Baja: Tropic of Cancer

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Baja: The Tropic of Cancer - Prelude

Armed with two Honda Varaderos, which in Canada are being marketed as Adventure bikes. So the destination? Mexico's Baja, because that should be adventurous enough to test these bikes mettle.

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The guys from OneWheelDrive.Net have made it across the boarder, so what's the first stop in the town of Tijuana that CNN has dubbed a "warzone"? Lunch of course.

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Mike's Sky Ranch is a mecca of motorsport, a stop point on the Baja 1000 and a hangout with one challenging driveway. While it seems like ours are the first Honda Varadero's to reach Mike's, the question remains will they make it back out when a bent rim brings us to a halt? Which begs the next question, "Is this repairable?"

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The idillic town of San Filipe located on the shore of the Sea of Cortez in the Northern Baja is transformed when the races come to town. As a production note we had some camera trouble, which saw us use more photos than previous videos. It gives things a very photo-essay feel. Not bad, just different.

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Thirty kms of grinding dirt, front-end stepping-out rock and battering washboard from the pavement's end, about 50kms south of Puertecitos lies Gonzega. A gem of the Baja sitting on the Sea of Cortez.

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"You're not a motorcyclist until you've been to Coco's Corner.", or so goes the Baja saying. Battering the Varaderos over 40kms of spaghetti western washboard, gravel, sand, canyons, and cactus forests brings us to Cocos to find out how a corner wound up on world maps.

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In the series finale Neil and Kevin of http://OneWheelDrive.net reach the Tropic of Cancer and some conclusions about the Honda Varadero as an Adventure motorcycle.

[Mr_McBride]

+1

Great ride report. Excellent camera work. I'd really like to see more like this, except for the advertisements. -1

[zarly]

Reviving an old thread here.

So here's a question - can you fix a flat with a bent rim, like in the video, with a tube?  I heard it mentioned, but can it be done and would that fix it in a pinch?  Curious me wants to know. Just in case...

ZDW.

[zarly]

I am going to complete the White Rim Trail in Moab next summer on this bike.  Third time's a charm they say.  

[Shizoku]

WOW!  Awesome trip.  
Brought back memories of my trip, a few years back, with a buddy to San Felipe via Rosarito, Tijuana, and Ensenada.
Thanks for posting!  

[ABADV]

Great RR! Thanks for sharing.

[sagerat]

That was great; thanks for posting.

"She's not that good in the sand; it sinks like the Bismark."

and

"The GSA is not exactly a ballerina"

were hilarious.

[Mac]

Reviving an old thread here.

So here's a question - can you fix a flat with a bent rim, like in the video, with a tube?  I heard it mentioned, but can it be done and would that fix it in a pinch?  Curious me wants to know. Just in case...

ZDW.

Just don't pinch the tube.