Hey Magazine Editors & Photographers...

Welcome to Mexico!



Please consider this blog your offical invitation from EDR organizers and sponsors to join us on this year's ride. Last year about 50 dudes and chicks (90% of whom we'd never met) joined us on our inaugural Mexican freakout hellride. If threads on the Jockey Journal are any indication, there will likely be four times that number of riders blazing a path to Baja next April.

If you're tired of shooting billet barges on white backdrops, San Felipe, Baja on April 19th and 20th will be the place to be for fresh iron and interesting environments. Matt Davis of DiCE magazine is so confident in the quality and quantity of bikes that will be on hand this year, he has graciously volunteered to sponsor trophy production for the three classes in our El Diablo Bike Show in Ensenada Sunday, April 22. We're keeping the nature of these amazing first-place prizes a secret for a few more weeks, but we'll tell you this: they're hand made, they're classic, and they're coming straight out of Hawaii (don't ask...)



If you're a magazine writer who likes to ride, or a chopper rider who likes to write, the 2007 El Diablo Run will provide enough color, controversy and drama to fill a book. And let's face it: covering a story in Mexico has GOT to be more fun than writing about another fucking wet t-shirt contest at the Rusty Trombone Saloon at Biketoberfest MCMLXXVII. Every chopper rag from A to Z has covered those saggy titties and bearded wierdos till the cows come home! Isn't it time to give some modern chopper pioneers their 15 minutes of fame?



Last month Bill, Chris and I had lunch with Ernie and Courtney from Primedia Publications. These are the guys who bring us Hot Bike and Street Chopper. Both gentlemen seemed intent on riding with us this year, but poor Courtney got stuck driving the Street Choppers sag wagon so he can haul all his high-tech camera equipment. How's that for dedication.



Word on the street is at least one guy at Iron Horse magazine is coming on this year's run. Mr. Snow covered the first annual EDR on the pages of his resurgent periodical last year, so we're excited about actually meeting the guys who showed us so much love last spring.

Of course, I'm personally inviting Hammer, Chris, Alan and Geno at The Horse BSC to join us for the ride. If any magazine guys need help, please contact us directly.

To everyone who has already booked palapa huts, built custom El Diablo bikes, reserved hotels and bought t-shirts from our fantastic sponsors, thanks for all your support. See you in 63 days...