{"id":8449,"date":"2020-05-09T06:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2020-05-09T06:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:52:58","slug":"day-1-adventure-riding-the-andes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/09\/day-1-adventure-riding-the-andes\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Adventure Riding the Andes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Colombia adventure continues…a circumnavigation of the Colombian Andes on a 250cc motorcycle.\u00a0 For those of you just joining in, I’m reposting a series of blogs I did for CSC Motorcycles<\/a> describing my ride through the Andes Mountains in December 2015.\u00a0 After spending the previous day tearing around Medellin and its surroundings, I had become acclimatized to the mile-high altitudes.\u00a0 As the adventure continued, we would head even higher, all the way up to 14,000 feet, but that’s all coming later.\u00a0 \u00a0On this, my second day in Colombia, we headed into the Andes and then down to the Caribbean.\u00a0 Our real journey had started, and here is that story.<\/p>\n

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Wow! I never thought I\u2019d been typing this, but here I am. I just rode across the northernmost range of the Andes Mountains.\u00a0 On an RX3.\u00a0 Here they are: The Andes!<\/p>\n

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I took that shot from a cool little spot where we stopped for a typical Colombian breakfast\u2026hot chocolate, scrambled eggs, and arrepa<\/em>. More on that later\u2026here\u2019s a shot of the bikes at what has to be one of the coolest biker restaurants I\u2019ve ever enjoyed.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s another shot of my AKT Motos RS3 (the RS3 is the carbureted version of the RX3).<\/p>\n

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I liked that restaurant a lot. They painted it to match my jacket.
\nWe rode about 370 miles yesterday, and about half of it was in the Andes. 370 miles may not seem like a lot, but picture riding Glendora Ridge for 6 or 8 hours. The Andes are a motorcycling paradise. The Andes Mountains.<\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

I guess you never know what you\u2019re going to see in the Andes. This old goat was kind of cool\u2026and I had to grab a shot.<\/p>\n

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We stopped to take a break and some of the local paramilitary\/police guys came over to check out the bikes. The RX3 is a prestige motorcycle in Colombia (just like it is in the USA) and these boys wanted a closer look. They gladly consented to a photo. They are most definitely well armed. You see police and military units everywhere.<\/p>\n

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These next photos are from the saddle after we descended from the Andes. Good times, my friends.<\/p>\n

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These next photos are of young ladies who are gas station attendants. When they saw our 250cc RX3 motos, they wanted to know what it was like riding such huge motorcycles. That\u2019s a bit different from what you might hear in the USA, I suppose.<\/p>\n

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It was a long day, and it ended in a town called Covenas, right on the Caribbean. We stopped for a few shots with the sea in the background.<\/p>\n

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Keep an eye on the blog, folks. I won\u2019t be able to post every day, but I\u2019ll do my best.<\/p>\n

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And that wrapped up the second day of my time in Colombia, and the first day of our ride through the Andes.\u00a0 We’re going to make it a little easier to track this adventure for our blog readers.\u00a0 You can get all of the good stuff from our Colombian ride here<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll post the next blog from our Colombia adventure in a few days, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Colombia adventure continues…a circumnavigation of the Colombian Andes on a 250cc motorcycle.\u00a0 For those of you just joining in, I’m reposting a series of blogs I did for CSC Motorcycles describing my ride through the Andes Mountains in December 2015.\u00a0 After spending the previous day tearing around Medellin and its surroundings, I had become … Continue reading “Day 1: Adventure Riding the Andes!”<\/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":[654,235,89,369],"tags":[247,78,298,1138,1133,30],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-amazon","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-zongshen","tag-colombia","tag-csc-motorcycles","tag-de-motos","tag-magdalena-river","tag-rs3","tag-rx3"],"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\/8449","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=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8528,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}