Welcome P
P has been a great friend of J and mine since the late 90's. His adventure portfolio is rich with such shared items as cliff diving, rockclimbing, snowboarding, Friday at the Cosmopoliton, and Turtle Mnt. Escapades. Paul has some ideas to put to the group but posted them to another string. I think they are important enough to be their own post so I have re-post them here with his welcome.
D.
So, a few Punk Rawk thoughts about the bike trip:
1) Riding Enduros? Relatively inexpensive bikes; can take off road. They're decent on the highway (especially if we're not into making record times to get places) Be good for riding out to the Burning Man and other off-road adventure side treks we may want to do, especially in Mexico where the roads will be more sketchy.
2) Incorporating some surfing into the trip. If we're riding down the west coast, it would be pretty easy to stop off at various surf spots and catch waves for a few hours and then continue on. I've only started surfing and my skills are limited, but hell...we could all be half decent by the time the trip's over!
3) I'm also down with 3 weeks or a month if anybody else can afford that amount of time off. Accommodation would be cheap in Mexico and I'm thinking we could camp a lot in the US.
P.
posted by EasyRider at 11:58 AM
3 Comments:
Dust, Darc here. Punk Rawk mentioned this bike trip when I was in Van over the weekend. Sounds like an interesting trip. Keep me posted on the what and when. My initial thoughts.
Going any later then April would be killer heat wise. When I was at Coachella this year (End of April) it was ~ 101 F. One guy followed us from Vegas to Palm Springs the day before the festival. Easy drive through the Mojave.....but 100+ degrees. It was 112 in Palm Springs in July when we had a heat wave here in San Francisco. Sept / Oct may be the best times weather wise.
Possible routes on the way to Mexico, Hwy 1 through Cali (along the coast), rip through southern Utah and Mt. Zion park, hit the Grand Canyon, ride through the Mojave........gotta have a couple day stop in Vegas......then the sun and surf of Mexico. Sept is still hurricane season on the west coast of Mexico.
Pun Rawk,
I am down for around 2 weeks. Anymore than that and I do not have a place to come home to.
I think the surfing is a fucking amazing idea. If we are following the coast it would be easy to check out the local surf hot spots.
As far as enduros I think that each of can choose the bike that best suits his riding aspiration. I am all ready for a Vespa.
D
Welcome Lethbians!
So good to see more and more people on board with this. Paul and Darc, sorry it's been such a long time...
j.
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