A word about chase trucks

There has been some chatter on the innerwebs about chase trucks.

Here's the deal: We have ONE.

We'll have a van and a flat bed trailer and extra gas, just like we have the last two years. We are not your official tow truck service, and you should not depend on us to be your personal Mexico hospitality rig. We won't leave anyone behind, but there is no way we can try to provide chase to so many riders. The first year we had 40 riders or so. 2007 there were over 200 bikes that we counted personally. We saw about 5% of those bikes in trucks and on trailers by Ensenada. We are expecting more this year, and if the percentage of crippled roaches remains constant you can see that our one rig will be overwhelmed quickly.

Enter self-reliance. Remember the big lectures on other pages of this website about having your shit together and all that? That requirement has not changed. We'll have gas and tools in the van, but we'll give you about 10 minutes to sort your shit out or top off and then we are out of there, otherwise this trip will take 100 hours if we have to stop and wipe each guy's ass along the way.

This hasn't been a problem in the past, everyone just works together. If you see some one broke down on the side. Stop asshole, stop. Help a brother out, see what he needs. If it's terminal, try to help him hitch a ride with your girlfriend in the truck or whatever. If you do have a support truck following you, please instruct your people to stop and lend a helping hand, and bring extra gas for sure.

Anyone who hasn't been on the run and wants to talk shit about pussies needing chase trucks can eat a bag of dicks. The roads are bad and distances between things are long and desolate, and it happens to be a hard place to get out of if you are alone and broken down on the side of the highway somewhere. To me, this is a big part of what makes it fun and challenging. I've done it alone on a 40 year old bike, and stood on the side of the highway out of gas in the middle of nowhere. It's actually kind of entertaining, but it makes one seriously consider having a friend in truck somewhere off in the distance...

-Billdozer