{"id":1877,"date":"2018-12-18T05:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2022-11-27T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T23:13:42","slug":"riding-the-andes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/riding-the-andes\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Andes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ride I took three years ago through Colombia with good buddies Carlos and Juan was one of the best I&#8217;ve ever done&#8230;a solid week of riding in one of the most beautiful and best riding destinations on the planet.\u00a0 Roughly 20% of our journey was on dirt roads through rural Colombia and that was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Juan shot the photo above, incredibly, while he was riding in front of us.\u00a0 We were mounted on AKT RS3 motorcycles, which is the same bike as the CSC RX3 except that it is carbureted instead of fuel injected.\u00a0 That&#8217;s me on the left in the above photo in the fluorescent green jacket; Carlos is on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Those AKT 250s were great machines.\u00a0 What amazed me is that we rode from sea level up to 14,000 feet, and those carbureted bikes ran well at both elevations and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q63TvjKMpW8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Juan was amazing&#8230;he knew Colombia&#8217;s back roads well, and when he didn&#8217;t, he wasn&#8217;t afraid to use &#8220;Juan&#8217;s GPS.&#8221;\u00a0 That was his term for riding alongside somebody driving a tractor or riding a horse, flipping his visor up, and asking for directions (in Spanish, of course) while we were all still moving.\u00a0 The guy could turn around 180 degrees in his seat while he was riding and get things out of his tailbox or take photos (like the one above). \u00a0 I&#8217;m not anywhere near that limber.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting places we visited was a town called Barichara.\u00a0 It was amazing on many levels, not the least of which was an incredible cemetery.\u00a0 Bear in mind that I did this trip while I was writing the CSC blog (I think I wrote something like 2500 entries on that blog), so when you hear me say &#8220;This is Joe from CSC,&#8221; that was then and this is now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2bH44-B35Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I miss riding the exotic locales like Mexico, Canada, Colombia, China, and more.\u00a0 But when that happens, I hop into one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/Books.html\">moto adventure books<\/a> and relive the adventure, and you can, too.\u00a0 You might get one of our books for free if you sign up for automatic email notifications on the ExNotes blog!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Get the entire Colombia adventure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moto-Colombia-Joe-Berk\/dp\/1530039347\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moto-Colombia-Joe-Berk\/dp\/1530039347\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moto-Colombia-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moto-Colombia-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Moto-Colombia-300-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>More epic rides are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ExhaustNotes.us\/Rides.html\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Help keep the lights on:\u00a0 Please click on those popup ads&#8230;you don&#8217;t have to buy anything!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ride I took three years ago through Colombia with good buddies Carlos and Juan was one of the best I&#8217;ve ever done&#8230;a solid week of riding in one of the most beautiful and best riding destinations on the planet.\u00a0 Roughly 20% of our journey was on dirt roads through rural Colombia and that was &hellip; 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