DonJigweed
Urban Achiever
I'm going to be down in Cabo for a few days and would love to do some kind of dirt bike tour for like half a day or so, where you just show up and ride one of their bikes with a few other people. Can you guys recommend a tour shop anywhere in the area?
I guess my list of features for the "ideal tour" would be:
1. small group, like 3-10
2. good machinery, like if there was a knob of machinery/cash you could turn, you'd keep turning it up, towards 11
3. an "ideal route"
3a. with as much variation in the different categories of terrain as you could get
3b. picturesque, lots of natural beauty
3c. lots of elevation changes
3d. tight, twisty, technical stuff, but faster stuff too, where you can let it out if you know what you're doing, which I basically don't in the dirt
3e. instructors/guides who know how to run a ride, with not too many calfs they're responsible for herding down the trail
3f. technically challenging for a 5'11" 175lb 43 year old who's carrying a few extra pounds, doesn't have a whole lot of muscle mass, is not in great cardio condition, can only run 2 or 3 miles these days, and who was a relatively competent road racer, who won a couple of races in the least competitive class of the amateur classes of local club racing like 6 years ago, but who certainly isn't nearly that sharp on a bike today, and who hasn't even been on a bike in the last 8 months, and who has very, very little dirt riding experience, and the small handful of times has been in the dirt has every time been surprised at how different, and in many ways more difficult the dirt is, and surprised at how poorly he's able to control the bike and generally make it go where he wants it to go.
Thanks!!
I guess my list of features for the "ideal tour" would be:
1. small group, like 3-10
2. good machinery, like if there was a knob of machinery/cash you could turn, you'd keep turning it up, towards 11
3. an "ideal route"
3a. with as much variation in the different categories of terrain as you could get
3b. picturesque, lots of natural beauty
3c. lots of elevation changes
3d. tight, twisty, technical stuff, but faster stuff too, where you can let it out if you know what you're doing, which I basically don't in the dirt
3e. instructors/guides who know how to run a ride, with not too many calfs they're responsible for herding down the trail
3f. technically challenging for a 5'11" 175lb 43 year old who's carrying a few extra pounds, doesn't have a whole lot of muscle mass, is not in great cardio condition, can only run 2 or 3 miles these days, and who was a relatively competent road racer, who won a couple of races in the least competitive class of the amateur classes of local club racing like 6 years ago, but who certainly isn't nearly that sharp on a bike today, and who hasn't even been on a bike in the last 8 months, and who has very, very little dirt riding experience, and the small handful of times has been in the dirt has every time been surprised at how different, and in many ways more difficult the dirt is, and surprised at how poorly he's able to control the bike and generally make it go where he wants it to go.
Thanks!!
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