BAJA 1000-Ultimate Followers Guide to The Battle of 1X

[troy safari carpente]

The 5x KTM must be real close now... the IRC tracker shows them just outside La Paz...?

[troy safari carpente]

5X
Date: 16 Nov 2012 03:46:27 GMT-8h
Speed: 0 mph
Name: Kurt Kaselli

[klatelm]

KTM finished 2nd RDC feed back on.

[El Cucuy]

From Breauxman:

Max Eddy Jr and Ricky Brabec bring the 104x home for Jim ONeal and Shane Esposito. What's very cool about this is that Ricky and Max shared the entire peninsula from San Felipe to La Paz on a shoestring w one driver and borrowed support from Desert Assassins- and got 3rd overall!!! Their trailtech voyagerreads a top speed of 106MPH


Nice

[El Cucuy]

Unofficial

1. 1X

2. 5X

3. 104X

4. 3X

5. 300X

[El Cucuy]

From Chilly re: Quinn:

1:48 am – updates Chilly talked with Quinn, he is a bit beat up, probably a broken leg, but sitting up in his own truck on the way from Santa Rita to La Paz with Dr. and Charly.

[El Cucuy]

From THR:

"Well we gave it everything we had and we came up a bit short. A mechanical failure occurred at about mile 995 not allowing the bike to finish. Robby, Destry, David and Steve did their job. They had us in a position to be Baja Champions! Congrats to JCR for their victory and retention of the 1x plate. This was the most exciting Baja season for bikes in years and all of us at THR were proud to be part of it."

[troy safari carpente]

08:22 am

mayhem321: rm538 259x crash bike is ridable rider can not ride

[wrk2surf]

dang.. Hope whoever it is ..is OK

[Mr Fast]

Hey Michael,
Wish you were here. We've had some tough people humbled.

[snooker]

Originally Posted by Ciampa

While focusing on the top finishers it's easy to forget that much of the field is only halfway through their race. Most of the bikes are in the thick of the hell right now, having been caught by the TTs. At least it's not foggy.

2:23am

It's no fun being passed by this train during the night. The relentless TTs and buggies with their blinding lights and sirens.

No sh*t man. From the thread for Solo rider "frog" on 257x :

A post at 5:19am today:

I just got off the phone with the Frogger at RM 615.

He's had a rough few hours in the silt beds. Trucks going by causing him to hug the high silt bed walls or scramble out. Also his the starter fuse blew and he's been too tired to kick start it so he's using a pair of pliers to jump the bike to life. He's sounds good though and is in good spirits. They are working on the bike a bit. He's not at all injured, just sore. He needed a little sit down break anyway :)

He'll be motoring on soon.

a few hours later:

Frog hit Baja Pits here in Scorpion Bay at 7 30 Baja south time.
Bike was smashed. That TT hit him hard. Sub-frame was pointing to the sky, and pushed into the rear shock.
Matt was fine. He was way fired up about the whole thing. He will make he finnish just to kick the TT driver in the nuts¡¡¡¡

Frog is still doing fine, last I heard he plans to finish just after dark!

I'm trying to find any sightings on 274x. Apparently not on this thread, but if not then does anybody know a better thread or site that is being updated with numbers that have been sighted???? thanks!

[Spark Plug]

I had to leave for a while. Did they find the bikes that were missing?

[cuneesity]

Looking for info on 178x and 258x.....

[klatelm]

any race results, what was JCR's time

[LC Garage]

How about 201X? This is the "Race for the Wounded" entry, spot tracker looks to have quit about 7 AM near San Ignacio. Any news from anyone?