Happy New Year!

Wow, here we are…it’s 2018 already!  Happy New Year, everybody!

I thought we would take a quick look back at 2017 through some of my favorite photos first, and then talk a bit about what 2018 holds for us…

Roland Wheeler campaigned a CSC RC3 and took first place for the year in the F Superstock class! Way to go Roland!

US Army Command Sergeant Major Jerry Jacobitz bought an RX3 in February, becoming the highest ranking NCO ever to ride one of our bikes!

March brought our 3rd Annual CSC Baja Run and good buddy Dan Nibbelink (the most photogenic guy in the world) rode with us!

We announced the Café Racer in April and I posted several cool videos of it.  The colors on the production bikes will be different.  Interest in these bikes continues to be off the charts.   Keep an eye on the blog for more info as we get closer to bringing these bikes to you!

May saw the arrival of the new CSC RXR, a stripped-down, 50-lbs lighter version of the RX3!

A quick visit to Chongqing for a test ride on the new RX4 in June!

Our July CSC ride to Crystal Lake saw triple digit temperatures and an encounter with a friendly bear. That’s good buddy Duane (not the bear) in the photo above!

In August, my good buddy Josh posted this awesome video of his TT250 desert foray…

In September we posted this collage of the CSC staff!

October saw our CSC blog ranked among the Top 15 motorcycle blogs in the world!

Moto Baja! hit the presses in November! It’s great, and you should buy several copies!

Things were super busy in December, and it was the toughest month for me to select a photo to include here. I went with a photo of my RX3’s fuel tank, which was the pic I included with the blog on Motorcycle.com’s story about our Baja rides!

2018 is looking to be another great year.   Consider what we have going…

• The 2018 TT250s are due to arrive within the next couple of weeks (they’re on the water now).
• The Café Racers have been approved by the US EPA.   We’ll be ordering those in the very near term.
• The 2018 RX3s are built and they’ll be hitting the water momentarily.   We’ve got new colors we’ll announce shortly, and they all look great.  One of them I predict will sell out very quickly, but you can be the judge when we post the colors.
• We’ve got a run to see the Owen Collection (the finest collection of vintage motocrossers ever).  Hey, that’s this Saturday!
• The 2018 CSC Baja run (our 8-day, 2,000-mile jaunt around the Baja peninsula) is going to be 10-17 March.   I love all of our rides, and I especially love this one.
• We’ll be offering a complete line of accessories for the new Café Racer, and you’ll here about them right here on the CSC blog first.
• We’ll be posting a complete set of maintenance tutorials on the Café Racer, just as we have done for the TT250, the RC3, and the RX3.   They’ll be posted before the bikes arrive so you’ll be able to perform all required maintenance activities on your new Café Racer.
• We’ll be doing another 4-day TT250 run down to San Felipe.  Watch the blog for our schedule on this ride.
• We’ll be doing another Southwest ride sometime next year.  There’s been some talk about heading all the way to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico on this ride.  Watch the blog for our schedule on this one, too!
• We’ll be doing our dual sports and donuts rides on the first Saturday of every month.   Like I said above, the first one this year is to see the fabulous Owen Collection!
• We’ll keep your favorite blog going strong!

Folks, 2018 is going to be a great year!