There is space at the free NORRA tent village and showers and bathrooms are supposed to be available. We reserved one tent space for our team in addition to a room.
we have space at Our House and Compound. Pull your support truck in behind locked gates and have fun!
I saw Caselli won his Dakar stage with an average speed of 73mph, and I wondered how the M1K stacked up. I took the fastest rider of each stage: D1SS1 74.75 gilky D1SS2 61.81 valle D1SS3 77.32 morton D2SS1 55.01 valle D2SS2 57.41 smith D3SS1 57.67 gilky D3SS2 66.32 valle D4SS1 55.92 smith total avg 60.86
I have a 1983 XR500...cheap... I bought it and entered the 2010 event...blew a head gasket 20 miles out on day 1...:eek1
Would be cool to have a rider of his level in the Mex1K so we could truly see how slow we all are (ok, mostly me) in comparison. I suspect Caselli would be faster in Baja then in most Dakar stages. Would also be cool to have more riders who have done Dakar do this to really hear just how much harder Dakar is. I didn't get much of a chance to talk to Octavio last year but really wanted to ask him that question at the end. I recall chatting with Mouse McCoy last year and asking how fast he and the other top level pros would be going through some of this stuff on a bike. "Dude, you have no idea, it's absolutely crazy" was his response.
There is absolutely no comparison. Though there are some spots in M1K that are a bit challenging, overall it's way easier that Dakar on average. And the navigation in Dakar is in a whole other league. Though the format of M1K is similar to Dakar, there isn't much more to compare. As far as average speed goes, I don't see any way to ever compare that. The terrain is so different, even day-to-day in each event, you're always comparing apples and oranges.
All you have to do it watch this video from the Dakar thread to understand the magnitude of the difference: <object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EprzQQo_X5w?hl=nl_NL&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EprzQQo_X5w?hl=nl_NL&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> We don't need Kurt to come to the m1k to show us how slow we are. Tim Morton did a fine job in the few stages he rode last year...
You can't even compare M1K speeds to SCORE speeds. The M1K course is much less technical in many areas and the long transitions between specials allow for rest making the specials sprints.
Still sorry I couldn't get you more help with that crazy morning. Wait... you said 2010. Who blew up in 2012 on the first transit? Anders
I helped Malcolm, Alexander and Andy Grider with repairing the top end on the husky just past the Military Check point just before Borrego. Got Alexander's bike going and then couldn't get Andy's scooter fired. Anyway, I didn't realize that it had problems before the start.
Yea someone spent the night before changing motors and top ends on the bike so he could make the run to the finish.. Had to use old gaskets and pistons etc but it ran and made it to the finish.
