Looks like we’re at 12 people already confirmed for the 2018 Baja ride, and that leaves only three spots. If you want to ride with us, let us know quickly!
My good buddy Alfonso sent this to me. It’s a YouTube about one of Keanu’s custom creations and that’s all cool, but the real cool part is when they ride alongside an RX3 at about 18:20…
Alfonso, thanks for sending this to us!
I’ve had several inquiries lately regarding the dates for the next CSC RX3 Baja run, so here it is: 10 March to 17 March 2018. Those are our dates (it’s Saturday to Saturday). If you are planning to ride with us, what I’d like to get from you is an email providing your phone number and if you are willing to share a room with another rider. You have to be on an RX3 for this ride (and if you don’t have an RX3, we have an app for that!). The slots fill up quickly, so let me know as soon as possible if you plan to ride with us. We limit participation to 15 riders (and I’m one of them). We will be posting more information in the near future. If you would like to know more about the CSC Baja expeditions, you might want to purchase a copy of Moto Baja! Please send your emails to me at info@cscmotorcycles.com.
Come ride with us!
North Carolina, today, and it’s 3 hours later than usual for me. I was up at 4:00 a.m this morning, but that’s really 7:00 a.m in Left Coast time, so I guess I could say I slept in. No, wait a minute, I got that backwards. It would be 1:00 a.m. in California! Whatever. It’s colder than California here, but that’s okay.
So I’m up early reading one of my favorite moto mags (Motorcycle.com) and I noticed an interesting article on the most expensive production motorcycles in the world. We’re talking about bikes from the low $30K range up to $200K. Yikes. Anyway, it was an interesting read, and you can see it here.
Moto Baja! is doing well, and I’m working on the Kindle version now. I had my first review on Amazon from my good buddy Marty, and it was great…
I have a history with Joe Berk. I’ve known for a long time his love of Baja. He urged me to go there and I resisted due to my belief that everything south of the border was banditos, narco nutters, mordida, and bad bacteria. One day I said okay, to hell with it, I’m going. And am I ever glad that I did — thank you, Joe, for stunning scenery, great roads (excellent asphalt for my autobahn-burner), wonderful food, and best of all, the friendliest people I’ve ever met on this planet. You might think that I speak Spanish and you would be wrong. Somehow friendly ways are a language all its own. Yes, I went back for more. For seasoned motorcyclists, Joe has much to say that makes great good sense on the subject of small capacity motorcycles — pay attention. You are lucky, in this book you get to meet a man who is a force of nature, a rider, an adventurer, a complete human being.
Everything is colorful in Baja…even the cemeteries!
So, back to that Kindle thing. It will be a week or so before the Kindle version of Moto Baja! goes live. When I wrote Moto Baja!, my objective was to focus on the photography (Baja is a photographer’s paradise). I wanted the book to be in color, but I also wanted to keep the page count reasonable to keep the cost to you down. When you do a book in color, Amazon treats every page as a color page (even those with text only), and that drives the cost up. To get the page count down, I went to a slightly reduced font size (don’t worry; it’s still very readable), two columns per page, and a landscape orientation. That worked and the book looks great, but all that fancy formatting threw me a curve when I uploaded it to Kindle. It was back to the drawing board for me, and I’m laying it all out in a Kindle-friendly format now. For those of you who are waiting on the Kindle version, all I can say is hang in there; it will be soon. And for those of you who want the print version, more are inbound to CSC and more will be available on Amazon. Moto Baja! is selling well, and we are printing more to keep up with the demand.
Debbie, a cocktail waitress at the Colorado Belle…a photo from the Destinations Deal Tour.
And the title of this blog? It’s not just because I’m out here on the east coast for a day or so…it’s Willie Nelson! Yep, he’s going to be live at the Colorado Belle in Laughlin, Nevada, and Susie and I will be there. You’ll remember that our Destinations Deal group stayed in the Belle on the first night of our four-state ride, and the Belle’s River Bar had a killer band playing that evening. And one time about 20 years ago on one of the Laughlin River Runs I had the great pleasure of listening to Mickey Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) at the Colorado Belle. The place just attracts great music. The opportunity to hear Willie Nelson in concert at the Colorado Belle is too good to let get away. Next month I’ll be on the road again…specifically to hear Willie Nelson sing that very song!
My good buddy Joey (one of our service techs) had an RX3 out yesterday and I grabbed a couple of photos…
They tell me orange is the fastest color, you know…
Steve had posters prepped for the Long Beach IMS show and I really like them. We have the posters on display in our new showroom and I thought I would share a few of them with you…
The posters look great!
My good buddy Carlos posted these photos on Facebook this morning!
Carlos rode with us in Baja and everyone loved the guy. I taught him a little Spanish while we were in Baja and he got along famously with everyone.
Carlos, thanks very much for purchasing Moto Baja! I am looking forward to riding with you on the next Baja expedition!
Good buddy Jim and his new blue RX3!
That good-looking youngster in the photo above is my good buddy Jim, who picked up his new RX3 this morning. TK (who also rides a blue RX3) made sure I knew that blue is the fastest color. I’m in the CSC plant today, and I had a great conversation with Jim. Jim may be riding with us next year on the Baja ride, and I’m hoping he does.
More great rides are coming up, and I need that. I love getting out for days (and sometimes weeks) at a time exploring the world on my motorcycle, and I also like the day rides. We had a fantastic time on the Destinations Deal ride, just like we do on the Baja rides, the China ride, the Colombia ride, and all the rest.
And on that subject, we haven’t had a Saturday dual-sports-and-donuts ride in a while, and that’s because I’ve been on near non-stop travel for the last two or three months. I’m off to North Carolina the first week in December, and that puts us too close to Christmas to do a Saturday ride next month. So, mark your calendars for January 6th. That will be our next Saturday ride. I’m trying to set it up so we can visit the Owen Collection (that’s a world class private museum of vintage motocrossers to be featured in the next issue of Motorcycle Classics magazine). But don’t worry; if we can’t get in there, we’ll pick a great ride somewhere else. Wherever we ride, it will on 6 January 2018, and I hope you’ll be able to join us. We welcome all brands on our Saturday rides.
The Owen Collection!
As soon as we get the 2018 TT250s in stock, I’ll be setting up another 4-day San Felipe run. San Felipe is an awesome TT250 destination. Hey, a free Baja tour with your new TT250…it just doesn’t get any better than that! Ask any of the guys and gals who have ridden with us, and get yourself a copy of Moto Baja! We’ll also be doing our 8-day RX3 ride next March, and that will be a hoot, too.
We’re down to just a handful of 2017 RX3s now. The new ones will be here sometime after the 1st of next year, and Steve is offering killer deals on the few remaining 2017 models. Give us a call, and we’ll get you on a brand new RX3!
TT250 Enduro
SG250 San Gabriel Cafe Racer