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American Rider Missing in Mexico

DReg350 said:
Lack of riding experience didn't seem to be the issue. He made it from New York to Mexico and no rider or bike problems were reported. His last message and the article makes the point that the geo-political landscape was the problem.
  • How much did he learn or know before he got there?
  • What precautions did he take?
  • Did he have to take that route?
  • Was he being hunted?
Again, his skills are less in question than his knowledge of the hot spot he rode in to. :dunno
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I couldn't find the thread on ADV, I checked the last four pages of trip reports, and nothing turned up.
Does anyone have a link to it?
 
Mr Pepsi said:
Pavement 3K miles of interstate highway riding is not the same as silt in the middle of nowhere.
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Agreed, and fixed for truth. That said, I consider myself to be plenty experienced/skilled for this sort of trip, and that is one place that I would not ride through solo right now. The key being the "solo" part. I'm not going to knock the guy for being adventurous, though.
 
Mr Pepsi said:
Pavement is not the same as silt in the middle of nowhere.
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Unless we've read his posts on advrider we don't know if he was riding down a dry riverbed in Mexico.
Mexico has a network of paved roads just as we do in the US, it's likely that he never got off pavement before he stopped communicating.

Once he reaches Central America, that might not be the case, but that still doesn't put his inexperience to the top of the list of problems he'd face.
 
Carlo said:
Unless we've read his posts on advrider we don't know if he was riding down a dry riverbed in Mexico.
Mexico has a network of paved roads just as we do in the US, it's likely that he never got off pavement before he stopped communicating.

Once he reaches Central America, that might not be the case, but that still doesn't put his inexperience to the top of the list of problems he'd face.
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Agreed, just trying to say riding from New York to Mexico, may not have prepared him for the type of ridind he may encounter in Mexico.
 
Carlo said:
Unless we've read his posts on advrider we don't know if he was riding down a dry riverbed in Mexico.
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He's not posting on ADVrider :|

Carlo said:
Mexico has a network of paved roads just as we do in the US, it's likely that he never got off pavement before he stopped communicating.
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:laughing

I'm going to go way out on limb here and guess that you've never ridden in Mexico.
 
Carlo said:
Just correcting someone who claimed he had no formal training.
Boy, did I ever pick the wrong side of this one!
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Not really. This entire topic is subjective.
Fwiw, you couldn't pay me to go to the Olympics right now either.
 
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Carlo said:
Mexico has a network of paved roads just as we do in the US, it's likely that he never got off pavement before he stopped communicating.
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Lucky_Devil said:
:laughing

I'm going to go way out on limb here and guess that you've never ridden in Mexico.
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I’ll admit I’ve never ridden Mexico on a moto, but I'm with Carlo on this. I’ve traveled its entire length and beyond down into Panama by road, mostly by public bus (with the exception of about 1500 miles in my own van) it is entirely possible to do almost all of it on pavement. In fact, I only remember a few boarder crossings being dirt.
 
Oh boy, this thread is taking off on a tangent.

As far as road type and condition...Good grief, even the worst isn't very challenging for a motorcycle....
Trucks and buses do them.
There may be some landslide onto a paved road or landslide that removes (paved or un-paved) road...

But if this rider disappeared, it was at the hands of someone (or someone's).

The whole thing is a mystery at this point. Frankly it doesn't make much sense,
unless he was doing something somewhere around people to make himself stand out as a target.
 
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Lucky_Devil said:
He's not posting on ADVrider :|



:laughing

I'm going to go way out on limb here and guess that you've never ridden in Mexico.
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I just got back from Baja and I can tell you the highways around La Paz, Cabo and Todos Santos are WAAAAY better quality than here in the Bay Area. In fact, some of the dirt roads were smoother than the highways here.:laughing They seem to have been pouring money into them since I was last there a couple years ago.
 
Lucky_Devil said:
He's not posting on ADVrider :|



:laughing

I'm going to go way out on limb here and guess that you've never ridden in Mexico.
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No, but I have been to Mexico. I think a majority, if not all the big cities are connected by paved roads.

Further reading suggests that may not be him in the hospital. Whoever it is, isn't conscious. Possibly robbed and left in the street.
 
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Carlo said:
Anyway, this is all a non-issue. According to the report I linked to above, people have known where he was since last week.
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Barf rule #1: Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
 
Carlo said:
Umm, according to the thread you guys provided links for, he was picked up unconscious last Thursday and is now in a Mexican hospital.
I take it back. More riding experience before embarking on a journey like that would probably have helped.
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Lunch Box said:
Thanks SO much for posting that. What a huge relief. :wow:thumbup
I want to buy that guy a beer and hear the story first hand (assuming that it's our guy). I sure hope it is, and I hope that he comes through this OK.
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I don't think so http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23418551&postcount=27
 
Carlo said:
Just correcting someone who claimed he had no formal training.
Boy, did I ever pick the wrong side of this one!
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Carlo, there are no sides here -

da barf isn't binary, it's a 3-dimensional snowflake of divergent opinions....
 
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