I took the bike to a second mechanic – an authorized Kawasaki one to be sure about the state of the engine after running out of oil upon arrival in Puerto Vallarta. He revved the engine for a few minutes and then told me it would require adjusting the valve clearance which would stop the [...]
Update: Rolled the bike without starting it down the steep hill to the mechanic a few blocks away. He turned it on, revved it, asked me how often I drive it and then said that the bike’s engine was likely fine but that the engine valves needed to be replaced which is causing the ticking [...]
Having left the Sierra‘s and the excitement there I have been finding the careful drivers on paved roads in the coastal plain somewhat tame. I drove to the coast at Mazatlan yesterday and hardly took any photos. I did however catch my first glimpse of the Pacific en route and felt a small sense of [...]
After the gearshift soldering by the fellows on the river in Urique I packed up all my still half-wet gear and left the elderly hippy American’s hostel and made for El Fuerte, Sinaloa, MX. All was going swimmingly as I crested the canyon with great confidence and no small sense of satisfaction that I had [...]
Having fallen asleep at 8pm in Batopilas I woke early to the usual Mexican small town sounds of rooters crowing and dogs barking. So I sat in the main square and watched the old woman sweeping the square and men opening the shutters on their businesses. I had been told of the shortcut (6 instead [...]
The usual struggle to get my bike out of the locked parking lot ensued this morning with the hotel in Creel. I was a bit desperate to get on my way, wary of the long drive to Batopilas at the bottom of a canyon which I knew took at least 5 hours and included one [...]
After stagnating for three days in the hotel trying to get some work done I left this afternoon driving south from Creel, Chihuahua. The first destination was about 3kms south followed by 2kms of dirt road of vary degrees of roughness. The road passes through a valley inhabited by the indigenous Rarámuri and eventually leads [...]
I woke up before dawn in Presidio at the overpriced hotel (3 Palms Inn) with the intention of making it to the border before anyone else got there and before the narcos I’ld been paranoid about arrived to stake things out. While packing my bike in the freezing cold I met a nice American-English older [...]
The bike was picked up and taken back to Houston after the second flat tire. A nail was discovered this time which likely caused both flats. I drove past San Antonio and about 3 hours into the night towards Del Rio, TX, on the border with Mexico. I had been told “You couldn’t pay me [...]
Unable to handle the India Hostel zoo in New Orleans anymore I drove along the state highways through the bayou’s west of the city. Nothing was too interesting, a lot of sugarcane plantations and one old plantation owner’s house that looked shuttered and in disrepair. Getting bored I got on the Interstate 10 and drove [...]
Things Said
September 15, 2011 (7:14) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires I'm working detals for a US to Buenos Aires ride on a KLR. Considering the cost of getting the b...
August 23, 2011 (3:43) Near the rich and amongst the expats of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico Heck of a job there, it abseolutly helps me out.
August 20, 2011 (12:14) Near the rich and amongst the expats of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico @ZayaBee Definitely the American an individual.