Polish Mosins, Chinese Motorcycles, California Motor Officers, Italian Dinners, and Mexico!

Wow, there’s lots happening here!   Folks started arriving for the Baja Ride a couple of days ago, and you can feel the excitement here in the CSC plant.   Discussions on centered on what to bring, how much air to put in the tires, and all that goes with a big ride like this one.   It’s going to be a hoot!  Here’s our good buddy Fathi with his RX3, fully equipped with Wolfman luggage…

Fathi’s bike looks good, and I like the idea of the soft luggage.  Baja will give it a good workout.   It’s going to be fun, my friends.

We’re having an Italian dinner here at the plant tonight for the folks who are going on the Baja run, and immediately after dinner, we’ll be going over the route for each day, our safety and riding practices, where we’re staying, and more.  Here are just two of the slides from what we’ll be covering after dinner…

More cool stuff…another CSC RX3-P police bike went out this morning, headed to an agency in northern California!  That’s Sergeant Jack, Gerry, and Ryan a short while ago, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.

I’m having a lot of fun with the guys who are arriving for the Baja ride.   They are almost universally reviewing what they are bringing and then asking me if they should bring anything else.   As soon as they ask, I tell them about having an anti-venin kit…

I’m just joking, of course.   But so far, everyone has taken me seriously for at least a few seconds.

One more cool thing…you guys know I like playing with things that go bang (especially old military rifles, when they were real weapons with blued steel and wooden stocks).   Early this morning I scored an original Polish Mosin M44, manufactured in the 1950s, and never issued!   This is a brand new 60-year-old rifle!

I’ll be taking possession of that rifle sometime around the first week in April, and I’ll let you all know how it shoots.

Ah, Baja beckons.   Onward in our search for the great white whale!