39 Days and Counting…

This is shaping up to be another great week, boys and girls….lots of good things going on, not the least of which is we have only 39 more days until we point our California Scooters toward Baja!   Well, okay, actually it’s 39 days, 10 hours, and 56 minutes.  Not that I’m counting…

The San Ignacio Mission. Yep, it's on our itinerary. Still a working church after hundreds of years of use. My good buddy Dave shot this photo on his first moto trip down this way.

Stained Glass Inside the Gustav Eiffel-Designed Church in Santa Rosalia. This is the first town we'll see on the Sea of Cortez after descending about 1500 feet in just a few miles through the twisties in a region known as La Cuesta del Infierno (take a look at the video below)!

The La Cuesta del Infierno region is a cool ride…check out this video on the descent to the Sea of Cortez…what a blast…and we won’t be seeing it through a car’s windshield!

If you have a California Scooter and you want to ride along with us, you’re in!

So, in midst of all this anticipation, we have more than a few other super-cool things in the works.   I had a real nice conversation with Doug Bingham yesterday about our California Scooter sidecar project.   Doug is the guy who’s fitting a sidecar to a California Scooter.   That’s one of many cool things about Steve and the rest of the California Scooter crew…if they’re going to do something, they always go to the best.   And when it come’s to sidecars, Doug Bingham is that man.   You’ve seen his work (perhaps without knowing it) if you’ve seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Great Escape, or just about any movie with a sidecar in it.  In that great Steve McQueen chase, yep, it was actually Doug Bingham piloting the sidecar.   And when the bad guys were chasing Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, well, it sure wasn’t Harrison Ford piloting the rig…it was none other than our man Doug.  

The Sidecar Chase Scene With Indiana Bingham...Our Motorcycle Sidecar Maestro!

Doug invited me out to his shop later this week, and if I can swing it, maybe I’ll grab a few photos for the blog.   Boy oh boy, this is gonna be fun!

I’ve also been in communication with Bill Murar this week, our Scooter Cannonball rider.   The Scooter Cannonball is just around the corner…a tiny bit more than a month away.   While I’ll be cavorting in Baja on my California Scooter, Bill will be racing from Vancouver to Maine on his bright blue Classic.  Oh yeah, things are happening!

But wait (as they say on those late night TV commercials), there’s more!   John and Steve showed me what they are cooking up for our 150cc Land Speed Record bike.   This is good stuff and it’s classified TOP SECRET, so no photos yet (actually, I forgot my camera today, but in a week or so I should be able to get a photo or two for you). 

And there’s lots more.  All good stuff.   But my focus is on Mexico!!!  It’s gonna be great!