{"id":1776,"date":"2018-12-02T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:11:23","slug":"pre-ride-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/pre-ride-jitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-ride jitters…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yours truly on an earlier ride to San Felipe. I’m buggy about riding in Baja!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time most of you read this, I\u2019ll be on the road on a Janus Gryffin<\/a> with Devin and Jordan headed toward San Felipe. It\u2019s something I\u2019m really looking forward to…a road trip on an exotic 250cc motorcycle in Baja.\u00a0 That\u2019s a formula for a good time, any time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m always a little apprehensive before a big ride and I probably will not have slept well the night before you read this.\u00a0 But I\u2019m relaxed in the knowledge that as soon as the wheels start turning I\u2019ll be completely at ease.\u00a0 I know I’m going to have an awesome time.\u00a0 And I know the memories will last a lifetime.\u00a0 It\u2019s always that way. If you ride big rides, you have had these same feelings before, during, and after any adventure.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon was packing time.\u00a0 I always travel light.\u00a0 It actually takes more time to pack light than it does when you can just bring whatever you want. I\u2019ve get a set of Wolfman soft bags I\u2019ll pull off one of my other motorcycles, and I\u2019ve got a Nelson Rigg tailpack I’ll use for carrying my laptop and my camera.\u00a0 I’m thinking I won’t need the Wolfman bags, as I want to get everything into the tailpack.\u00a0 A change or two of underwear, an extra pair of socks, my meds (all us old guys need our meds), my riding gear, and I\u2019m good to go.<\/p>\n

There are all kinds of riders in the world.\u00a0 I\u2019m the kind that lives for big miles on rides that cross borders. I guess folks call that adventure riding, but I\u2019ve been doing it before it had the label. Back in the day, we simply called these things motorcycle trips. My first one ever, when I was a college kid, was from New Jersey to Canada.\u00a0 You know what they say about Canada: It\u2019s almost like going to another country. All kidding aside, that was a great ride.\u00a0 This one will be, too. They all are.<\/p>\n

I love what Janus is doing, I know the CG engine is a classic stone-cold reliable motor, and I love riding in Baja. I know many of you reading this were alerted to the ExNotes blog by Janus\u2019 Facebook posts. Thanks for joining us. If you\u2019d like to get more info on where we are headed (and Baja in general), please take a look at our Baja<\/a> page. Our ExNotes site has a lot on Baja, and that\u2019s for good reason: It\u2019s a great motorcycle destination. If you\u2019d like to know more about San Felipe (our destination on the Sea of Cortez), please take a look at this \u201cDestinations\u201d piece<\/a> I did for Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine a few years ago. And for those of you who are loyal ExNotes blogistos y blogistas<\/em> but you haven\u2019t heard about Janus yet, please take a look at this awesome review<\/a> my good buddy Richard Backus did on the bikes earlier this year in Motorcycle<\/em> Classics magazine.<\/p>\n

This is going to be a fun ride, my friends. Hang with us here on the blog, and you\u2019ll be a virtual reality Bajaeno<\/em>. One of these days, I hope our paths will cross on a Baja ride!<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget…if you’d like to get automatic updates on the ride and on future ExNotes blogs, please sign up for automatic email notifications on the widget you see here on the blog.\u00a0 We’ll never provide your email address to anyone else, and you’ll be eligible for a drawing for one of our moto-adventure books<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Want to read the rest of the story? \u00a0 Please visit our Baja page<\/a> for an index to all of the Janus Baja blog posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time most of you read this, I\u2019ll be on the road on a Janus Gryffin with Devin and Jordan headed toward San Felipe. It\u2019s something I\u2019m really looking forward to…a road trip on an exotic 250cc motorcycle in Baja.\u00a0 That\u2019s a formula for a good time, any time. I\u2019m always a little apprehensive … Continue reading “Pre-ride jitters…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,392,63,433,89,140],"tags":[434,293,155],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-baja","category-janus","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-janus-gryffin","tag-janus-motorcycles","tag-motorcycle-classics-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}