• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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2014 Tecate Enduro........6DEC....

Trav and Sara have been riding down in Baja with me for a couple years now, it has got to the point that trav is usually in the front. Not really surprised at all he did so well. I think he is a little disappointed with his results, but 21st overall? That's pretty bad ass!
I have been telling Jake about this place for years now, so glad he commited this year, he was back quite a ways from trav on the first loop, but I guess there were some pretty good bottlenecks on loop 2. This is were jake really shines. I have been in races with Jake in the northwest were I have witnessed jake work a bottleneck. I have never seen anyone get through them faster! When he went to Erzberg with Don last June, that was the one thing I had hoped jake could help Don with was the bottlenecks, but even a pro rider like Don can not do what Jake can in that situation. I learned at last years hare scramble not to go around those bottlenecks, as the trees/bushes are like penetrating a wall! I think Trave learned that lesson this year.
Also very glad that Tim came along, although he houred out, along with the masses, I hope that he enjoyed it enough to come along again for next years HS.
We originally had about 8 riders, but only 3 made the sign up cutoff. Once again, very glad for the club to see them have such an epic event!
 
with the standard HS on the 2015 agenda, that makes it a less of a race chore. its easier to combine it into an upper Baja trail tour type vacation. bajabound adventures specializes in doing that sort of thing for example.
 
knevo said:
Trav and Sara have been riding down in Baja with me for a couple years now, it has got to the point that trav is usually in the front. Not really surprised at all he did so well. I think he is a little disappointed with his results, but 21st overall? That's pretty bad ass!
I have been telling Jake about this place for years now, so glad he commited this year, he was back quite a ways from trav on the first loop, but I guess there were some pretty good bottlenecks on loop 2. This is were jake really shines. I have been in races with Jake in the northwest were I have witnessed jake work a bottleneck. I have never seen anyone get through them faster! When he went to Erzberg with Don last June, that was the one thing I had hoped jake could help Don with was the bottlenecks, but even a pro rider like Don can not do what Jake can in that situation. I learned at last years hare scramble not to go around those bottlenecks, as the trees/bushes are like penetrating a wall! I think Trave learned that lesson this year.
Also very glad that Tim came along, although he houred out, along with the masses, I hope that he enjoyed it enough to come along again for next years HS.
We originally had about 8 riders, but only 3 made the sign up cutoff. Once again, very glad for the club to see them have such an epic event!
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SoCal/Tecate trail stuff from experience when skirting bottle necks choose wisely like anywhere not to find a hidden rock or too thick brush, but if you see a big dead manzanita in front of you, just get all tuck down NFL like and blast into the thing, the wood is very hard and will shatter. You can rip a path through stuff your mind thought was impregnable. Of course best to take a pause and really assess your path rather than getting all screwed up and taking more time and energy to get through.
Just be careful when bush whacking----
 
climberevan said:
Wow, what a fun race! It was my first motorcycle race of any kind, and I don't think I could have chosen a better one. It was pretty much a dream day.
I was on Mike Kay's line (he's a good friend of Jack, my friend who encouraged me to go down there). Of our group of 7 racers, I was the only one who finished (67th overall, 17th in Vet class). We were directly behind Ramirez, and Jack had said that a good plan would be to keep him in sight. We kept him in sight for about 3 seconds after he started at the resets... ;)

I didn't know it was possible to hour out once we started the 3rd loop, so I backed way off and basically rode at a trail riding pace the rest of the way--I'm lucky to have not been cut! I think the 5th timed section was technically the most difficult, but the 4th section was pretty strenuous since it was so continuous. If the 3rd loop had really been harder than that I bet the number of finishers would have been cut in half.

I believe I met Jake at the party after the race. I was on my clapped-out KTM 200 (with Kayaba forks), but from his raving it sounds like I may be looking for a WR144 to replace it, since I'm small & am always searching for the smallest, lightest bike that will do the job (and I'm totally over PDS). In this race in particular there was almost nowhere a 450 would have been an advantage, save the few short sand wash sections where I was really wringing my 200's neck.

I think I also met Cyril (was he the guy with the Vanagon Westy?). I drove my blue '85 Vanagon there from Tahoe with my bike on the bumper. Good times!

If every moto race were like this one I'd be totally addicted!

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Yes Cyril (FRA) has the VW camper, I slept in the pop up, he missed the cut off at near 90 miles in... he was on his Beta 300RR with horn (an item I am going to add to my machine!!). Nice job on the finish!! @ a 1/3 finish rate!! Jakes WR144 Husky is super smooth as I could hear on his viddys, he uses a Doma pipe with a Lectron carburetor, thing just sounds soo clean all the time. Being Italian Huskys and non-current good examples can be had for pennies on the dollar. Good seeing you down there!
 
climberevan said:
I believe I met Jake at the party after the race. I was on my clapped-out KTM 200 (with Kayaba forks), but from his raving it sounds like I may be looking for a WR144 to replace it, since I'm small & am always searching for the smallest, lightest bike that will do the job (and I'm totally over PDS).
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Do a 165 husky, much more forgiving than the 144 IMHO. The 144's can have quite a hit where the 165 can be very linear and easy to use.

Nice effort and what a cool first race!!!
 
Mike Kay said:
Congrats to Los Ancianos MC for putting on yet another epic event. Race of the year!
I cant imagine just how much work it was cutting all that trail, marking it, then running the event.
Thanks to Mag 7 for the help running fuel out to the remote pit.
Thanks to all supporting this event.

My race:
6th row, right behind Ivan Ramirez. At the start a drone is hovering a few feet above my head. First time i ever saw a drone. Kinda cool. Off we went. It was all just epic, first time i ever had 'too much' traction. RM 4 or 5 or so i dabbed with my left foot for a second and managed to twist my knee in just the wrong way. Couldnt stand on the pegs after that, but hey its an enduro and while it slowed me down, and im not sure i would have finished, i was able to push on and have some fun. Pulled in 4 mins early and took off on the first timed section, a very easy and super fun ride. Then the Beta just shut down! Pulled over, and nothing. Spark? Yes. Gas? yes. Compression? yes? Worked on it for an hour, watched everyone go by. Dave Adams from Los Ancianos riding sweep pulled up, we looked at spark and gas again and pulled the jets and then agreed it just wasnt gonna start. Towed back to the campground. Thank you for the help! Congrats to all the finishers. We had 6 solid guys in our posse, and only 1 finished. Getting to the end was a major accomplishment. 2 smokes where the answer. Most of the DNF's seemed to be the bigger 450's.

-Ekim
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Your bike issue was discovered today. A small screw in the carb came loose...(red loctite on it now). I believe it was connecting the slide to the throttle. George spent a while eliminating other issues by doing leak-sown and checking spark.
Hard to believe that screw would vibrate loose. George said he'd never seen it....image.jpg
 
robertaccio said:
posted up earlier bike died in first test section (bizarre ).
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Mike brought bike by on way home. Said was running great and just shut off.
Bizarre is an understatement.
Pull plug big fat blue spark (like too good) like old points ign style big and fat.
Swapped all ign components gen,ecu, coil,spark plug no go.
Mike along with couple sweep riders checked the jets all good in Baja.
Put gas down plug hole still nothing.
Did dif comp check today 100/98 perfect.
Figured check carb again pulled return cable off normal, when removing pull cable it snapped back, Throttle shaft moved to the RH side sticking out.
Removed top of carb the screw that holds the throttle shaft had come out, sitting on top of slide. No trace of loctite on screw.
Have never seen this happen before so learned something new today. Will start checking as never had to before.
Fired right up runs great.
Later George
 
wow super bizarre especially from an FCR, those things are pretty much bullet proof in every manner of assembly and set up!!!
PS I have removed that screw while doing a full disassembly and clean up on my TXC450 41mm Keihin FCR, I could swear the OEM did have thread lock on it and I most certainly locktited it. 1st time for all things mechanical, one time means it can happen again!! Sorry for the DNF and not even a chance to ride to hour out.
 
Those old school carbed bikes are so unreliable ha ha ha

glangston said:
Hard to believe that screw would vibrate loose. George said he'd never seen it....
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Once a screw becomes even slightly loose vibrations will make it come all the way out. Seen this many times, main jets in the bottom of the bowl etc. My TE570 paint shaker needed attention about every 4 ride because the bolts were backing out due to vibration regardless of what you put on them. The thing was like a massive impact wrench. :) That bike would also sometimes (2x) cough and spit the carb right out of the intake boot! Was a great bike, huge power just have to like a good massage as you ride.
 
Motosportz said:
Do a 165 husky, much more forgiving than the 144 IMHO. The 144's can have quite a hit where the 165 can be very linear and easy to use.

Nice effort and what a cool first race!!!
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Thanks! I am running a Lectron on the 200 as well--it's pretty amazing. I have the 200's power valve set up for a pretty good hit, but I've not ridden a 144 so I can't say whether it's the same.

That race was definitely one of my best days on 2 wheels ever, and I've done some pretty cool stuff on bicycles & motorcycles. I'm not sure I'd enjoy a HS as much, though--being spaced out is what made it so enjoyable. The idea of fighting bar-to-bar with guys for the first turn just makes me frightened & doesn't sound fun.
 
Subject follow on. In addition to normal moto vibe frequencies this is a loaded/working screw subject to fore and aft loading while operating the throttle.
 
climberevan said:
Thanks! I am running a Lectron on the 200 as well--it's pretty amazing. I have the 200's power valve set up for a pretty good hit, but I've not ridden a 144 so I can't say whether it's the same.

That race was definitely one of my best days on 2 wheels ever, and I've done some pretty cool stuff on bicycles & motorcycles. I'm not sure I'd enjoy a HS as much, though--being spaced out is what made it so enjoyable. The idea of fighting bar-to-bar with guys for the first turn just makes me frightened & doesn't sound fun.
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Evan F good on ya race number 61 vet class 16th oa 67 FIRST RACE!!! (2 spots behind me OA.......I expect you to beat this old guy next time for your 2nd race****************************************)

Evan, I fully agree here however you play your way, so many guys get all hyped at the HS and do battle out the gate, not thinking that they need to go hard/carefully for @3 hours. I always play my cards easy and avoid confrontations at the beginning, then settle in and start passing guys that have worn themselves out getting all hyper at the start!! Not saying don't get a good start just get a clean start, a few years back I found myself having the holeshot, I freaked out but just settled in and rode my own pace, helped me avoid bottle necks until I caught up to the row in front that left before us. Plan on coming back down for the '15 HS you will also have a blast!! The blast just doesn't last as long (the beat down is shorter) unless you Ironman it and race the Sportsman short course event then the Pro long course, that's good for about 5 hours of fun. Last year I that was @5 laps of the short course and 2 of the long course.
 
Thanks George!

Anyone driving from SoCal to NorCal with room for a Beta 450? I will pay your gas, buy you lunch.

Second big congrats to all the finishers. Thanks to the lady on the KTM for checking on me trail side. Thanks for all the great vid posts.
 
"anyone driving to nor cal"?

I could bring it to Mammoth right after Christmas... 27th or so..will be there thru new years.

Maybe meet you in Reno if weather cooperates. Let me know.
 
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