Where in Baja is Cheeseberger ?

I have not heard from him in 2 weeks since he went down to prerun. They have him listed as 290X.

Pre ran whole course with Jeff who raced with Conan and I last year. He bought the race bike from me last year and pre ran on the 650 Berg, now has over 6000 trouble free miles. My trusty o4 550 now has 9000 miles and 325+hours and running like a top. No flats or major incidents. Jeff went down hard south of Mike's Sky Ranch running at night and got the biggest bruise i have ever seen. Ran whole course in 5.5 days and drove back immediately from cabo with only a 3 hour rest, can you say RED BULL. Hanging at Baja_racer's house we I've been prepping for the last 5 days. Heading to Ensenada tomorrow. Race starts at 6:30am on tuesday, i"ll be off the line near the back probably between 7:30 and 8:00. I can't wait til race day. Don't have anywhere to stay in Ensenada as of yet, or Cabo, but it will all come together as it always does. I hope everyone is super nifty
cheeseberger

Believe it or not there is a contingent of my buddies from way up here heading down to try the Baja out.

Here = Yellowknife, NT Canada.

Looking forward to hearing about their experience.

Cheers and good luck to you.

Mark

Bump to the top. Anyone know where Colby is at now or how he is doing??

Apparently Colby is signed up with Rallytracker. I found him listed on the their web site rallytracker.com with a starting time of 7:25:30. They also have all the check points listed all the way to and including the finish. However, the web site lists none of the competitors passing through cp 1, so I would assume that their system crashed.

I did some poking around and found that bike 1X has already finished.

Colby is listed as rider 290X, however, since he is riding solo he should have been listed as 290XS, like the other solo riders.

I went to the official SCORE site and that was not all that helpful.

I check in again later and see if I can find anything else out. The time limit is 53 hours for the 1300 mile race. Colby has to maintain a minimum of 26mph to finish under the time limit. If he is maintaining that pace he should be 650 miles in, or 1/2 way as of 0825hrs.

Hope we hear from Colby soon.
I can't fathom riding, much less racing 1300 miles all in one shot. He's gonna be one whipped puppy or~~~~~~~ he'll just grab the surfboard for some relaxing time on the waves.

I just got off the phone with Colby. He finished at around the 48 hour mark and thinks he may have a podium finish in his class (of course he is in a state of total exhaustion and agony presently).
The Berg was flawless except for a plugged tank vent that cost him about 3 hours.
Right now he is kicking back and trying to recuperate. He will post when he can get Internet access and move his wrists again

Congratulation on a job well done Colby.

Looking at the results it looks like Colby was 2nd place for the Ironman in the Sportsman group. 17th overall Sportsman.
I couldnt find anything on Mouse McCoy.

Good work once again colby.

just in...photo of cheeseberger crossing the finish line at baja.

Hello ALL
Well I crossed the border a week ago and am now up in Seattle staying with my mom through the holidays. I stayed down in Baja and camped on the beach and surfed for the last few weeks after the race. I did ride the Berg about 350 miles or so too, but I wanted nothing to do with a motorcycle for about 10 days after the race.
My 2 buddies Matt and Trevis drove my truck, 236,000+ miles now, during the race and were great. The 3 of us stayed with baja_racer, Morgan, and his wife Susie. They are awesome. They had never met me and gave me the key to their home right away. Morgan let me fully take over his garage, which is awesome, and Susie gave me full run of the house. We stayed their about a week and prepped for the race. Morgan and Susie are truly saints.
We didn't have anywhere to stay in Ensenada before the race as the Mexican guy that said we could stay in a house he had turned out to be a Mexicant and totally flaked. However things worked out as they always do, and a nice family let the 3 of us sleep in their garage in Ensenada. Probably slept better in their garage than we would of in a hotel anyway, and saved a bunch of dough.
Woke up the morning of the race at 6:06am, pounded an energy drink, threw on my gear and headed for the start. Had a heck of a time getting to the start as all the streets were blocked off. Then it dawned on me, after many U-turns and failed attempts, that I am in this dam race, and a some what lawless country, so I pointed the Mighty HUSABERG down the only open street around heading the wrong way. I had to pass numerous cops who did nothing, and the streets parted like the Red Sea and in 22 seconds I was there at the start. I still had about 20-30 minutes before it was my turn to shake Sal's hand and begin my 1296.39 mile jaunt down the Baja. I ran into a buddy from Montana who raced last year and who I rode with last summer. Also a Japanese guy who spoke no English with some sort of press badge or something held up his camera to me and nodded and then snapped a bunch of photos of the beautiful BERG. He got some close ups. I am sure he was a Spy from Honda. I felt remarkably calm at the start. Then it was my turn and I left.
After rounding the first corner I saw Matt with the video camera, which I did not expect. So of course I pulled a wheelie, it had to be done, its what you do, and didn't flip over. I hit the Red Bull jump in the wash with a little heat and caught some baby air, this jump is always clean and guarded. Then I settled into my snails pace. I actually went out a little to hard the first 400 miles. My computer told me I was averaging a little over 37mph, and the first 400 miles had most of the slower, tough stuff. Lots of teams didn't even make mile 400. I had a huge scare, and my first myocardial infarction at race mile 30 or so. I hit the first pavement section and the Berg died. I was sort of freaking. It was an air or fuel issue so I pulled the filter I had over the vent hoses, this was the quickest and easiest thing I thought to check. It seemed to work as the bike ran great until the end of the first night. More later, I've run out of room. cheeseberger

The first 40 or so miles had a lot of spectators and quite a few minor "booby traps", mainly just small little jumps, or should I say piles of dirt, but no big deal. There was also quite a bit of water because it had rained earlier in the week. I wanted to keep my feet dry at all cost, after the pain I went through last race having wet feet. I met my chase guys at Santo Domingo, mile 240 or something. I felt great. I ate some food, pounded a Red Bull, and changed the air filter. Off I went.