Wow, as I think back over the last 12 months, I’m thinking that it sure was a lot of fun!
Hey, best wishes for the holidays from the crew here at CSC! And as a special feature, let’s consider some of the high points from December 2015 to December 2016!
Reaching all the way back to December of last year, a few of my favorite photos from the Colombia expedition…
With Juan and Carlos below the Volcan Nevado del Ruiz
Twisties in the Andes Mountains
In January of this past year, Joe Gresh’s story about our 5000-mile Western America Adventure Ride hit the stands in Motorcyclist magazine. Here’s the photo of Utah’s Highway 12 that formed the backdrop for this great article…
Utah’s Highway 12…as close as anyone gets to Heaven without a one-way ticket!
In February, we were busy evaluating our new TT250 model. Here’s a favorite shot of one of the four prototypes we brought in for testing…
The TT250 has been a riotously successful motorcycle, and it my “go to” bike when I want to get my knees in the breeze.
That brings us to March of last year, with our outstanding 2nd Annual Baja Run. Wow, that was fun, with some of the best whale watching I’ve ever experienced in Baja! The best way to get an overview of that awesome adventure ride is to check out our YouTube video…
April 2016 saw lots of good things happening. We were super busy that month, but I never work get in the way of a ride on my RX3 on Glendora Ridge Road!
The mighty RX3 up on Glendora Ridge Road!
May….what happened in May? Oh yeah….that’s the month Rider magazine published their road test on the RX3!
Rider magazine testing a silver RX3. This was the first year we brought in silver RX3s. I think it’s one of the best colors ever on these great motorcycles.
That brings us to June, July, and a bit of August, and those months were all about the grandest adventure ever…our 6,000-mile ride across China. That was an epic ride (one that I will never stop thinking about).
A Zongshen advertising poster…Zongshen publicized the ride widely…so much so that Gresh and I were celebrities in China!
Electric scooters in Beijing…you’ll want to pay attention to developments in this area!
The Shaolin Temple…the birthplace of Kung Fu.
The celebratory, end-of-ride dinner in Qingdao…I sure miss these guys!
There are two epic videos out on the China ride…one from Joe Gresh, and the other from Zongshen…
That brings us to September and a big event that month…the Horizons Unlimited rally in Mariposa where I saw my good buddy Rob (who may ride with us on the Baja run next year)…
Iron Butt Rob and his RX3
October saw our TT250 ride to San Felipe with a great bunch of guys…Willie, Greg, Abe, Mike, Matt, Dan 1, Dan 2…it was a grand ride on a great motorcycle!
The Rumarosa Grade on the way to San Felipe from Tecate. Dramatic riding, to be sure!
We have a short video on that ride, too…
And that brings us to November, just last month…and the big news last month was that we’re going racing with Roland Wheeler on an RC3!
Roland and his ride…a sleek blue RC3…watch for more on this activity in future CSC blogs!
The RC3 is a great bike…here’s my video on it…
And here we are, one year later, in December 2016! We’ve seen and heard about the introduction of several 250-class ADV bikes from the big boys, and we recently posted a blog about that titled “The Sincerest Form of Flattery.” The results were predictable, with a handful of keyboard commando miscreants deeply troubled by our daring to point out that others were copying us. Motorcyclist’s Joe Gresh said it best…we’ve “nudged the giant” (referring to BMW’s plans for a 310cc ADV bike). I like that.
Nudging the giant? It’s what we do best, folks!
I’m in northern California again this week, celebrating the holidays with my family and our new granddaughter. It’s been a banner year, and I’m excited about what’s coming up next year. We already have folks signed up for our PCH ride and our next Baja foray. It’s going to be fun!
Enjoy the holidays, folks….we sure are.
TT250 Enduro
SG250 San Gabriel Cafe Racer
RX4 450cc Adventure