BAJA 2010

We had another successful trip to Baja this year. We had 14 peoople in the group including the two side x sides that wanted to stay with us and not travel with the Quad Squad. Six of the fourteen in our group were first timers. They are the ones with the * by their name below. The list of participants was as follows:

*Ray Bates* - Bike

Stu Bringhurst - Bike

Matt Buckles - side by side

Charlie Bunker - side by side

Greg Bunker - Bike

Keith Bunker - Bike

*Dale Call* - Bike

Phillip Conk - Bike OUT OF ALMOST 1000 PICTURES THIS IS THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE PHILLIP BY HIMSELF---WITHOUT HIS HELMET ON!!!

*Chad Ellsworth* - Bike

Shane Haycock - Bike

*Dave Huntsman* - side by side

Rick Leavitt - Bike

*Steve Lee* - side by side

*John Manning* - Bike

The morning started off with a dead battery (Stu I put this in for your benefit)The border crossing wasn't too bad. They just hassled us a little bit, but a couple hats later and we were through.The drug sniffing dog was kind of a joke. he was afraid to go inside the trailer and wouldn't go in. He also tried to bite one of the border patrol guys.They're still working on the highway Finally. Made it to the El Cortez and got unloaded.

CALIENTE RIDE OCTOBER 2009

I am finally putting what few pictures we had of the ride up. The trip was great. I think we all had a great time and we definitely need to do it again. We ought to shoot for a ride in April or May depending on the weather. Any ways, here they are in no particular order.

By the way, we did 350 miles in 2 days. Not to bad for not knowing where we were going or what the terrain was like.




Gas Stop in Caliente

Phillip and Keith

Ryan, Greg, Rick and Cooper

Ryan and Rob

Shane

Shane, Greg and Rob

Million Dollar Courthouse in Pioche

Rob, Greg, Cooper

The bushes looked a little dry. Thought I'd water them.

The 2 Bobs

Rob you need to change your cologne brand from Musk of Mutton. Ryan is always sneaking up behind you. You know what they say about Wyoming....Where the men are men and the sheep know it!

Keith, Rick and Dustin









Shane, Rob and Punky

John, Scott, Phillip, Punky, Shane, Cooper, Greg and some guy in the back that wanted to be in our group











Phillip

Shane



Keith

Cooper waiting on the train

We need to try harder to take more pictures. It looks like we spent the whole time hanging out at the Branding Iron. At least Shanes camera did. For those of you that didn't hear, Shane lost his camera in front of the Brandin Iron the night we left to come home and it laid there in the gutter for at least two weeks until someone found it. It just happened to be Casey Folks, who puts on the Besst in the Desert races who found it. He recognized Shane and Robbie from the pictures and and contacted them that he had the camera

Link to Follow Vegas to Reno

Heres a link to follow Vegas to Reno.

Travis Pastrana - Red Bulls New Year No Limits 2009

Here's a link to a teaser of this years Red Bull New Years - No Limits!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOhoiOWJepQ

Finally a reality show that might be worth watching. Check out the website and the video. Looks pretty cool.

From their website:

"The Master of Baja is an adventure competition featuring dirt bike and action sports stars riding off road motorcycles between the US/Mexico border and Cabo San Lucas over 6/7 days that will feature riding and non-riding tests. 16 riders will be dropped at the border and will ride the entire peninsula of Baja together as a group all the while competing to keep their eligibility through tests.Tests will include epic versions of foot down, hill climbs, rocky obstacle course and wheelie contests on the beach to name a few. In all there are 16 proposed tests through out the days of riding to both take and give back eligibility to the competitors. Eligibility is key because there will be 6 or fewer riders that have it when we reach our destination and only one of the eligible riders will win the lions share of the $50,000.00 prize money. The trip will have a large crew that will live the journey down Baja including test set up, chase and TV film crews. The entire group of riders, film and support crew will cast their vote for the Master of Baja winner, they all will have lived for a week with each other and it should be clear who should be crowned Master of Baja."

Maybe next year we will have our own Master of BAJA.

Here is the link http://www.masterofbaja.com/index2.html

2009 Baja Pictures

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Baja 2009 Helmet Cam Videos

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