Slow Baja - Adam Sheard Speed Deluxe Vintage Motorcycle Adventures

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Adam Sheard, a Brit by birth, has always had an affinity for old vehicles. He runs Speed Deluxe, a full-service motorcycle shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, specializing in custom builds, restorations, and fabricating unique solutions.  He started Speed Deluxe Vintage Adventures to combine epic road trips with vintage motorcycles. Harking back to the days of multi-day enduro events --where you have to fix your bike as you go and make it to pre-scheduled stop points each evening. The grueling Vintage 1000, now in its ninth year, has been a smashing success! Adam has developed a loyal following over the years --with his ever-expanding array of trips. A testament to his devout following, his first Baja Vintage Adventure sold out within 24 hours of querying a select list of Vintage 1000 veterans. Check out Adam's Speed Deluxe Motorcycle Adventures here: ⁠https://speeddeluxe.com/sdva/⁠

Hey, this is Michael Emery. Thanks for tuning into the Slow Baja. This podcast is powered by Tequila Fortaleza, handmade in small batches, and hands down, my favorite tequila. I always say, ask your doctor if Baja is right for you. Well, right now, folks, it's the open enrollment period for the Slow Baja vintage expedition.

For vehicles 1993 and older, and motorcycles 1980 and older, and I'm not going to tell you anymore about the motorcycles because the motorcycle side has already sold out, teamed up with Adam Sheared at Speed Deluxe, and that side is closed. So if you're coming, you're coming on four wheels. It's October 15th through the 20th, 2023. We're going to start out at a hotel.

We're going to end at a hotel. We're going to have four nights of camping under the stars on private land. we've got a chef and a team that's going to prepare fabulous, fabulous food, got great dirt roads, good people, and great old trucks. If this sounds like the way you'd like to experience Slow Baja, well, you've got to reach out. The information is at slowbaha.com. On the new Adventures tab, you can click the Slow Baja Vintage Expedition at slowbaha.com slash adventures.

And if you're ready to pull the trigger and sign up, well, over there at the Slow Baja shop at slowbaha.com, you can click on the deposit ticket. and pull the trigger. And I will see you in Baja in October at the Slow Baja Vintage Expedition. Next event I want to tell you about is the Slow Baja rally. Now, this one doesn't have many rules.

It's February 23rd through March 3rd, 24, and it's for anything you've got on wheels. So if you've got a sprinter van, if you've got a VESPA, you can do this event any way you want. It's really about going slow and saying hello, community, camaraderie. We're going to have a big party before we leave in San Diego. You're going to get to

meet some travel buddies. And for those folks on the dirt, you're going to have some friends with you. And for those folks on the pavement, you're going to find some folks who want to travel with you and at your pace. And again, what we're doing here is being where we are, fewer miles, more smiles, getting into camp. We're going to have the pre-selected campsites, getting into camp during the daytime, putting up your tent, popping open a cold one, sharing with your neighbors. Maybe you're You're going to cook a little meal together. You're going to play a little free-form botchy ball on the beach or go for a swim. But it's really a much more relaxed pace than some of these other rallies that need to be the biggest and the baddest and cover the most miles.

We're going to cover the best miles with the most smiles. I guarantee it. Slowbaha.com slash adventures. For more information, it's the Slow Baja Rally, February 23rd through March 3, 2024. Hey, thanks for tuning in to the Slow Baja today. My heaping dose of gratitude goes out to all those folks who have signed up for the Slow Baja Vintage expedition. They've sent in their deposits. They're coming.

They've gotten the hall pass from their spouse or they're bringing their spouse and they're bringing their old truck and they're getting stuff done and ticked off the list. And I'm just stoked that folks are making the leap to come on this epic adventure. You know, I drive an old truck in Baja all the time. I don't even think about it. But folks who have these cool old rigs, they barely drive them on dirt. and they certainly rarely drive them on dirt and Baja. So for the folks who have decided to step up and take the leap and come with, I'm really excited. We're going to have a great trip.

We've got a great bunch of folks coming. I'm not going to tell you who's on the trip, but it's really special. So without further ado, I want to introduce you to today's guest, Adam Sheard runs Speed Deluxe in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and that's a motorcycle restoration shop for vintage bikes, and he is my partner in this endeavor. Adam's been running the Speed Deluxe vintage adventures for the last decade or so, and he runs off-road dirt bike, vintage bike trips all over the United States, and we teamed up for his first Baja offering. We've been talking about it for a long time.

We've got it done. We got the course nailed. We dotted all the eyes. We crossed all the T's. We've got all the campsites. We've got every inch of road 2,200-plus miles into picking out, I don't know, about 700 miles of prime Baja dirt. and it's really going to be special.

So without further ado, Adam Sheard, Speed Deluxe, talking about our Slow Baja Speed Deluxe adventure. Adam, Sheared. Welcome, Amico. We've spent so much time together lately. We're like old pals. Yeah, it definitely seems that way.

We've been through a few things together in the last week and then a week together in July as well. So that's been great. A week in July was the week we just had. That shows you where I'm at. We're a week in May. We had a week in May and my land cruiser, and we had a week. We just wrapped up a week in July 1,100 miles,

finalizing the scouting for the slow Baja vintage expedition and the Speed Deluxe Baja expedition, right? Yeah, the Speed Deluxe Vintage Adventures Baja Expedition. that's a bit long-winded but company name and expedition name yeah so i think that fully explains it can you tell me what your company does yeah so um well speed deluxe itself is a vintage motorcycle shop um which we started um just over 10 years ago and um i guess eight nearly nine years ago we decided to start doing some uh vintage motorcycle trips um so speed deluxe vintage vintage Adventures was a spinoff of the company.

And so that's what we've been doing for the last nearly 10 years. I think we're in our ninth year this year. So, yeah, pre-1980 motorcycles on three-and-five-day rides. And you've been doing that all over the United States. You're in Chattanooga. You're from England, obviously. If folks haven't figured that out from your accent, you're from England. You're living in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

I stopped by and saw you on a cross-country drive when we started talking about putting together a Baja trip. And you're running these events in the south. And in the, well, you tell me, where are you running these trips? Yeah, so the first few years, of course, we started slow, just one event a year. And so we've been doing since, I think, the first four or five years, we basically did them in the southeast.

so Tennessee of course that's where we're from we base a lot of our rides from there Tennessee North Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Florida I think is the states we've been in the southeast and of course Chattanooga is right on the border with Alabama and Georgia and only an hour and a half way from North Carolina so a lot of our trips in the east actually cover two to three states and then three or four years ago we started to move out into other states so we've done Utah a couple of times most recently this year and Arizona and then we're in Colorado next year we've got trip we're trying to plan a trip for Oregon the year after that also thinking about

Japan in 2025 as well so we're slowly moving around the states and we're we're slowly moving around the states and want to try and cover all the states have some good riding so we're predominantly up until now we've we've really done kind of dual sport rides what we call a dual sport ride um most of our rides are around 75-ish percent off-road and then next year we're branching into doing some road rides as well just a first initial four-end to that in the north carolina so yeah that's what we kind of were up to and where we go and so hopefully Hopefully we can cover all the states that have got really good ride in in the future. Yeah, so we teamed up for the Baja vintage coming up in October,

and you've got such a robust following that you basically put it out to your known clients and your folks who've been with you on these rides before and sold out rapidly. Never really open to the public. No, it never opens the public. I think with Baja, you know, it's a little bit different to the U.S. just in terms of, you know, even things like, you know, if something does go wrong, which is very rare, but, you know, emergency services and, you know, it's just a different country, honestly. And we wanted to, for this first time into Baja.

Literally. Yeah, literally. We wanted to make sure we had a really good solid crew. So what I did was just shot an email out to not even our, honestly, not even our previous riders, but a select group that we knew were a certain skill level and their bikes were always a certain level of preparedness. So, yeah, coming off that, we, I think 95% of the people respect. bonded within a day and we're like,

slime me up. Yeah, that's awesome. That really speaks, I think, volumes of the falling that you've built and how people trust you in this endeavor to find the right roots and put them onto an awful lot of fun. Basically, you do all the legwork. I mean, we have done a lot of legwork. We've got a lot of calls.

We've dogged our benchmark maps. I mean, we're looking at the digital stuff. We're looking at the paper stuff. We're driving now. We've driven, I don't know. We've driven over 2,000 miles. Easily over 2,000. Yeah, to get lessons to really get probably 700 miles of usable stuff.

Yeah. It's going to be pretty epic. Yeah, it's, you know, and this last week is, you know, we've got some great stuff in May, as it turns out. And, but this last week has really cemented what's going to be a really fantastic trip. So we met on the Nora Mexican 100, 2020, and you soloed a 19-20, and you soloed a 19-7, 66 triumph on that. And Nora just doesn't have people doing this crazy stuff.

I mean, people are, they have vintage guys and they have vintage bikes, but vintage bikes are not like 1966 vintage. Nobody's really doing that. No, I think the, um, the closest bike to me in age is 1986, so, uh, 20 years. And, uh, in dirt bike terms, 20 years is a, is a lot. Um, it really is a lot. So, but it's, it was something that, you know, I'd wanted to do for quite a long time and, you know, to me, a peninsula run on a Vinci's triumph like they did back in 68 and around that period was just to me like a, it seemed like a real bucket list thing to do, to be honest. Like it was really up there in the top five.

And it was, it was hard. not going to lie it was difficult but um there was a fantastic experience to finish it and then you know i was the only one in my class but i did win the class by essentially not being defeated by baha which is which is a huge huge huge accolade not to be defeated by baha yeah no it really it really is it really is it's very easy to be defeated by the peninsula for sure so that's where we met. We followed up, started some conversations last year, and we've gotten to this point where we've had a week-long trip in May and my old land cruiser, and then we just wrapped up this magnificent week. I'm still a little dazed, frankly. Like, did we just see all of that on this trip? But when you are scouting a trip in the states, how do you explain the difference in dirt here versus the difference in dirt there? I mean, you're all over the United States. Southwest. southwest, southeast? Yeah, it's certainly in the U.S., especially in the east, you know, east of the Mississippi.

A lot of stuff we use is forest service tree roads and things like that, which are reasonably well-grown. You know, there are areas which aren't. But generally speaking, they are, you know, have a reasonable standard, let's say. And then you move west of the Mississippi and things get a little bit different for sure. BLM land you know not everything is as well maintained as it is in the east

so that's one thing and they are definitely more difficult rides our rides in the west are definitely more orientated to bikes that were designed by the manufacturer as

enduro bikes you know not not the scrambler type bikes that you know the triumphs and the Honda CLs and things like that it's totally doable on those bikes but it's a lot easier on a fixed indiro bike and then you get into bahar and um it kind of steps it up a level um you know the

one of the biggest things i felt i didn't realize until i first came to bar how much mountain there was down the peninsula so that's a huge factor you've got to get across the mountains um if you want to go you know from coast to coast that kind of thing east to west yeah east to west yeah and then you've got the fact that this place has been raced for the last 50 years and a lot of these dirt roads that you see on the map are just you know they're just whooped out they're you know unless you're in a trophy truck they're super difficult you know and then you've got stuff that you know especially as we found out this week they're really just kind of rock crawling roads that last happened to last 10, 20, 30 miles.

So it's much more difficult. You know, normally a route takes me, you know, around about a week in that area to figure out after, you know, I've obviously done a lot of pre-planning and got a route planned out. But, you know, Baha has taken as double the time. And honestly, we could spend even more time to keep refining it and refining it and refinery. finding it. So it's definitely, it's a challenging place in a lot of regards, but especially in route planning. So why vintage? You know, I've been into vintage cars specifically since I was 15 or 16. I'm not entirely sure why really, to be honest, but they've always held an attraction

to me. And I've always been quite mechanically minded. And then when I started getting into bikes, I, you know, I rode a modern bike initially. And I was kind of taking a break from projects and mechanical things of that nature. And but eventually that bug bites again. And, you know, I think it's something about the, you know, even the aesthetic design, the timeless design of some of these bikes and cars. It's just there's something about them that stir something inside me, you know. And, you know, they're not easy either, which I think is part of the attraction for me.

You know, you don't get in and turn the key every time and it starts. That's what you hope, but it doesn't always happen. You know, things break down, things break, you fix them. And to me, you know, to a lot of people, that's not ideal. It's not what they want. They want the car that looks different to everybody else's. putting up with everything else is not quite really what they want but for me it's like that's the character that's the character of that bike you know it really feels alive like I always say

you know let's talk about um for example triumphs versus BMWs vintage BMWs BMWs BMWs such a good job of those bikes that even a 50s one is quite refined and can go on a highway at 70 miles an hour and do a great job they're really smooth and you know they're beautiful to look at they ride great they're reliable they're smooth everything fantastic i don't particularly like them because they are too refined like i get on a triumph which triumph is my you know my one of my favorites you get on a triumph and that thing you kick it over and there's something about it the vibration everything else it just feels alive you know it's there's something about it it's like it's actually alive in its unrefined nature it's raw yeah it's raw yeah it's raw yeah so

BMW is refined. Yeah, totally. And, you know, anybody that's ridden a vintage BMW, I'm sure, would agree with me. And anybody that's written a vintage triumph would like the agreement as well. Yeah, I think it's just the unrefined nature of it. I get pleasure from it. It cars and bikes, you know, it's something about, and just even, especially with like the Baja thing, I think I've got a Bonneville kind of fantasy as well that it's kind of relive in the past.

You know, what I see is the heyday of motorsports or car design or motorcycle design. You know, that to me has been lost over the years with technology and things like that. You know, everything now, I mean, nobody can say that this is not true, but everything now looks the same. you know even bikes cars you can go and buy a sports bike well you can barely tell the manufacturer other than the color of them you know whereas back in the 50s and 60s you knew straight away that's a BSA that's a triumph that's a Harley Davidson you know that's the that's I just love it like um it's just it's just part of who I am now I guess there's no going back and what's your take on the people who are willing to ride subject themselves to the punishment

of a vehicle from another era as their primary mode for a bucket list adventure. I mean, like, that's saying something. Like, you could do these things a lot easier on a modern bike and be a lot comfier. Yeah, I mean, yeah, definitely. On our trips, and I think the reason that we still do our trips is the people. The people we've met over the years, whether they've done one ride with us or 10 rides with us. The people are just fantastic.

They've obviously got something a little bit wrong with them. You know, obviously include both of ourselves in that, I think. So, you know, the kind of crazy thing is actually, is they're from all walks of life, all ages, you know, male, female age differences, political differences, backgrounds, you name it, they're all from a different thing. And when we come together, we've got this one passionate in common and all that other stuff goes to the wayside. And it's really fantastic. It's just like I say the people, 99% of the people on our trips, even more than that, have just been fantastic people.

that we and some of them are now you know lifelong friends um and not just with me and my wife jami but with with all the other people on the trip you know we have guys that come back year after year and it's um you know hugging and and back slapping and all that kind of stuff and just real pleasure to you can see that how happy they are to see each other um and and to go through another you know five days and a thousand miles because our five day rides are a thousand miles and we're a five day rides are a thousand and we do a three-day that's 500 or around about there. You know, and they know that these guys, they might be on the bike still 10, 30, 11 o'clock at night sometimes.

You know, breakdowns happen and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, I've been out there with those guys every time it's been that late. And they just embrace it. It's amazing to see. The attitude and camaraderie amongst these people is just amazing. It really is. And it's something, whatever it is inside them, they're just great people and they love riding these bikes.

And, you know, it is a challenge. I think that's the other thing. Like people want to challenge themselves generally. Well, these guys do anyway, clearly. So, you know, they come for a challenge and they do get it. We don't make it easy on them. Maybe people enjoy communal suffering, you know, whether it's the hot weather of this place or, or the cold weather of that place or the rain or what have you

or your team loses all the time, maybe communal suffering and getting through an experience that's difficult together forms a bond, I don't know. I think it definitely, yeah, you're right. That's for sure true. And it definitely does form that bond between the guys and girls. And yeah, I just,

I think especially I think character gets revealed in difficult circumstances that's when it's easy and it's going well and that doesn't really reveal any character but when it gets difficult when the going gets tough yeah when the chips are down

yeah that's when the character gets revealed yeah and these guys you know always say it like the other thing is the people that come on our trips are of mixed mechanical background some people can't change the light bulb some people have rebuilt the entire bike

top to top to bottom engine included everything you know some guys are been riding 30 years 40 years 50 years and some have been riding a year you know some of our trips

especially some of the shorter ones there's got there's people that haven't been really off road too frequently to be honest and we embrace everybody embraces them if you've got a good attitude everybody on our trips embraces you if you're slow if you bike brakes if you're too fast if you whatever as long as you have a good attitude everybody embraces you and if you break down somebody else's tool role is out before

yours and ready to fix it and get it going you know it's um it is a kind of community like a micro community of people that want to challenge, have these bikes and actually want to ride them. You know, they don't just want to go to the local bike meet or the coffee shop or, you know, for a quick whip around town. And not there's anything wrong with that. You know, I'm all for whatever people want to do with their bikes or cars. But these guys really want to challenge themselves and actually put these bikes to the, that's what they're built for.

That's what they're built for, exactly. Like, you know, Yamaha didn't make the XT-500 to go to Starbucks. They made it to go on trails and, you know, create enjoyment. And that's exactly what these guys do on these bikes. They take them for what they were intended for in 1974 or whatever, and they use them. And some of these bikes come onto the trail fully restored, and they don't leave that way, that's for sure, you know.

So good on those people for getting those bikes ready and really riding them. Here at Slow Baja, we can't wait to drive our old land cruiser south of the border. And when we go, we'll be going with Baja Bound Insurance. Their website's fast and easy to use. Check them out at BajaBound.com. That's BajaBound.com, serving Mexico travelers since 1994. Big thanks to my new sponsor Nomad Wheels.

They stepped up and sponsored the Slow Baja Safari class at the Nora Mexican 1000, and I don't know if you've seen the pictures, but Slow Baja is running a set of 501 convoys in utility gray, and they look pretty damn sharp. They were a little shiny. I will admit that. They were a little shiny when I got them installed at Basil's Garage just before the Norah Mexican 1000, but after, I don't know, 3,800 miles of Baja dirt, they look perfect. They really do.

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In fact, the entire trip really is spectacular. I think we've hit. Hit it out of the park. Yeah, we've certainly touched all the bases, for sure, of northern Baja. I feel like anyway, you know, there is other areas that we obviously couldn't cover. But, you know, even just coming out at San Felipe, Diablo Lake is obviously quite, you know, if you've raised down there, it's quite iconic. Iconic, yeah.

Just blitzing across that thing is a lot of fun. Or going very slow across that thing, should I say. Which is what we'll be doing. That's exactly what we'll be doing. You know, and you've got the mountains in front of you. I can't remember the range name, but, you know, they're just right there. I think the highest point in Bahar is there as well. Yeah, we saw the observatory of San Pedro de Matur there.

And, you know, that's, I'm, don't quote me, folks. David Keir, I'm going to get this wrong. 10,000-ish feet, right? Yeah, something around there, yeah. Yeah, so you're staring into these beautiful mountains as you're driving across the lake and then take it away. Yeah, and then we actually go up into that range and, you know, across, effectively make our way across the west coast.

Yeah, not to Mike's Sky Ranch, but right by it. Yeah, right by it. And those roads are just fantastic and up into like the pine forest up there. and, you know, through the valleys, through the mountains and stuff, going over to the West Coast, and then, you know, we're dropping down towards... Well, we drop into Valle, Trinidad for some fabulous tacos, so that was, that's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. You know, and then making our way to the West Coast and down, and, I mean, I don't know how many places.

is you can drive down the beach. San Catene, yeah. We're heading down the coast into San Catene. So we've left Terra Peninsula and San Catan or south of San Catene. And we've had this fabulous trip out into the wilderness there, beautiful coast. We're right there. It's protected lands. We've got Nathan from Legends Overlanding, has made that fabulous connection.

for us for Terra Peninsula. And now we're heading on the road towards Catavina. Yeah. Yeah, and we're heading up into the hills, first of all, and on some magnificent trails with some amazing views, and then dropping back down into Santa Rosalita. Santa Rosalita, yeah. And Sinatra and Sanitas, your old friend Hayden was,

mashing the names all the way up and down the peninsula. There's a lot of Santas. Let's just say that. I can't remember them all quite yet. Exactly. Santa Rosalita. I'm getting there. And then, you know, on a way to Catavina, we're into the cactus fields and the rock fields, which are just, I mean... It's iconic Baja. Yeah, when you think of Baja. That's kind of what you think of. I'm expecting, you know, Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner to go ripping through there. Well, we definitely saw some roadrunners this week.

We did. We didn't see Wiley. But the roadrunners will hopefully be there because that's really cool to see. And then we've just got a great camp spot, you know, off the beating track in amongst the cacti and the rocks and just be spectacular, really. The funny thing is before this trip, I did not know that you had this rock thing. Yeah. I'm a big fan of the rocks. Was it from Nathan?

because I know he's like rock, he's rock, he's crazy. I mean, the dude is absolutely obsessed with rocks. He's literally as rock crazy as you can get. What was that bell rock that he just kept dropping to hear it? I mean, it's like a, it's a huge. It was like a three pound or three foot wide rock, and he just kept dropping into here, go ding. Yeah, we would, ding.

I thought we were moving that thing out the way, but apparently we were just playing it. So, you know, 160 degree heat. Maybe we should move it or maybe we should play it. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, so Catavina is so special, so incredibly special. The terrain, the cave paintings, the boulders, the cactus.

We spent a lot of time in that area, and I think the trail that we ended up landing on is stunning. And the campsite is stunning. Absolutely. We had a couple of camping options down there, and we spent an extra day just in that area just to try and get it right and kind of do the area justice and the time we had to spend there, you know. And I think we did it. I think we nailed it. Yeah, I agree.

I agree. Then another dry lake and back, we took a, we took Punta Fanal the hard way, I would say. Yeah, we thought we had a, what looked like a, from above. From space. From satellite view, looked like a really great road over the mountains to Punta Finale. It turned out to be a more of a rock crawling expedition. It turned out to be a dry river or creek. Turned out to be a dry creek full of boulders.

Yeah. It looked gray and lovely from space. Yeah, which a lot of them do. And yeah, the Raptor did amazingly. But, you know, I had no preconceived, ideas of how the Raptor would do in that kind of terrain. And it was actually fairly amazing. So fair play to Ford for that.

And I think honestly, I'm going to say that in the skilled hands of our driver guide, Nathan Stewart at Legends Overlanding. I mean, this guy threaded that thing through a pretty narrow space over the incredible obstacles. And I have a little bit of Marlon Perkins on this one. You know, I said, I'm going to stay in the Jeep while Jim Russell's the Anaconda. You guys are out there throwing these huge boulders around. I'm nursing a hernia.

And you guys are throwing these boulders around in 106 degrees. I'm just like, this could go really wrong. Yeah. And luckily, it wasn't the right road. We're not going to use it. We learned a lesson, but it went really right. We're not going to go into. We saved a Polish uncle.

who was showing his niece visiting from Poland the beauties of Baja and got his sequoia stuck up to the axles. And Nathan yanked that thing out with his kinetic recovery ropes. But that was another great treat. They bestowed a beautiful bottle of tequila on us and a couple of cold ones. And we were happy to get all of that and got on to San Felipe. And again, I think our route is pretty dang spectacular. So I'm going to recap starts in San Felipe in a hotel on the 15th, October 15th for driver's meeting.

The event starts the morning of the 16th. We're heading west and we're going to make a counterclockwise loop around the peninsula, west, south, east, north, back to San Felipe. And we'll have what did how many nights of that? 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, camping. catered, beautiful chef prepared meals. Fantastic dirt. Great people.

Old rigs, 1993 and older or something that looks like 93 if it's on four wheels. 1980 and older for bikes, but the bikes are already sold out. So you can't come on this trip, but you better book soon for next year. Yep. 2024 is already on the website. It's on the website. And we're going to wrap up back at a hotel in San Felipe. so everybody can collect their trucks and tow rigs and anything that they may have left there

before they head north. Where's the best place for folks to find out about you and what you're doing, Adam? They can hit the website up, which is www. speeddilux.com or one word. Or you can find us on Instagram, which is the actual vintage bike shop is Speed underscore Deluxe, and the vintage rides are under vintage... 1,000, which is vintage the word, 1, the number, and 1,000 the word. And that'll all be in the show notes. If you want to find out about bringing your vehicle, and I'd love to talk to you about that.

Let me know soon because those spots are booking up, but it's old trucks, 1993 and older, or something that looks like a 93, so your Land Rover Discovery guys, you probably qualify defenders if you're willing to do it. if you've got a Gen 3 4-runner, come on, you can do that. FJ 80s, you're in,

let's go. But bring out something old. Let's have some fun. We've got Tim and Kelsey coming and Tonto, their FJ40. Shout out, Tim and Kelsey at Dirt Sunrise.

We've got three or four FJ40 signed up now. We're looking for some scouts. We're looking for some classic Broncos. Bring out the old stuff. Slowbaha.com slash adventures if you're interested in that. Speed deluxe or one word.com.

Speeddeluxe.com, slowbaha.com slash shop if you're ready to pull the trigger. And again, Adam's side is already sold out at speeddilux.com, but you better get on there early. Sign up for that Colorado trip or sign up for Baja next year. Oh, Baja, is Colorado already sold out. See how it works there? You better get on early. Get to know Adam because he's a little picky. He vets his guys closely, but get a classic bike, get onto that website, and we hope to see you in Baja. next year on a motorcycle and this year in a classic four by four or your 9-11 safari or sam hurley and

your e-36 safari all right well adam thanks it's been an awful lot of fun i'm going to miss you tomorrow man i've had six solid days of machaca with you every morning yeah no exactly it's been a great time so i'm looking forward to getting back together in uh october i'll see you in october all right buddy we did it I hope you enjoyed that conversation with Adam. Our trip's going to be something really special. So if you've got a vintage vehicle and you're thinking about jumping in, do not hesitate. Give me a call, shoot me a DM, do something, and let's talk.

All right, if you like what I'm doing here, folks, you know what you need to do. The folks with the tacos jingling in their pockets, you got to drop one in the tank. You got to, you know, it takes a lot to do these things on the road, meeting people where they are. bringing in these stories, these, you know, insightful and intimate. I hope they're insightful. I know they're intimate. But it takes a lot to do these things in person, and that's the only way I really want to do them. And so if you're enjoying it, please, please drop a taco in the tank. And if you don't have any tacos jingling in your pocket, I get it.

Drop a five-star review. Say something nice on Apple or Spotify. You can leave reviews at either place now, and that doesn't cost anything. Doesn't cost anything extra to be nice, as my dear old mom used to say. And while you're over there at Slow Baja, making your donation, you can always cruise on over to the Slow Baja store and pick up yourself a new hat. And we've still got some sweatshirts there. We've still got some white t-shirts. Bigger sizes, black t-shirts are there.

And, you know, I appreciate your repin. I really do. I really, really, really love seeing photos that people send me to say, Hey, I was at Pike's Peak. I saw a guy wearing a slow Baja t-shirt. Oh, I was at the Baja 1000. Dude was doing an interview wearing a slow Baja hat. I just love that.

I really do. I'm trying to keep Baja slow, you know. Poco, a Poco, one piece of slow Baja merch at a time. All right, well, Mary McGee, I'm going to quote Mary McGee's pal. We're going to get out of here. Mary McGee's pal, Steve McQueen. And he's a Baja lover. He made a lot of movies, spent a lot of time racing around in the dirt

when he wasn't making movies. And he said it. Baja is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. You know, I'm a minimalist when it comes to Baja travel, but the one thing I don't leave home without is a good old paper map. My favorite is the beautiful, and I mean beautiful, Baja Road and Recreation Atlas by benchmark maps.

It's an oversized 72-page book. It's jammed with details. It brings the peninsula's rugged terrain into clear focus. Get yours at Benchmarkmaps.com. In fact, get two. One for your trip planning at home and one for your Baja rig. And while you're at Benchmarkmaps.com, you've got to check out all their other atlases. I think they're up to 17 now, including British Columbia.

They've got folding maps. They've got digital maps. They've got giant wall maps. My favorite, and I've got it up on my wall right here at Slow Baja HQ, is the 30-inch by 46-inch Baja wall map. It's so great to just look at one thing, you see the entire peninsula there. I love it. Benchmarkmaps.com, slowbaha approved.

Huge news, folks. Huge news out of Ensonata this week. Cervisaria Transpenincillar has added Slow Baja to the summer tap list. I can't believe it. That's right. You can walk right in to Cervasaria Transpenincillar and order yourself a cold and frosty slow Baja on tap. And that's what I'm going to be doing this weekend. I'm heading to Baja this

weekend to pre-run for the Slow Baja Vintage Expedition. I'm going to stop right there in Plaites de Ensenada right next to the Hotel Corral and Marina. And I'm going to walk right in and I'm going to say, hey, bartender, I want a Slow Baja Cervasa and he's going to pour me one. And Colin, the good-hearted owner of Cervasarea Transpensular, said he's going to drop a couple paces in the tank for every servesa he sells this summer. So you buy yourself a cold, frosty, slow Baja. beer. That helps Slow Baja stay on the road, bringing you these great podcasts. It's win-win. All right. I'll see you down there. Surveyseria Transprensular, limited time only this summer. Get yourself a Slow Baja on tap.