{"id":3342,"date":"2019-03-15T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2019-03-15T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T05:00:22","slug":"san-quintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/15\/san-quintin\/","title":{"rendered":"San Quintin!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Bullet, loaded this morning at the hotel in Tecate. There’s a motorcycle under there somewhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a glorious ride today, from Tecate along the Ruta del Vino to Ensenada, and from there down the Transpeninsular Highway to San Quintin, which is where we are spending the night.\u00a0 The weather has been perfect.\u00a0 The Bullet, no so much so earlier, but I think we’ve got it wired now.\u00a0 More on that in a bit.<\/p>\n

Joe and I swapped bikes today, so I was on the Bullet and he was on the 650 Interceptor. \u00a0 He’s in love with that 650, and it’s easy to see why.\u00a0 The 650 is a home run for Enfield, I think. \u00a0 Like me, Gresh is wanting to buy one, too.\u00a0 But I’m finding I really love the Bullet as well. \u00a0 Yeah, it was missing a bit, but like I said, I think we found and fixed the problem. \u00a0 You know, it’s not an adventure until something goes wrong, and then a big part of the fun is figuring out what to do about it.\u00a0 I’ll get to that shortly.<\/p>\n

The photo ops along the Ruta del Vino were awesome, and we took advantage of them…<\/p>\n

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The Royal Enfield 500cc Bullet on Mexico Highway 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Uncle Joe hogging the Interceptor on the Ruta del Vino.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dos Amigos reflected in an Enfield engine case.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another cool thing….with all the rain we’ve had this winter, I’ve never seen Baja so green.\u00a0 As we rode through the old wine country south of Ensenada, the green mountainsides were blanketed with bright orange wildflowers.\u00a0 It really was quite a sight.\u00a0 I didn’t get any photos of that, but I will on the return leg of this trip.<\/p>\n

So, about that Bullet missing deal.\u00a0 The bike only did it when decelerating and then accelerating, and it felt to me that it might be a clogged injector.\u00a0 It doesn’t take much to mess with a fuel injector. \u00a0 Gerry Edwards, my good buddy at Brown BMW, used to work on my RX3 and he’d always dose it with Lucas injector cleaner.\u00a0 Gerry thinks the stuff is great, so Gresh and I found a Mexican AutoZone store in Ensenada and I bought some. \u00a0 We put a little bit in and it didn’t really make a difference (if anything, it felt like the Bullet was missing more). \u00a0 As we continued to ride south, I thought about what it could be and concluded it might be related to a spark plug. \u00a0 We stopped at a Pemex station and pulled the plug.\u00a0 What happened next was interesting.\u00a0 The plug body looked like it had been arcing, but even more interesting was the way the sparkplug cap literally fell off the lead to it.\u00a0 When we looked inside the cap, the screw that turns its way into the lead was covered with green corrosion. \u00a0 Joe got a wire brush and cleaned the connector well, we put it back on, and the bike is running way better. \u00a0 We’ll know for sure tomorrow when we pile on the miles to Guerrero Negro, but I think we’ve got it.\u00a0 I felt a noticeable improvement as soon as we put it back together.<\/p>\n

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Pulling the Bullet plug. The Bullet actually has a pretty nice tool kit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The spark plug cap.\u00a0 The little green thing is the screw that screws into the spark plug wire.\u00a0 It had corroded. \u00a0 We’re pretty sure this is what was causing the missing, and we’re pretty sure we’ve got it fixed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know, you’d think that I’d not like a bike that’s missing, but I am loving that Bullet.\u00a0 I love the vintageness (if that’s a word) of it, and I’m enjoying racking up the miles on a big single.\u00a0 It’s cool.\u00a0 It’s kind of a Lawrence of Arabia feeling, floating along at a steady 65 mph and listening to (and feeling) that big thumper thumping away.\u00a0 I can’t really describe it, but I’ll think about the right words some more and give it another go in tomorrow’s blog.\u00a0 I like it.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

I’m happy to report that the Old Mill Hotel in San Quintin is going strong, and they’ve opened a new restaurant (the Eucalipto).\u00a0 We had a couple of beers after the bikes were put away (Lucia took good care of us), and then it was on to a fabulous dinner (Gresh bought!).<\/p>\n

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Lucy, the lovely young lady who brought us beer and dinner tonight. Life is good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You have to wonder:\u00a0 What is she thinking?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Seared tuna, as served by the Eucalipto. Like I said, life is good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Uncle Joe Gresh, wiring analyst extraordinaire!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 650 Interceptor, covered for its Baja jaunt by our favorite Mexico insurers, BajaBound<\/a>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow, we’re headed through the Valle de los Cirios<\/em>, and then Guerrero Negro. \u00a0 Stay tuned, folks. \u00a0 Good things are happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a glorious ride today, from Tecate along the Ruta del Vino to Ensenada, and from there down the Transpeninsular Highway to San Quintin, which is where we are spending the night.\u00a0 The weather has been perfect.\u00a0 The Bullet, no so much so earlier, but I think we’ve got it wired now.\u00a0 More on … Continue reading “San Quintin!”<\/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":[235,63,66,610],"tags":[620,621,619],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-baja","category-joe-gresh","category-royal-enfield","tag-650-int","tag-650-interceptor","tag-bullet"],"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\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}