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One man's journey, racing the Baja 1000...pro moto Ironman. Bad ideas = good stories! Racing is life multiplied by a number that no one has ever heard of.

02/10/2026

Racing in Baja is a privilege, and we should always be aware of that and take the opportunity to keep our youngest fans stoked to see a bunch of guys on motos. Who knows, one day they may be our fiercest competitors in racing! Bring the , bring the smiles, bring the memories!

Lally Singh
Forest
Patrick Finn
Kyle McCoy
Mason Klein
Mason Klein
High Desert Adventures
ICO RACING
BAJA RALLY
Champ ADV

30/09/2026

Donni Reddington spotted being awesome, Hotel Mision Santa Maria in Cataviña. I'll never forget meeting Donni at 2016 when I returned to tech inspection and found a sticker on my KTM 950SE and this crazy, totally random photographer chick telling me to get pics with the trophy girls. 😂😂

Then there was the time you and Kyra Sacdalan of WESTx1000 introduced my 18 year old daughter to on margaritas on her first Baja rip! 😂

Gone way too soon. Love and miss you Red, you were a one-of-a-kind rad chick and the world is a little less bright without you.

24/09/2026

Roadtrip! I'm not really a road rider. I generally just don't find it all that interesting. I haven't done a serious road trip in 10 years on a bike. Part of this is because I focused exclusively on dirt with the kids. The other part is when I get bored, stupid things happen. Like felonies, according to what I've read of the law in some states. 😅 And a lot of road riding is just freaking boring. If I have to load up podcasts or audio books, my attention is not fully on the ride. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's not a good thing for me & my wallet & my criminal record (alleged).

But when my buddy Ace Nilson asked if I wanted to this 2003 from Salt Lake City down to his place outside LA, I said what the hell. I've been up to my eyeballs building the air cooled bikes for the Starvation Ridge 24hr race, so basically the day before, I took a chance and had chatGPT build me an itinerary that lasted 2.5 days and 2 nights. Surprisingly, it did really really well.

The scenery was so good, I basically quit taking photos because they always turn out "meh" compared to real life. Can confirm, UT-12 from Torrey to Escalante to Bryce, then westward via ZionNP is some of the prettiest scenery around.

As with any of my Moto adventures, there were some challenges along the way. The right fork seal failed and sent so much fork oil all over me and the back side of the windshield and the side of the bike that I stopped at gas stations and wrapped the fork leg with paper towels to prevent oil getting down onto the brake rotors. I clicked over 40,000 miles just after crossing the California border at Primm, almost lost a footpeg because the clip disappeared on the pin, scraped a little bit of corrosion off the bottom of the pegs (allegedly), and marveled at the modern conveniences of heated seat & grips, cruise control & adjustable windshield.

If you are a Beemerista you'll hate me for saying it, but the bike is kind of uninspiring. Doesn't feel like it has a lot of character. But it goes fast and it stops fast and it started every time I needed it to, so that's pretty good compared to some of my other bikes!

22/09/2026

! 1984 Honda runs again! And with that, all three bikes of the air-cooled Fleet are now ready for the 25 hour race on halloween! Also racing are the 1998 XR400EX (estart) and 1986 xr600!

There's some small stuff and some tuning, and I'll never be quite satisfied with where they're at, but they are pretty darn close to being race ready for what we're doing. Three bikes, three teams of up to six riders a piece, and the bike runs for 25 hours plus one lap. The conditions can be straight up amazing at 70° and sunny, or they could be absolutely miserable at 18° with hail and snow and mud. You really never know what you're going to get into until you show up.

Special thanks to Carl Englund for that external starter!

21/09/2026

1984 Honda CR500R. This goddamn thing. Lubed cku4cu cabl3 and corrected the pickup gap last night...then no spark. Whaaat??? If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

This is the joy of frankensteining these things. The values can be all over the damn place. 1996 CR250 flywheel and stater, 1996 analog CR125 CDI for a hard ignition advance that makes it a solid bastard to start cold but run amazing. Unknown year of later Honda coil. Values all seem to test within norms, though I want a better coil in there. I don't have one on hand at the moment that physically fits. (0.7ohm and 18k are high. Would like 0.5 and 12-13k)

I pulled this limiting plate on the stator backing plate, to clock the stator a couple degrees CCW and reduce the advance / re**rd the spark slightly. Think I got that right. Should hopefully make for easier starting and no secret reverse gear.... assuming we find where the spark ran away to.

20/09/2026

1986 Honda lives! Finally!! Many, many stumbles getting here. Bad gas, a bad ground, an exhaust leak, the tank valve is maybe backwards and only runs on reserve when the tank isn't very full but i had it pointed to ON, not enough throttle freeplay, way too lean, idle adjusted too low...one thing after another! Well, narrowed down to an off-idle lean bog (buuuWAAAAAHHHH!) and some suspension preload. Almost starting to feel confident!

Oh, and everyone loves The Piddler...so there his goofy ass is, doing Piddler stuff. Go figure, it's the incredibly smart dog who almost gets run over here. Dammit Beek!

19/09/2026

Looking at junk. Thinking about art.

It's crazy to consider how expensive this stuff is new ($800 for a connecting rod and crank bearings?!), and here it is in a box of trash with some miscellaneous memories attached. Probably a metaphor for life right there.

17/09/2026

Love giving a shout-out to a company with great customer service.

G2 Ergonomics makes the throttle tamer and is the sole importer of Domino throttles. Adam on their tech support line had great answers when I called today with a story that gets more and more familiar the more and more I tell it. "I'm stupid. I make stuff needlessly complex because I have a condition that requires me to tinker when I don't like the performance of the original equipment."

Bear with me here...it's a 1986 Honda XR600 R, with the old PH52AC dual carb, and I'm using a Domino throttle I found in my parts bin, which I think is for an older KTM 2-stroke, to do a single cable conversion, and I have an ODI lock-on grip with the C-cam mounted in it because the D-cam didn't give me any freeplay on the OEM replacement pull-cable from Motion Pro. But I'm only getting 60deg of travel before the carb goes from lock to lock, and I think that's going to be a tad too aggressive for controlling that thing in a mud race.

Next thing you know, Adam is walking me through which Domino throttle I have (4st vs HR Cross), recommended cams, grip discussion, and explaining that even if I don't see the individual components on the website, he can set up the order. Like I don't want to pay for whatever cable comes with the package I need.

Very cool experience. Going to test the bike more and then decide which direction to go. It's good. But I think it could be better for the Starvation Ridge 24hr race "Beers & Bad Idears" air-cooled challenge team!!

https://www.g2ergo.com/product-category/dirt-bikes/

https://dominoracing.com/product-category/off-road/throttles-off-road/

14/09/2026

It's aliiiiive! 1986 xr600r resurrection update!

Next up truenorthmotos wiring harness help for this Cyclops Adventure Sports LED H1 bulb replacement in the Trail Tech 8" light and TC Bros. capacitor to keep this DC smoooove like a freshly shorn sc***um (I suggest you try it )

So why was this such a giant pain in the ass when it's a simple bike?? Well when you have multiple simple problems, they turn into a rather complex problem. I installed an RM stator replacement and the wiring diagram was not terrifically clear. So I found myself with a floating circuit "ground" wire attached to chassis ground, which collapses the electric field for the coil driving the Exciter and confuses the cdi. (Or so I've Been Told) Like crossing the streams with Ghostbuster Proton packs, this is baaad.

Before I found that, I'd ripped the cylinder head cover off to check the timing again, and pulled the clutch cover off to verify the pulse generator timing and pickup gap, which was way too tight. Oh and I swapped cdis with a spare trx400ex I had on hand. No dice

Next, I got the bike to cough but it would not start. In a fit of frustration I even got my wife to tow me up and down the road behind the house and could not get it to start. I started noticing that it smelled funny, so I decided to drain the carburetor in preparation for looking at jetting. Water and crap came out. Well, at some point, the 5-gallon jug that I used to fill my hang tank had become contaminated with water. When I poured the last gallon out it was all hazy and stinky. This is really weird because a month ago I used it to fill the 950 adventure and the bike ran great. Full of water this time. I don't know some local teenager decided to help himself to gas and then refill the jug so I wouldn't notice, like we used to do as kids with dad's wh***ey?

Sure enough though, once I blew the cylinder dry and swapped out the plug the bike started. Now it runs hot, and it's time to start doing wiring housekeeping and a little bit of jetting & tuning

24/05/2026

Oh hell yes, billet float bowl work of art fits the Air Striker on the 2019 KTM . Juuuust barely. I might inquire on a drain screw thats 5/8" shorter and sits flush, as it just brushes the case saver. Beautiful piece! Almost hate to dirty it up!

For me, this is not intended as a permanent install but as a tool for quick tuning on projects. Pilot and main swap out from the side in under a minute with very little fuel spilled. If it'll fit, it'll go on the 1984 next once the 3hunny is dialed.

Thanks to Dave and the team for some very functional bling!

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