Baja Bound with Janus Motorcycles!

Janus motorcycles. We’ll be riding them in Baja!

It’s a go, and it’s going to be a grand adventure. In just a few days we’re headed to Baja with the good guys from Janus Motorcycles!

I’m excited about this trip. It’s four days and roughly a thousand miles, I’ll be riding with Devin and Jordan from Janus Motorcycles, and we’ll all be on 250cc Janus classic bikes. We’re hitting the best of southern California’s mountains and forests, Tecate, San Felipe, the Sea of Cortez, the Rumarosa Grade, Ensenada, the northern Baja wine country, and more. Fish tacos. Lobster burritos.  Chilequiles. Birreria. Tequila (after the bikes are put away for the night, of course). It’s going to be grand, and you’ll be able to follow the adventure each day right here on the ExhaustNotes blog. We’ll be riding some of the most beautiful roads in one of the most beautiful parts on the planet, and you can bet we’ll be covered by our good buddies from BajaBound Insurance.

Northern Baja’s Rumarosa Grade. Look closely in the lower right foreground, and you’ll see the cars that went over the side.

This will be my first ride on a Janus Motorcycle, and I’m very much looking forward to the experience. A classic lightweight British-styled motorcycle manufactured right here in the United States, powered by the iconic and bulletproof CG engine, on a run through northern Baja…this is going to be awesome!


Want to read the rest of the story?   Please visit our Baja page for an index to all of the Janus Baja blog posts!

12 thoughts on “Baja Bound with Janus Motorcycles!”

  1. Wow. Now that does sound awesome. Looking forward to the writeup. Enjoy a fish taco for me.
    Any dirt or all pavement?

  2. Have a great time Joe. Give us a report on the bikes and conditions in Baja tourist wise. Hope most of the mainland border caravan news hopefully doesn’t affect beautiful, peaceful Baja side.
    Is your route something like you did on CSC Baja rides? Have a fun ,safe ride.
    We are in the freezing time of year so not riding any more for 2-3 months up here 🤨

    1. Thanks, Rob. It is a similar route to the one I rode with the TT250s. It’s not the route we rode on the RX3s.

      I don’t believe anything I see in the media about Mexico (including the caravan); they either get it completely wrong or they miss stuff altogether.

      Stay warm up there in the Pacific Northwest, Rob.

  3. Not all that familiar with the Janus bikes but they are cool. As I understand it they are custom made in the USA and use Chinese sourced CG Clone engines??

    Any trip down the Mexican Baja Peninsula is worth following especially on small displacement machines. Looking forward to reading about it!

    1. If you go to the Baja page, Chris, you’ll see a series of links to blogs on riding to Cabo and back on 150cc Mustang replicas. Small bikes, Baja…it all makes for a good time.

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