It’s been a busy week. I guess I could say I’m doing a lot to get ready for China, but the truth is I am not. I am ready to go right now. I’ll throw my stuff in a bag when Joe Gresh gets here, and we’ll be wings in the well bound for Guangzhou.
I travel light. I’ll probably have more weight in my laptop and my camera gear than I will in my clothes. When we did our recent 8-day CSC Baja run, I was the only guy that fit everything (including my camera gear and my computer) into the RX3’s stock three luggage bags…there was nothing outside of the standard luggage on my bike. One of the Colorado boys on that ride told me he didn’t know how I could travel so light. He said he only bought four sets of underwear (and he had the larger Tourfella bags) and he still couldn’t fit it all inside. “You wear underwear?” I asked. It got a laugh.
Baja! You bought underwear?
Tuesday night was Taco Tuesday at the local Mexican place, and my daughter and I went there. I saw this really cool Jeep parked out front…
A very cool Jeep at Taco Tuesday
I always wanted a Jeep. I always wanted a Jaguar, too. And I never heard from those Bentley guys about getting my payments under $200 a month. Guess I’ll be sticking with my current wheels for a while. Still, that Jeep was awesome.
Coming home from Pasadena the other day, I noticed a sign for the ALCO target company. Shoot (to borrow a pun), it was only a couple of miles from the CSC plant, so after lunch I stopped in for a visit (the sign said it was open to the public). It was a cool place, and their prices were substantially below what I’ve been paying for targets. They had some unusual stuff for sale, too…
An ALCO ghillie suit
ALCO targets…
…and more ALCO targets
So, back to the motorcycle world. The boys are in overdrive prepping new TT250s for delivery…
Ready for crating and shipment to you!
We still provide parts and service for our CSC 150 and 250 Mustangs, and there were a couple of these classic bikes in among the TTs today…
A CSC 150 in the mix…I rode one of these to Cabo San Lucas and back a few years ago!
Our Mustang’s CG engine is the same basic design as the TT250’s engine, and these little powerplants are bulletproof.
As I was admiring the black CSC 150, I noticed my good buddy Arlene’s Go Go Gear CSC 150. Now there’s a bike with a pedigree!
We did a custom paint job for Arlene on that bike, and it’s a famous little motorcycle. In addition to making the Baja run with us several years ago, Arlene also rode it onto the stage when she appeared on the TV series Shark Tank…
The crew…famous novelist and moto-adventure rider/author Simon Gandolfi, Arlene, J, Baja John, and yours truly with Arlene’s Go Go Gear bike in Baja, on the Sea of Cortez shoreline!
Robert Herkjavec, one of the Sharks, trying on Arlene’s CSC 150 on TV!
And folks, that’s about it for today. One last shot I grabbed just a minute ago of what has become a very hot color this year…
One of our fastest colors!
See you on the road, my friends. Now, you need to get off the Internet…get out and ride!
SG250 San Gabriel Cafe Racer
TT250 Enduro
RX4 450cc Adventure