{"id":5206,"date":"2019-07-12T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2019-07-12T06:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:02:48","slug":"3fc19-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/3fc19-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"3FC19 and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

First up today…our good buddy Gary’s Vintage Yamaha Enduro<\/a> site.\u00a0 Gary alerted me to it a few days ago, I’ve enjoyed poking around on it, and you will, too.<\/p>\n

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This is a cool site about cool bikes. \u00a0 Spend some time here; you’ll be a better person for doing so!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve always admired those vintage Yamaha enduros.\u00a0 Gresh has one and it’s one his favorite motorcycles.\u00a0 I remember the maroon 360 Yamaha offered back in the early 1970s (I was still in college then).\u00a0 I always wanted one, but it’s an itch I haven’t scratched yet.\u00a0 Maybe someday.\u00a0 I’m still young.<\/p>\n

Good buddy Buffalo, a world-class artist who rode with us on one of the Baja rides, created a line art RX3 motorcycle and it’s available in several formats<\/a>.\u00a0 Buffalo loves riding and he loves his RX3.\u00a0 Hey, what’s not to like?<\/p>\n

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This is muey cool, and it’s from a muey cool dude.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Buffalo is a very cool guy who’s done some very cool things.\u00a0 We’ve written about Buffalo before here on the ExNotes blog.\u00a0 Buffalo also has a very cool blog (MotoFritz.com<\/a>), and it’s another I recommend you visit.\u00a0 Buffalo (along with his cousin and niece) recently toured Vietnam on motorcycles, and there are cool videos on the MotoFritz blog from that trip.<\/p>\n

I’m going hunting.\u00a0 Deer this time, in Idaho.\u00a0 Good buddy J invited me to head up north with him later this year to chase Bambi, and I’ll be posting about that here on the ExNotes blog.<\/p>\n

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Good buddy J and the Power Wagon on an earlier Baja expedition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I mentioned J recently when I described his new website (Sierra Mountain Passes<\/a>), but J and I go back a few years.\u00a0 We first met when we were involved in manufacturing high performance sails for ocean racing yachts.\u00a0 Think a million bucks for a set of sails for one boat (and the sails are only good for one season).\u00a0 Good times, those were.<\/p>\n

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Whoa!\u00a0 Talk about adventure!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But back on the deer quest…I’m starting to research venison recipes (yeah, I know, it’s a little early for that and I am counting my chickens before the eggs have hatched).\u00a0 I’m really looking forward to this adventure.\u00a0 We may get a deer, or we may get skunked.\u00a0 Either way, it’s going to be fun.\u00a0 I’m thinking I’ll take my .300 Weatherby Vanguard.\u00a0 It’s way more power than I’ll need, but we’ll be in some rugged country, the Vanguard is my only composite-stocked rifle, and the thing is a tack driver.<\/p>\n

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The Weatherby Vanguard in 300 Weatherby Magnum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More cool stuff…you’ve seen the series we did on the 2005 Three Flags Classic Rally<\/a> from Mexico to Canada.\u00a0 I rode with good buddy Marty, and it was a hell of an adventure.<\/p>\n

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Good buddy Marty on the left and yours truly at Lake Louise in Canada during 3FC05.\u00a0 There were signs warning us of grizzlies in the area!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 3FC is one of the world’s premier motorcycle events, and it’s sponsored by one of the world’s premier motorcycle clubs:\u00a0 The Southern California Motorcycle Association<\/a>. \u00a0 As it turns out, the SCMA is one of our biggest ExNotes fans. \u00a0 They’ve run our ExNotes stories in the SCMA newsletter and they follow our zany ramblings daily.\u00a0 Good buddy Gonzo, their president, suggested that I join the festivities again this year for the 3FC19 rally, and you know what?\u00a0 I’m going.<\/strong>\u00a0 I’ll be on a new CSC RX4 (one from the very first shipment), and I’ll be blogging the hell out of the ride the entire way from Mexico through the United States and on up into Canada.\u00a0 And then I’ll do the same thing on the way home, for which I’ll take a different (to be determined) route.<\/p>\n

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The CSC RX4 up in the San Gabriel Mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CSC<\/a> RX4 is an exciting motorcycle.\u00a0 There was a recent article on this bike in Adventure Motorcycle<\/em> magazine, but I thought that review was a bit on the short side.\u00a0 (How about that?\u00a0 A review of a review!)\u00a0 You can read a lot more about the RX4 right here on ExNotes<\/a>, and you’ll see a whole lot more when I do the 3FC19 on one of the new CSC 450cc RX4 adventure bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First up today…our good buddy Gary’s Vintage Yamaha Enduro site.\u00a0 Gary alerted me to it a few days ago, I’ve enjoyed poking around on it, and you will, too. I’ve always admired those vintage Yamaha enduros.\u00a0 Gresh has one and it’s one his favorite motorcycles.\u00a0 I remember the maroon 360 Yamaha offered back in the … Continue reading “3FC19 and more…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,89,203,140,369],"tags":[675,790,791,78,794,30,792,370,795,796,789,797],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-national-park","category-vintage-motorcycle","category-zongshen","tag-300-weatherby","tag-3fc19","tag-buffalo","tag-csc-motorcycles","tag-deer-hunting","tag-rx3","tag-rx3-line-art","tag-rx4","tag-scma","tag-southern-california-motorcycle-association","tag-three-flags-classic-2019","tag-yamaha-enduro"],"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\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}