HadesOmega's BARF Baja 2016 Ride Report

[HadesOmega]

BARF Baja 2016 Day 4 Part 3 - Rocky Road to Comondu 2016
https://youtu.be/6D48bcVFlF8

BARF Baja 2016 Day 3 Part4 - Super Rocky Hillclimb Action!
https://youtu.be/lk29bMIyBa0

BARF Baja 2016 Day 4 Part 5 - Highspeed Scramble to Comondu!
https://youtu.be/TKX6L-Ig7vs

BARF Baja 2016 Day 4 Part 6 - Baja DANGER LEVEL UP!
https://youtu.be/avPlma0fPFs

 

[1962siia]

Merlin solid progress on the ride report! You may actually finish this thing before we go back!!

Looking forward to day 5 videos!! Hope you got the silt rut train wreck on video!!

 

[HadesOmega]

Oh yeah I got it cloud of dust smokescreen!

 

[HadesOmega]

DAY 5 - Scorpion Bay to San Ignacio
So GreenHornet was able to make it to Scorpion Bay via a man and a pick up truck late last night. I Camped at the beach with Dmitry and OaklandF4i and GreenHornet when he arrived. It was COLD, almost regretting that I had taken the smaller sleeping bag now. But nonetheless the camping was epic. Getting to camp under the stars on the beach and wake up to the sunrise is EPIC! I tried to take a bunch of picture of the sunrise. Be sure to check the video out I arrange all the picture I took into a sequence during sunrise.

So everyone comes down to the beach to visit us. It was a great day nice weather not all cloudy like last year. And it's time for another BEACH RIDE!!!

Silhouetted!

It was definitely nice to have a fire.

Panoramics

Camping under the moonlight

Beach right before sunrise.

Getting brighter

Fishing boats hard at work

Look at the sky its on fire!

 

[HadesOmega]

Here's where we camped

Eagles soar over us in the sky.

The beach!

Birds hanging out on that rock

More light

Bubbles

Than Sun has shown itself

So bright now!

Everyones here someone must've been using my camera.

 

[HadesOmega]

While everyone is here we take a group picture. The only one missing was LunchBox because his bike had blown up in Mulege.

And from a better angle.

Little doggie and Dmitry's 690

The sun has risen

Breakfast with a view

Lemonade and a Mexican Omelette good way to start a day!

 

[HadesOmega]

So here we are HadesOmega Beach Cruise 2016! So as you know last year I kinda had a "run in" with a bird at the beach so I was trying to not mess with the wildlife this time!

Took a little cruise on the beach that's all. I tried to do a high speed run but I saw a bird and backed off haha. So this here is a kinda shark structure. I notice it is made of fiberglass I wonder what the story of this is? It was there last year too.

Mr. Storkie is here!

Beach pictures!

 

[HadesOmega]

DONUTS!

 

[HadesOmega]

BARF Baja 2016 Day 5 Part 1 - Scorpion Bay Cruise
https://youtu.be/qFlLgeDRUTg

 

[HadesOmega]

So after the morning shenanigans it was time to get underway. We split up into separate groups. The group I was in was OaklandF4i, Impish9090, 1962siia88, EricB, and Dmitry. The route was the same as last year. We were going to head north to the coast on a kind of graded dirt road. We'd stop at a fishing village along the way then follow the coastline for a while. Then ride through some MAJOR sandy sections and more dirt highways eventually emerging on the tarmac and head to San Ignacio.

The hotel where everyone stayed at everyone getting ready to party.

A mailbox in the middle of the desert!

So I was riding along and one thing about today is its WARM and because of that its DUSTY! So I'm anyway I'm riding along and poof it's a brown out I can't see anything. We had hit a deep patch of silt and everyone in front of me went down like dominos. Luckily I had slowed down and stopped before I plowed anyway and alerted everyone else to slow down and stop. If you watch the video I'm looking into a cloud of smoke, I looked back for a few second and turn my head straight again and you see everyone's bikes at naptime. Lasty year we didn't have to worry about dust or silt so much because it actually was raining a bit. =/

 

[HadesOmega]

BARF Baja 2016 Day 5 Part 2 - Dirty Highway
https://youtu.be/vYSYfA0LCQo

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[HadesOmega]

The next section was one of my favorite last year but I had a bad crash so after a little too much excitement I decide to slow down. This next section was a combination of deep sand and sand flats. Sand flats that turn into mud when it rains. The Shinko 805s are not doing so hot on this stuff from what I've noticed. To make things worse there are pockets of soft sand when you hit them you sink in and loose traction.

BARF Baja Day 5 Part 3 - Sand and Flats on the Return
https://youtu.be/06MEF4BdnJM

 

[1962siia]

Go Merlin! Looking forward to the next video!! I love that you got me with the clown music trying to start my bike!! At that point in the trip I had a golf ball sized lump on my shin from bashing my leg into the right peg every time I started the bike. I was not giving it the necessary gusto because my shin hurt. I'm hoping to find a solution to this issue for this trip because it took several months for that lump to go down.

Great work getting this report done!!

 

[HadesOmega]

Ouch yeah haha I was watching the video and you were there kicking forever. I didn't even remember it I just caught it on video haha. But yeah my first DR650 was a kickstart and I remember the misery of having to kick that bike when your tired from picking it up and in an awkward place.

 

[HadesOmega]

More of the same terrain flats and sandy sections. Then we arrive at a fishing village. We were greeted by the children and hooked them up with some moto stickers.

We are around the beginning of the water section in this map

Nice day to go fishing!

This kid was funny

Siesta time

So I was walking around and saw this contraption. They're using an old wheel as a stove!

Lots of seafood about

Seagulls everywhere

 

[HadesOmega]

The road ahead was more of the same flat hard packed stuff and occasional sand. But this time there was DEEP sand, the kind that likes to make the bike wander everywhere.

Now to keep the DR stable on this stuff I need to be going like 30-50 mph, 30+ I guess. So I'm riding along and the bike is rocking all over the place, its like the most nervous feeling in the world surfing the bike over this shit. Almost feels like splitting lanes. Then 1962siia88 is like 30feet in front of me and he SUDDENLY stops and I come so close to creaming him. I managed to get the bike to veer to the right seconds before, if not I'd have hit him.
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The rest of the ride was more of the same dirt goodness. Then we got to a kinda graded road and we could really let it rip. In this video I'm going like 53MPH already and Dmity blows right past me.
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At the end of the straight we stopped to regroup. Look at all these tiny little desert flowers! It's like we're on a another planet.

You see lots of seashells around here

KTM rocket

 

[HadesOmega]

Nothing too exciting the rest of the way. More highspeed dirt riding. OaklandF4i gets bored and decides to ride the side road to spice it up a bit. You'll see this in the VLOG. Then we get to the section where there is a kinda salty wetlands with a very hard packed and whoopy road. After that it's the pavement and some twisties to our home for the night San Ignacio.

We stop by the center of town for some lunch and meet up with the rest of the crew.

Mision de San Ignacio

There was this cool ice cream stuff loaded with Baja racing goodies =)

Town Center

 

[HadesOmega]

After lunch we headed to Rice and Beans where we stopped on the way to Mulege for lunch. This is where we were staying tonight. We ran into these two riders I think from Canada. One of them was riding a Honda Varadero, an adventure bike that Honda never released in the US. Kinda reminds me of the Honda Transalp. Imagine riding these beasts around here.

Checked into our rooms for the night time for some bike maintenance

I look the Cactus Puncher over and everything looks ok, its REALLY dirty the way it should be!

So I don't think the boots dried the last couple days or riding and watercrossings so my feet are starting to look really pruney starting to get painful also. On the flip flops go!

Air filter maintenance, that filter sock is done! This is 5 days in Baja. Time to switch it out and feel the power!

If I think about it I shouldn't had even of changed the sock I should have just ran it naked because the next day was the last day of riding.

 

[HadesOmega]

Yummy BBQ dinner

Hey little buddy we meet again

Day 5 Trip Stats so far

DAY 5 END

 

[HadesOmega]

BARF Baja 2016 Day 5 Part 4 - Flats and Sand Surfing!
https://youtu.be/NJZRXJ_AUwo

BARF Baja 2016 Day 5 Part 5 - To San Ignacio Por Favor!
https://youtu.be/ZcmbogzFhPU