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Kawasaki KLX250S |
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By Magoo
I actually bought me a 2009 KLX250S, Kawasaki’s new dual-sport bike. For $4999, you get a lot; water-pumping four-valve motor, six-speed tranny, adjustable suspension, and a general orientation towards dirt riding that a lot of dual-sports lack. I’ve been buzzing around town a lot on it, but I wanted to take it up to the mountains to get on some single track.
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Magoo's Return |
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“Perhaps my best years are behind me, but I wouldn’t want them back, not with the fire in me now.”
-Samuel Beckett
On April 29, a Wednesday, after almost two months gone, I came out of Guatemala like a scalded cat. I rode it like I stole it. When at last I found a motel in Tapachula, Mejico around seven pm, I poured a cold gin and reflected on what had provoked such an instant and intense state of flight. I mean I was acting like a man possessed. |
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Magoos Mexico Part 3 |
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Breakfast of champions: Menudo, chiles, onions, lime
Story and photos by Brian Halton
On August 25th, at midnight I boarded a Mexicana red eye flight out of SFO that would have me landing in Guadalajara at dawn. From there I would hail a taxi for Tlaquepaque (ti-lackey-paki) where my old GS had been stored, and then once composed and rested, would set out for my next destination—the port of Vera Cruz, on the Gulf of Mexico. |
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