I need Baja by bicycle advice - 2000/10/18 11:04Hi, I want to bicycle tour in Baja california, in a few months. Is there anyone out there that has done it that I could correspond with? I need advice regarding equipment (tires, tubes, carrying water, etc.). I have toured in the past, but not in the desert.
re:I need Baja by bicycle advice - 2000/10/18 14:49this was an empirical observation. the ass-wholes from CA & AZ lacked the mental skills to recognize that the two POS "highway" most likely did not meet the standards for the street in front of thier house let alone interstates & could not be safely travelled at +70-mph. in '72? sounds like you followed the asphalt trucks down. did you do it w/ Bonnie Wong? my first trip was in 84 or 85. the road between Todo Santos & Cabo wasn't paved.
re:I need Baja by bicycle advice - 2000/10/18 16:08Dear B.C.,
I saw no asphalt in 1972, nor any bicycles--it was motorcycling back then. The only traffic was a kindly hunting guide pursuing mountain sheep in an elderly Willys jeep, who donated a vulcanizing repair kit, and a trio of truckers who appeared out of nowhere, ten minutes after the bead finally ripped out of my flat rear tire after 180 miles of abuse. We met no one else.
(A few improbable nails, all our spare tubes, a next-to-useless Dunlop patch kit, and the only spare tube in Bahia Los Angeles afforded me the entertainment of changing the same rear tire a total of seventeen times in two days. I'm trying to work up the courage to try patching inner tubes again, but for some reason I just can't bear it--I carry spare bicycle tubes now.)
Throughout my visit, I was assured that Baja's roads had improved since 1968. The roads were actually just ordinary desert roads winding along the mountains, no challenge at all outside the rainy season--only speed or damaged equipment made them difficult. After all, diesel trucks had been creeping up and down the peninsula for years.
Luckily, I hadn't yet read Steinbeck's "Log of the Sea of Cortez," so I didn't realize that the fellows who went fishing were probably having a much better time.
re:I need Baja by bicycle advice - 2000/10/18 19:101. you might have a better chance of responses if you post this in ".Rides". 2. where? 3. Hwy 1 sucks thanks to NAFTA. assholes from CA suck. assholes from AZ suck. (last done in '95 and can't see any reason for it getting better.) 4. the locals were (are?) great, including the bus drivers and truckers.
Re:I need Baja by bicycle advice - 2010/02/06 09:26JaguarIV wrote: Hi, I want to bicycle tour in Baja california, in a few months. Is there anyone out there that has done it that I could correspond with? I need advice regarding equipment (tires, tubes, carrying water, etc.). I have toured in the past, but not in the desert.
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Hey man Im a Baja cyclist and any help I can offer it will be a pleasure to me,, first of all my name is Adolfo and belong to http://www.rodandoenbaja.com it is a cyclist group in baja, second I ve ride from tijuana to La paz 3 years ago,, and done some other bycicle trips.
And now my new project is http://www.tourdebaja.com still under construction But.... the idea is to help people like you who wants to bycicle baja!
and in the future I want organize bycicle tours, and offer the best experiences in the best of baja, but for those who wants to ride baja by them selves i want to help them too.
rodandoenbaja@hotmail.com in the desert you can't remember your name
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Im a Baja cyclist and any help I can offer it will be a pleasure to me,, first of all my name is Adolfo and belong to 
But.... the idea is to help people like you who wants to bycicle baja!
