Tres Picos Hammerdown Tecate 24MAR2018

A and AA Benefit Donation ride out of a private ranch near Tecate BC Mexico. Select invitees, @ 80 riders started in groups. Breakfast at the rancho's gazebo, hit the trail, 35 miles to outside valley lunch stop, hit the trail 25 back to the rancho for cervezas and dinner. I think this year was about a 50% full course finish rate which is high, but in my opinion due to the level of quality riders that are doing this thing now. Before folks would jump in that truthfully would be bottlenecked within a few miles of departure....and the full course finishers would be in the 20% range. Most of the riders now are solid and love the tough stuff. Borrego Negro/Los Banditos club does good local benefit stuff in the Tecate area, this ride was to fund a local old folks nursing home, in the past we have helped local schools as well. My report is that I was very steady and conservative and I stayed with my ride partner Cyril Beta300RR all day. I had a few minor too slow speed tip overs but no real drag my bike hang ups. I'm still having to find my ride pace due to my new found spin class conditioning, even in the last few races I realized I can push a lot more, because during and at the finish I have not even been very tired. Photos and viddys to follow, note my viddies for this ride are very slow and somewhat steady, not too much excitement, kind of trials speed in a lot of cases. My group was John"Gorilla" KTM450EXC-F Lead/GPS, NETRA Fred "Squirrel" KTM350EXC-F, Tommy YZ450FX, Cyril Beta 300RR, Me Husqvarna TX300.

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still more stills from Reed.

And enough......all from Reed. Club "official photog"

PS thank the engineers/testers/extreme enduro development for the 300CCC 2 Stroke in it's current state of design. And no we did not get the Hello Kitty sticker for taking the easy bypass routes. Also most of these shots are from another group but we are in a few shots from when they caught up to us in the river bed pee pee section. Conditions were perfect party cloudy and we had rain during the previous few days, zero dust good traction.

Looks like a lot of fun for sure!

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Is that an oversized ram ball mount on the left side of your bars?

Too good and too tough for me Rob. Well done Sir. Looks like a top place for accomplished riders.

its my bicycle horn

Perfect! It is all we need here in New Hampshire as well

Headlight, brake light, horn, and some paperwork.

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Got tired just watching these vids.