2013 Dakar on a smoker! Inmate luisbelaustegui

Seavoyage · 01-22-2013, 07:27 AM

Luis Belaustegui #150, a 48 year-old professor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Living the Dakar Dream, campaigned and finished on a KTM 150XC 2-stroke!

Send luisbelaustegui your congratulations. Post on his thread: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=796687

Content on Luis from Dakar 2011 and 2012:

Motorcyclist Article: Another KTM Hero of the Dakar 2011 Riding a KTM 150 XC

Blog: http://thedakar.blogspot.com/2012/01...i-on-move.html

backdrifter · 01-22-2013, 08:19 AM

Wow, that is just phenomenal! Way to go luisbelaustegui! I have so many questions...

Wouldn't fuel consumption be an issue compared to a four stroke?

Does the 150 have enough power? (it obviously does, it finished!)

That is just awesome! I love hearing these success stories, especially when it's someone that clearly doesn't want to follow what the rest of the herd are doing. I'm not too far from UMKC, maybe I need to drop in an buy him a beer!

Airhead Wrangler · 01-22-2013, 09:57 AM

Cool that he finished. How 'bout the guy on a bultaco!?! Too bad he withdrew, but still... wow.

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/ig...kar-53512.html

meijer's trails · 01-24-2013, 05:08 AM

That is fantastic!

01-22-2013, 08:19 AM	#2
backdrifter Wannabe rider Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Belleville, IL Oddometer: 1,308	Wow, that is just phenomenal! Way to go luisbelaustegui! I have so many questions... Wouldn't fuel consumption be an issue compared to a four stroke? Does the 150 have enough power? (it obviously does, it finished!) That is just awesome! I love hearing these success stories, especially when it's someone that clearly doesn't want to follow what the rest of the herd are doing. I'm not too far from UMKC, maybe I need to drop in an buy him a beer! __________________ "We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living." -Thich Nhat Hanh 1973 BMW R60/5

01-22-2013, 09:57 AM	#3
Airhead Wrangler More tacos than you Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Manzanillo MX, occasionally Seattle Oddometer: 5,088	Cool that he finished. How 'bout the guy on a bultaco!?! Too bad he withdrew, but still... wow. http://www.autoevolution.com/news/ig...kar-53512.html __________________ R80ST Gets The HPN Treatment Ducati Pantah 500SL Rebuild Seattle to TDF on an airhead WTB R100R Mystic sidestand and mount.

01-24-2013, 05:08 AM	#4
meijer's trails Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jun 2008 Location: S.E. Michigan Oddometer: 402	That is fantastic! __________________ Washtenaw Co MI dirt road t.o.r.

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01-22-2013, 07:27 AM	#1
Seavoyage ^OP Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Dec 2011 Location: San Francisco Oddometer: 105	2013 Dakar on a smoker! Luis Belaustegui #150, a 48 year-old professor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Living the Dakar Dream, campaigned and finished on a KTM 150XC 2-stroke! Send luisbelaustegui your congratulations. Post on his thread: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=796687 Content on Luis from Dakar 2011 and 2012: Motorcyclist Article: Another KTM Hero of the Dakar 2011 Riding a KTM 150 XC Blog: http://thedakar.blogspot.com/2012/01...i-on-move.html __________________ There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. -Ernest Hemingway Seavoyage screwed with this post 01-22-2013 at 04:22 PM