It's official now!

I am now officialy crazy! I faxed in my entry for the Baja 500 yesterday and my name is on the list as of this morning.The bike is in SanDiego having the light system installed this week and I will have the GPS tracker installed next week. All I have to do now is find a way to pay for all of this! Oh Ya, and do my 250 mile leg of the race:blink:

:woohoo: I have driven all over northern Baja...fantastic scenery...but I suspect you'll be traveling a bit too fast to appreciate it:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Cool!
I think you're in for a wild time. Mexico's getting kinda hard on touristas these days... keep an eye on your stuff!

That will be awesome! Good luck!

Pictures and a blog or at least post here every day of the race.:laugh:

Sweet! What bike are you campaigning? You have GOT to keep us abreast of this one!!!

Did anyone mention pics? :whistle:

I wish you well. That is a tough undertaking, and yes, I'm envious! Whether it's the 500 or the 1000, it appears to be an experience of a lifetime.

Hey John,

That's way cool news! What sort of bike will you be propelling yourself at breakneck speeds upon?

Good on Ya! And Safe Flying Low!

KZCSI

We will be running a 2006 H@N%A CRF450X. There were going to be 4 of us on the team but 2 guys backed out 2 weeks ago so it will be just my brother and I. I'm sponsored by Callaway Motorsports,(our local Kawasaki/Honda dealer). The bike is at Baja Designs right now having an 8" halogen race light set up installed and I'm picking up the HID helmet lights. We had the shop that does the factory Honda teams suspension,(Precision Concepts),do the legs on our bike. I put a full Pro Circuit T4 exhaust system on and did all of the jetting and air box mods as well as gear it up to run in the mid 90's mph I will be going down to Baja on Memorial day weekend and spend the entire week there before the race,(which is on Sat May 31st), mostly at my fiance's house in Rosarito.I will put up posts during the week but the race is a one day,(32 hours),event so I can't do anything during the race. One interesting thing is we are now required to use a new GPS syst that will also allow people to follow our progress on the internet. You just go to their site, put in the race number,and it will show were we are at that moment. The syst had a few flaws at the last race were a lot of racers didn't show up on the map but hopefully they have that fixed by now. Our racing number is 298x. I will post more info about that website when I pick up the transmitter.
This will be one hell of an experience! I have been racing desert for over 20 years but this will be my 1st race in Baja.

Hey John! Glad you're are all healed up. Have a good race, hope to see you again someday.

Hey Congrats on the entry KZJohn! When is race day & what is your start time going to be? Your bike mods sound cool, for sure keep us posted, good luck, Doug :woohoo:

Zedone wrote:

Hey Congrats on the entry KZJohn! When is race day & what is your start time going to be? Your bike mods sound cool, for sure keep us posted, good luck, Doug :woohoo:

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Race day is Sat May 31st at 6am. I don't know my start time yet, each rider takes off at 30 second intervals. I elected for a "rear start" so I should be one of the last in the class to start,(if someone passes me,their not in my class,if I pass someone, they are in my class.).It's all based on elapsed time.