Baja Dirt Bike Riding in the 1970’s: Fill ‘er up!
My friend and excellent dirt bike rider, Alan Dietor, and I began riding in Baja in 1974 when the roads
My friend and excellent dirt bike rider, Alan Dietor, and I began riding in Baja in 1974 when the roads
When I coined the phrase Multi-Surface Motorcycles years ago, I didn’t expect it to catch on like
From the editor (Pat Rose): As I’ve been looking through Elden’s archives on motorcycles
A few weeks ago while riding on a remote Cleveland National Forest road, I came upon a guy standing next
This ride took place earlier in 2016 but we didn’t want to post it until we had the final product
I ride my motorcycle down to Mexico almost once a week. Besides being an enjoyable ride, it gives me
In November 2015 Mike Henshaw and I took a ride to Baja with an overnight stay at Maria Navarro’s
Over the past 60 years and over a million miles of motorcycle riding, I can only remember suffering a
(Editor’s Note – I haven’t ridden a motorcycle for over a year now due to personal
Back in the last decade of the 20th century I took Bob Kornafel on what was to be a Baja pavement ride
I get kidded a lot because of my obsession with rake and trail settings on modern motorcycles:
Back in the last century I purchased my first KLR650 in the spring of 1990 with the intention of developing
I’ve coined two phrases relating to motorcycles, neither of which I expected to catch on. The first
My two favorite hangouts happen to be south of the international border, which is located 20 miles from
It Is Indeed a Small World. The other day I took off on one of my short mountain loops of about 50 miles.
When the best all around dirt rider I ever knew, Alan Dietor, and I began riding in Baja Norte in 1974,
Back in 2008 Top Gun Motorcycles purchased a new Kawasaki KLR650-E model which turned out to be a lemon.
Glossary MSM – Multisurface Motorcycles/Motorcyclist MMP – Multisurface Motorcycle Products
As I sit here in my favorite Subway restaurant (#40249) at the corner of Avocado Ave. and Hwy 94, my
Every two or three weeks I ride down to Ensenada and stay overnite at Hostel Sauzal at 344 “L” Street
I’ve pretty much avoided the electronic age I have only two modern instruments of communication; a
KLR-650 Chain Master Upper Chain Run Control Device* (*Engineered using a stock KLR-650 with properly
Some guy on one of the Internet sites wrote recently that I had been riding off road bikes since before
Long after I thought two-stroke motorcycles were extinct I ran into Paul Suchy at Santispak 10 miles
Rod Morris and I recently did our first two day Baja loop since rebuilding and breaking in both
For years I’ve carried in my wallet a small laminated 50 word paragraph from an article written by
Assuming your multisurface motorcycle weighs not much more than four hundred pounds, has reliable electronics
If you’ve ridden KLR’s for very long or own a copy of Clemente Salvadori’s book, Motorcycle Journeys
I recently had a customer call about getting a new piston for his 2007 KLR650. During the discussion
We covered this subject some time ago but it’s time to mention it again. Elden and I had gone
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