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.

Peru and South America has blew our mind when we first where down there to handle a large project for a client. Searching for the right partner there has lead us to the guys from Peru Motors the place to go to. Located in the south of Peru and allow you to travel in Bolivia is just one of the reasons we would go to them first.

Spain, When going to Europe we like to point you to one company. Red Treat got what we would want… bikes, service, trails and a passion for riding that shows in every of their tours.

When we went to Morocco in 2007 for a clients trip we had to ship all our motorcycles and ATV’s into the country. Now while there we have seen a very different country. Traveling from Casablanca south east over the Atlas Mountains then into the Sahara desert was an amazing adventure. Today you can just call and book a motorcycle tour in Morocco.

If your same old motorcycle tour will not cut it, if you have been everywhere and now looking for the next “kick in the butt” then you may want to look these guys up. SASVE Internationals Global Travels department is making World Wide VIP Adventure Trips possible.

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gear-small7 picturesMay 7, 2010

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.

Now we get to goggles. We’ll give you a pair. Not only do they cut down on glare, you will need them to block dust and small rocks. You’ll also need them to see the trail as you’re passing your buddies or negotiating the uneven terrain.

Gloves–you’ll be happy to wear them. They help you grip the throttle and keep you from getting blisters from all of the riding and revving that you will do. Also, just in case you decide to push the limit a little and end up tipping over, they keep your hands protected from sharp rocks and abrasions.

Going with this included gear set means that you should also wear long jeans, closed-toed shoes (preferably ankle-height), and an extra set of socks. Oh, and make sure you shake all of your clothes and socks outside of the house before going in–you don’t want to leave a trail in there.

To complete your road-warrior look (and to keep you in one piece), our full gear upgrade includes matching pants and jerseys, chest protectors and elbow pads for your upper body. We protect your lower body from rocks, ruts and roots (or the occasional spill) with kneepads and boots. Besides the extra protection, you’ll look cooler completely decked out in all of your pictures that you may want to put on our Facebook page. Plus you can turn all of the gear in at the end of the adventour and leave the dust with us.

Of course all of the gear is called protective gear not safety gear, you need to use the brain inside your helmet to make good decisions and stay safe enough to ride another day.

Who used the gear last? We scrub all of the gear and wash it inside and out. The only thing you’ll get from us is clean gear–any dust will be provided by you. |Written by: DL Hall

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Mexico Riding12 picturesMay 8, 2010

Don’t fall for the same ‘ol tourist traps. I mean the Pacific Beach boardwalk 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.

Stay away from the stale and motor with Let’s ATV in Mexico for a day. See and experience new cultures. Our private ranch, with 2 racetracks, gets your heart pumping before you head out on the trails where it will really pound. We’ll leave the beach and head toward the mountains. Then break for lunch, I mean REAL Mexican food, not the watered-down version we have here. A native of this beautiful country makes fresh tortillas and tacos for us.

After lunch, it’s decision time. Head up into the rugged mountains or go to the sand dunes. They each have their appeal. The expert guides will help you decide based on your age and skill level. The sevrice and guides are great. They make sure you don’t worry about the details before you take off for your 6+ hours of riding. They will meet you at the border or even pick you up at your hotel to get on our vans. All of the gear you need is provided–helmets, goggles and gloves. If you want to be fully decked out, then pants and jersey are available for rent. Oh yeah, they provide water too.

Oh well, there is one detail you need to deal with. Remember your passport. You will need it to get across the international border between the United States and Mexico. If you don’t have your passport yet, go to your main post office or contact the where to get my passport site for more information.

Let’s ATV, that’s the place to be on Memorial Day. |Written by: DLHall

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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.

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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.

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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.

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On an earlier trip we left Ensenada and headed out to San Felipe, forty riders strong. At the time paved roads that led to Ojos Negros ended at the pepsi stand about 10 miles east of Ensenada and quickly became two track trails. The SCORE races often use it for some current races, but back then it was a much longer route that took you up a mountain over looking Ojos, and it didn’t cut through any ranches, it was really remote, even more so than today. Once we reached the overlook we had this overwhelming ‘HALLALUJAH! Civilization!” feeling.

A little premature celebration. For the decent down we broke into smaller groups, hoping it would increase our survival rate. I selected a group of compassionate looking riders, those who might not leave me if I did break down. That was how I met Rich Rowell, and we’ve been long time friends ever since. Anyway, all of the seperate groups were now scattered all over Baja, and if there was someone who actually knew the way he was quickly long gone. Together, my group and I were trying to find out way to Independencia, short for Los Ninos Heroes de la Independencia, where we could fill up on gas. We were somewhere west of our destination, and well into our reserve tanks and getting nervous, when we came upon a small dried out lake bed- about a mile in diameter with a ranch building in the middle. Desperate for gas we rode up and called to the possible owner, but it seemed that no one was there. Sitting out in the open was a fifty-five gallon drum- with gas inside. So we siphoned some gas, terrified the entire time that the owners would show up with guns blazing. I dumped some oil in the gas tank, left five bucks sitting on the drum under a rock, shook my bike a few times to mix the oil and gas and took off in a panic. I got about 400 yards and, “Glub!”. That’s when I learned that if you are going to add oil right into your gas tank you better remember to turn off the gas tap first.

So we sat in the middle of this dry lake, under the blazing sun, for about an hour while I stripped the carburetor on my Husky. I had just bought it from Malcom, a few years before “On Any Saturday” ever came out. He was just as friendly and modest then as he is today. Of the group that had started out riding, only about twenty, roughly half, actually showed up in san Felipe. I was one of them. I just wasn’t riding. My bike had seized and spent the last forty or so miles in the back of a truck with wooden stakes for sides. And of those twenty only three or four actually tried to ride back to Ensenada. I never heard of them again, so either they made it, or they didn’t. My first two memories of San Felipe are really polar opposites. My first flight to Baja I flew over it and thought, why would anyone ever want to go to that sunbaked, two block square piece of nothing? My second encounter was when I arrived on this bike trip, and let me say, paradise never looked better.

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Nicole called to ask me whether I had any Baja memories and I told her I was drawing a blank. Now, at four in the morning I can’t sleep because my mind is going a mile a minute. That denoted real fast, but I guess only to us old timers I can’t remember hearing it from the mouths of you young whipper snappers. When I first moved out to California from Philadelphia in 1964 I discovered Baja, at the time it was basically only Tijuana and Ensenada. I got myself a plane and found out there was a little more down there. One of my earliest trips abroad was to Bahia de los Angeles with my wife in my Convair L-13, a plane nobody remembers. I was still a student pilot and technically it was illegal to have anyone with me, but I’ve been known to break a rule or two. Lucky for me she thought I could do no wrong. think of those girls who recklessly go para sailing. They faithfully allow themselves to get towed behind a speedboat because of their memories of being safe with daddy. We guys know better and stay away from the parachute rides.

At the time paved roads were obsolete, anything resembling pavement ended just south of Ensenada. Reaching a place like Bahia, which was basically inhabitated by a single family at the time, was only possible by boat. The alternative would be to attempt a death defying landing on the East to West dirt air strip. At the end of it was a small building with six doors in it, this was the motel. Or if you had less luck, and couldn’t get your plane down in time to avoid crashing into the mountains on the other end, it could serve as yours brakes.

Anyway, as often happened the westerly winds came tumbling over the mountains and as I came in to land the plane was bouncing up and down about 30 feet or more, and I was expecting my first attempt would park me in the bedroom, so I decided to take the plane around again…with zero success.

Haha, at the time I had only 5 hours of solo flying under my belt, and I felt I was ready for Baja.

Finally the third or fourth attempt got us on the ground, but WAY too fast, and despite my plane being well equipped we came to a stop with the propeller peeking in the doorway of that 6 door motel.

Actually landing the plane was great, but the really memorable thing about this trip was the two desert sleds we encountered later. As we enjoyed our luxurious trip to Bahia two guys came in on motorcycles with two huge backpacks, everything was completely covered in dust and they looked like fugitives from the French foreign legion. The first guy rode in on a Triumph 650 and his buddy was on a BSA 750 Triple, together they were headed to La Paz. Back then finding fuel was a real challenge and getting lost was even more dangerous; they had had their trials with both and had been on the trail for about a week already.

By then was 31 and had retired from AMA racing because supposedly I was over the hill for professional racing, but when I saw these guys it rekindled my passion for riding. Those two guys are responsible for all of the fun, and the pain, that the past 46 years of Baja riding has brought me. But also for the priceless memories. All of the great guys, and girls, I’ve met over the years. And honestly, almost all of my friends to this day are a result, directly or indirectly, from the life I’ve had in Baja and riding dirt bikes.

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Riding Lessons Part of a California Motorsport Adventours vacation is to be introduced to ATV’s or Dirt Bike Riding and the fun that comes with it when you do it the right way.
If you desire one on one attention and the student/ teacher experience that comes with riding alongside one of our professional guides, then ask us about our lessons. Our guides will show you, your friends, wife, or kids how to ride Dirt Bikes, Atv Quads or Jet Skis.

We will work on:

• use of clutch gears and shifting
• riding position on the bike
• selecting your lines
• riding in sand
• riding on trails
• riding on dirt
• cornering

Safe Riding Pricing:
2hr lesson – $145 (Sand Dunes only)
This Lesson includes your ATV/DB, private instructor, and gear. It excludes transportation to the riding site. This may be arranged at an extra cost. Add an extra hour for $50. In order for this to be accommodated, the extra hour must be arranged prior to lesson day.

4hr Lesson – $235 (Sand Dunes only)
This lesson includes your ATV/DB, private instructor, and gear. It excludes transportation to the riding site. This may be arranged at an extra cost. Add an extra hour for $75. In order for this to be accommodated, the extra hour must be arranged prior to lesson day.

Full day Lesson – $475, this option includes instructor, ATV/DB, gear, & transportation.
Riding with us in the dirt is such a great practice before doing your DMV Motorcycle License Test. This will also help you to get around in unique environments like the beautiful sand dunes or the mountain trails of Southern California, Baja California Mexico or the waters of the Sea of Cortez.

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