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05/252020

Baja Dirt Bike Riding in the 1970’s: Fill ‘er up!

Baja Dirt Bike Riding in the 1970’s: Fill ‘er up!

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

My friend and excellent dirt bike rider, Alan Dietor, and I began riding in Baja in 1974 when the roads

11/062018

Multi-Surface Motorcycling Reaffirmed

Multi-Surface Motorcycling Reaffirmed

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

When I coined the phrase Multi-Surface Motorcycles years ago, I didn’t expect it to catch on like

09/302017

Baja Travails

Baja Travails

By: Todd In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

From the editor (Pat Rose): As I’ve been looking through Elden’s archives on motorcycles

09/282017

Rake and Trail: You Better Get It Right!

Rake and Trail: You Better Get It Right!

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

A few weeks ago while riding on a remote Cleveland National Forest road, I came upon a guy standing next

01/242017

Pauline’s 89th Birthday Ride to Cabo

Pauline’s 89th Birthday Ride to Cabo

By: Todd In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

This ride took place earlier in 2016 but we didn’t want to post it until we had the final product

04/102016

LED Tail Light Failure

LED Tail Light Failure

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

I ride my motorcycle down to Mexico almost once a week. Besides being an enjoyable ride, it gives me

04/102016

More on Knobby Shod Sports-Tourers

More on Knobby Shod Sports-Tourers

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

In November 2015 Mike Henshaw and I took a ride to Baja with an overnight stay at Maria Navarro’s

03/062016

“Slime” Failure

“Slime” Failure

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

Over the past 60 years and over a million miles of motorcycle riding, I can only remember suffering a

03/062016

Old Folks Off-Road Technique

Old Folks Off-Road Technique

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

  (Editor’s Note – I haven’t ridden a motorcycle for over a year now due to personal

01/122016

Two Rides to Mike’s Sky Ranch

Two Rides to Mike’s Sky Ranch

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

Back in the last decade of the 20th century I took Bob Kornafel on what was to be a Baja pavement ride

11/182015

Rake and Trail Numbers Do Matter

Rake and Trail Numbers Do Matter

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

  I get kidded a lot because of my obsession with rake and trail settings on modern motorcycles:

09/082015

What? Another Chain Master

What? Another Chain Master

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

Back in the last century I purchased my first KLR650 in the spring of 1990 with the intention of developing

06/012015

Terms Do Matter

Terms Do Matter

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

I’ve coined two phrases relating to motorcycles, neither of which I expected to catch on. The first

01/012015

Mexiphobia

Mexiphobia

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

My two favorite hangouts happen to be south of the international border, which is located 20 miles from

11/022014

It’s a Small World

It’s a Small World

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

It Is Indeed a Small World. The other day I took off on one of my short mountain loops of about 50 miles.

10/012014

Modern Baja: Different But Still Lots of Fun

Modern Baja: Different But Still Lots of Fun

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

When the best all around dirt rider I ever knew, Alan Dietor, and I began riding in Baja Norte in 1974,

07/012014

Motorcycle Oil Consumption

Motorcycle Oil Consumption

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

Back in 2008 Top Gun Motorcycles purchased a new Kawasaki KLR650-E model which turned out to be a lemon. 

06/092014

Top Gun’s New Custom Spring For The DR650SE

Top Gun’s New Custom Spring For The DR650SE

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

Glossary MSM – Multisurface Motorcycles/Motorcyclist MMP – Multisurface Motorcycle Products

04/022014

KLR Rear Suspension and Chain Control

KLR Rear Suspension and Chain Control

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

As I sit here in my favorite Subway restaurant (#40249) at the corner of Avocado Ave. and Hwy 94, my

03/012014

More on Final Gearing

More on Final Gearing

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

Every two or three weeks I ride down to Ensenada and stay overnite at Hostel Sauzal at 344 “L” Street

02/272014

Stay “SPOT” On, All the Time

Stay “SPOT” On, All the Time

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

I’ve pretty much avoided the electronic age I have only two modern instruments of communication; a

02/152014

Product Highlight – Top Gun KLR650 Chainmaster

Product Highlight – Top Gun KLR650 Chainmaster

By: Todd In: Contact Patch No Comment

KLR-650 Chain Master Upper Chain Run Control Device* (*Engineered using a stock KLR-650 with properly

02/012014

Air Filtration

Air Filtration

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

Some guy on one of the Internet sites wrote recently that I had been riding off road bikes since before

12/172013

Two–Stroking Around the World

Two–Stroking Around the World

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

Long after I thought two-stroke motorcycles were extinct I ran into Paul Suchy at Santispak 10 miles

11/012013

Racing Rod’s Rod

Racing Rod’s Rod

By: Elden In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

  Rod Morris and I recently did our first two day Baja loop since rebuilding and breaking in both

07/012013

Mileage! Smileage!

Mileage! Smileage!

By: Elden In: Technical Insights No Comment

For years I’ve carried in my wallet a small laminated 50 word paragraph from an article written by

05/012013

Suspension Matters

Suspension Matters

By: Rod In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

Assuming your multisurface motorcycle weighs not much more than four hundred pounds, has reliable electronics

03/012013

Running Into and Over “Cuco”

Running Into and Over “Cuco”

By: Rod In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

If you’ve ridden KLR’s for very long or own a copy of Clemente Salvadori’s book, Motorcycle Journeys

02/012013

KLR Engine Top End Failure

KLR Engine Top End Failure

By: Rod In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

I recently had a customer call about getting a new piston for his 2007 KLR650. During the discussion

10/012012

DR650 Gas Filter

DR650 Gas Filter

By: Rod In: Fuel for Thought No Comment

We covered this subject some time ago but it’s time to mention it again.   Elden and I had gone

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