so close. It’s been a good reminder to me of how well youth could offset the lack of suspension. I don’t remember that road being anything but fun and a good challenge, but on this modern day ride we were all eager to get off of it. Keep it tuned for part 5 of these Baja Trips stories.