San Pedro Martin Hillclimb

Yeah no thanks….

 

I watched Carlin Dunn (RIP) do this race a few years back on a supermoto and I thought it looked pretty cool. I still had my place in Cabo San Lucas at the time so thought i should at least check it out the next time i was driving down. Of the videos I've seen the road maintenance looks suspect. Lots of sand, few painted edges etc. I think if you went with the mindset of a spirited Sunday morning ride it might be fun. Like Pikes Peak the off road excursions look unforgiving and nit sure on the closest hospital. With that said I wrote them this morning to register for next year.

Probably take my KTM supermoto.

We'll see what happens!!

 

I had planned to go this year,but worky job /$ kept me from it.Im cool with most of it,but that gravel can eat a dick!! They also have "live" traffic that gets by,and big rigs that park for 10 hr brks that change hrly. The lack of general population respecting a run is horrible. Should be a minimal of a hot shoe rider/ driver running the course for problems,kinda like a camera man in harescrambles. I love the concept,but the roads are shite!! I planned this one forever..Maybe next year.

 

Hey @Wingnut I drove through Sedona last Saturday, were you around? I remember reading you were up in Washington or Oregon with your son?

 

Im down in the Chandler/Gilbert area right now. Packing up my warehouse and moving bikes around.

My place is right by Bell Rock

 

I had to google bell rock, that is really pretty!!! I believe you were taking your entire business from AZ to the Pacific Northwest, is that correct?

 

Shrinking my side of the business substantially. My 2 brothers (co-owners) still run our larger shop in NJ. I'll keep my condo still in Fort Lee for the time being.

Dropping down to a 2,000 sq ft shop in Oregon. I just want to manage engine leasing going forward. So I'll carry about 6-10 serviceable turbine engines and lease them out to operators that have their engines going into an overhaul which takes on average 6 weeks to complete. I got tired of doing the day to day parts sales and don't want any employees anymore.

My day looks like this now: wake at 4am, check emails, whatsapp, do phone calls etc. Get the boys up at 6:30 and off to their daytime stuff or school, gym by 9am. Watch youtube dumb shit for an hour, then play with motorcycles or do something outdoors, skateboard, frisbee-golf, mt bike, shooting range. Check emails again at 2:30, get afternoon coffee then pick up my boys and head home.

Rinse repeat.

 

That sounds fantastic!!!!!!

Happy for you that you could pull that off. I have some friends that have their businesses setup, so they rarely go in. I currently go in every day, unless I’m on vacation. Fortunately it’s not too bad and Im enjoying the challenges of trying to grow.

On another note, you mentioned having a place just outside of manhattan that Tyler might be able to rent a spot for a car? Is that still an option? He has my old 2000 E39 M5 that sits in my garage, and my new to me, but old 01 Boxster is sitting outside.

 

Honestly I still do think the Hillclimb would be a shitload of fun to do. If/when I ever relax a bit from the "serious" side of racing then I could totally see going down to take a FUN-oriented (not i'm-not-here-to-fucking-lose-oriented) crack at it. It would be with exactly the same attitude as I'd take to the Baja 1000 however: "This shit kills people every year. You're here for a good time, not a winning time."

The irony of a TT rider saying that is not lost on me, but I think the difference I'm keying on is the course's predictability. At the TT I know what's around the next corner, and that if for any reason a surprise is coming then a marshal is almost certainly flagging it. At these Mexico races that lack of predictability almost seems like a baked-in part of the race's idea, and I am honestly not good enough of a rider to go as fast as I'm gonna expect myself to and react to unexpected conditions.

 

I didn't follow the other thread closely enough - did you settle on where your shop is gonna be in OR? You sound like a rad dude who works on rad shit. Most of my family and friends are still up in the Seattle area, so I'm up in WA/OR often. I'll try to swing by sometime I'm up there and you're settled in.

 

Settled on Lake Oswego, Oregon. My shop will be right around the corner from Motorsport.com offices off the I5 and Upper Boones Ferry road. I won't have any signage out front or maybe a fake one like "Alessio Salucci hand wipes". Wife and youngest son are already there, I'll be up there by February with the other boys. Still have to close out one of the AZ houses and move the remnants of my shop.

 

You gotta figure out a way to get Rossi in the title. @motion will come around and provide free labor plus regale you in stories of people putting miniscule scratches in Royal Enfields, and how he would beat them to within an inch of their life, if they didn't surrender their credit card ASAP to cover said cheap ass Chinese parts.

 

I am probably good for a couple Ninja 250s these days, Rob. Spending all my scratch on fine French wine these days, you know. If you can find me a place to park my Metris race van in SoCal we can get this going!

Also.... I havent' lost anything at my age and am still at pretty much track record speed. hahahaha

 

I had a dude this past summer put scratches in the gas tank of my rental KLR from his tank bag. Boy was he pissed when I slammed his credit card for $1100!

 

Well Fack!!!! For some reason, in my mind, I think I can run whatever Tyler’s pace was, because, you know, he is my spawn, so obviously I’m as good as him.

Remind me to never rent from you!!! BORROW ONLY!!!

If I borrow your Kramer and throw it down the road, remember, it’s a race bike scratches don’t count!

Ninja 250’s, ha there is no one to race with, you can park that metris at the dump.

 

He strikes me as more of a handkerchief kinda guy.

 

Bench racers gonna race!