I think it's "gal." See post #4.
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Riding down to Mexico in april
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I think it's "gal." See post #4.
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Awesome! You're going to have a great time in Mexico!
We thought we'd ride through most of it in 1 month, we ended up staying for 3 months and still didn't get to see close to everything. We left the country very reluctantly due to a time crunch.
The people are super-friendly, everyone greets each passing by on the street, even strangers, and the food is very good (just not very good for your waistline).
Make sure you obtain a tourist visa for yourself at the border, as well as a TVIP for your motorcycle. The process is not very clear and a lot of people forget and get in trouble when their documents are checked.
Are you riding Baja or the mainland? If you're going on your Busa, then you have to ride the Espinaza Del Diablo (Devil's backbone) otherwise known as the Road of 3,000 curves! Very entertaining! :twisted:
We thought we'd ride through most of it in 1 month, we ended up staying for 3 months and still didn't get to see close to everything. We left the country very reluctantly due to a time crunch.
The people are super-friendly, everyone greets each passing by on the street, even strangers, and the food is very good (just not very good for your waistline).
Make sure you obtain a tourist visa for yourself at the border, as well as a TVIP for your motorcycle. The process is not very clear and a lot of people forget and get in trouble when their documents are checked.
Are you riding Baja or the mainland? If you're going on your Busa, then you have to ride the Espinaza Del Diablo (Devil's backbone) otherwise known as the Road of 3,000 curves! Very entertaining! :twisted:
My bike insurer emphasized I would not be covered in Mexico under my policy.
I think you're nuts. Juan and Abe are from Mexico...lived there most of their lives, know their way around, know the language and the culture, have many relatives down there...... They are both intimidating looking dudes at 6'4" and 325 lbs......and they rode their Busas a month to, and around down there, and back again......and they said they will never go back there for a ride again. They said the corruption and danger was everywhere and they were never comfortable, and oa few times frightened.
A lone 125 lb lady in the same situation? Please re-think your destination.
A lone 125 lb lady in the same situation? Please re-think your destination.
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No worries, nothing is going to happen...until it does.
I have felt the horrible feeling of my life not being in my hands down there and that was by the police, I can just imagine anyone else.
I hate to be the negative one about traveling down south but I have gone through some stuff down there
www.thirdwheeltrailers.com
Juan and Abe live right here in Aylmer Ont....just outside of London...they engineered and built mine and many other trailers, and the test voyage of the design was a 1 month ride to and thru Mexico with a trailer behind each Busa that they own....the trip is detailed on their site. I have been on many tours witht them, and this is where they revealed to me their personal feelings on travel by bike in Mexico.
The reason I didn't get into detail as to who they were, is because Shnizzle is friends with Juan and Abe as well, as she once looked seriously into buying a third wheel trailer herself for her Busa.
Juan and Abe live right here in Aylmer Ont....just outside of London...they engineered and built mine and many other trailers, and the test voyage of the design was a 1 month ride to and thru Mexico with a trailer behind each Busa that they own....the trip is detailed on their site. I have been on many tours witht them, and this is where they revealed to me their personal feelings on travel by bike in Mexico.
The reason I didn't get into detail as to who they were, is because Shnizzle is friends with Juan and Abe as well, as she once looked seriously into buying a third wheel trailer herself for her Busa.
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Know a few friends from there. It's definitely a mixed bag, thanks to the government/cartels conflict. The usual hotspots (borders/ports) are spreading out as the problem continues. The Wall Street meltdown didn't do their economy any favours, either; the devil haunts a hungry man.
Take your precautions and go for it, I guess. Don't underestimate government travel advisories though. They have information and contacts none of us have access to.
Take your precautions and go for it, I guess. Don't underestimate government travel advisories though. They have information and contacts none of us have access to.
cleaver
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I haven't been to Mexico, but I've been planning a trip. This thread on Advrider is a great one: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=546927
Warning: there's 1300 pages!!!! you can skim through it, but you'll find first-hand reports and valuable advice for handling the inevitable snags.
My take on the thread: There's all sorts of fear-mongering in the media and even some Mexicans living in the States are now afraid. But the people who have recent first-hand experience all report it is a wonderful place to travel—full of amazing scenery and friendly people. You see people who start with the attitude of: "I want to find the fastest way through Mexico to get to Central America." For a lot of them, they end up spending more time in Mexico than their original destination. I can't wait to experience it for myself.
I'd pay attention to what Lightcycle wrote above... he's toured there (and has an excellent blog and a thread on this site).
One little tidbit I pulled from the monster Advrider thread: http://howsafeismexico.com/ (Some statistics to get you started in assessing the risk.)
Warning: there's 1300 pages!!!! you can skim through it, but you'll find first-hand reports and valuable advice for handling the inevitable snags.
My take on the thread: There's all sorts of fear-mongering in the media and even some Mexicans living in the States are now afraid. But the people who have recent first-hand experience all report it is a wonderful place to travel—full of amazing scenery and friendly people. You see people who start with the attitude of: "I want to find the fastest way through Mexico to get to Central America." For a lot of them, they end up spending more time in Mexico than their original destination. I can't wait to experience it for myself.
I'd pay attention to what Lightcycle wrote above... he's toured there (and has an excellent blog and a thread on this site).
One little tidbit I pulled from the monster Advrider thread: http://howsafeismexico.com/ (Some statistics to get you started in assessing the risk.)
FLOWEN
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Good luck on your next adventure. It will be fun.
Wish I could do that trip also but am in the planning stages for a trip or 2 that are not quite as long but near. I have been designated leader again for at least 1 trip a couple weeks in length but trippin' alone sure does have its benefits.
Maybe do as I often do, which is do not go under approx. 1/2 a tank of gas (1/3 minimum) and you will be fine. Always have some in the tank for a little extra site seeing, getting lost or in case of needing to run away from unwelcome....
I once had to, shall we say, ride quickly to get away from a few Harleys who apparently did not like a stranger riding near them for only a couple miles. I had tagged onto the rear of a small group of bikes. They let me know I was not welcome. They had no patches or anything to identify them as other than just people riding bikes. Oh, they did have Quebec plates and we were in Vermont at the time. Near Smugglers Notch. True story. 2013.
Oh and I know, "How fast would one have to go to get away from Harleys?" No that fast but maybe they had guns and I was not hanging around to find out!
Wish I could do that trip also but am in the planning stages for a trip or 2 that are not quite as long but near. I have been designated leader again for at least 1 trip a couple weeks in length but trippin' alone sure does have its benefits.
Maybe do as I often do, which is do not go under approx. 1/2 a tank of gas (1/3 minimum) and you will be fine. Always have some in the tank for a little extra site seeing, getting lost or in case of needing to run away from unwelcome....
I once had to, shall we say, ride quickly to get away from a few Harleys who apparently did not like a stranger riding near them for only a couple miles. I had tagged onto the rear of a small group of bikes. They let me know I was not welcome. They had no patches or anything to identify them as other than just people riding bikes. Oh, they did have Quebec plates and we were in Vermont at the time. Near Smugglers Notch. True story. 2013.
Oh and I know, "How fast would one have to go to get away from Harleys?" No that fast but maybe they had guns and I was not hanging around to find out!
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DECIMIS
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Rider just went missing in Mexico:
A 32-year-old New York man who was travelling alone in Mexico on a 2002 Kawasaki KLR650 disappeared shortly after sending a text message on Jan. 25 to his girlfriend and has not been seen since.
Harry Devert was travelling alone, heading toward Zihuatanejo on the Pacific Ocean coast southwest of Mexico City, when he vanished. The text message to his girlfriend, Sarah Ashley Schiear, said, “Just got an hour and a half long escort out of some area it was too dangerous for me to be. Stopping for lunch and ... voila Internet. ... Gonna get back on the road soon. Apparently there's another military escort waiting for me in some other town... I'm running way late because of the crazy military stuff...hopefully get a chance to talk to you tonight when I (hopefully) finally arrive."
Schiear quoted the message and wrote about him on a “Help Find Harry” Facebook page: "Harry was on his way from J M's Butterfly B & B in Macheros (left at 10AM CT) to (we think) Zihuatanejo where he planned to visit the beach where the reunion scene took place at the end of the Shawshank Redemption."
She said there has been no activity on his bank card, and his cell phone is not working. Devert has French citizenship, so the French embassy and the American embassy are working on the case.
According to a story in the International Business Times, Devert was riding near the Michoacan state, where a drug cartel and anti-drug vigilantes are known to operate. One writer on the Facebook page speculates that he may have been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. “A well-placed friend of mine who has some connections has told me that kidnapping in Southern Mexico has increased dramatically over the last week or so (mainly police related),” the writer says.
(http://www.cyclecanadaweb.com/articles/23913/)
A 32-year-old New York man who was travelling alone in Mexico on a 2002 Kawasaki KLR650 disappeared shortly after sending a text message on Jan. 25 to his girlfriend and has not been seen since.
Harry Devert was travelling alone, heading toward Zihuatanejo on the Pacific Ocean coast southwest of Mexico City, when he vanished. The text message to his girlfriend, Sarah Ashley Schiear, said, “Just got an hour and a half long escort out of some area it was too dangerous for me to be. Stopping for lunch and ... voila Internet. ... Gonna get back on the road soon. Apparently there's another military escort waiting for me in some other town... I'm running way late because of the crazy military stuff...hopefully get a chance to talk to you tonight when I (hopefully) finally arrive."
Schiear quoted the message and wrote about him on a “Help Find Harry” Facebook page: "Harry was on his way from J M's Butterfly B & B in Macheros (left at 10AM CT) to (we think) Zihuatanejo where he planned to visit the beach where the reunion scene took place at the end of the Shawshank Redemption."
She said there has been no activity on his bank card, and his cell phone is not working. Devert has French citizenship, so the French embassy and the American embassy are working on the case.
According to a story in the International Business Times, Devert was riding near the Michoacan state, where a drug cartel and anti-drug vigilantes are known to operate. One writer on the Facebook page speculates that he may have been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. “A well-placed friend of mine who has some connections has told me that kidnapping in Southern Mexico has increased dramatically over the last week or so (mainly police related),” the writer says.
(http://www.cyclecanadaweb.com/articles/23913/)
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