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Read the article in ON this month and stick with the tour groups. You will need your passport as a minimum, pesos, Mexican auto insurance and your pink slip for your bike or a letter from the lien holder. No place to travel alone but gorgeous scenery....[/url]
Anyone ever joined any of the group tours to Mexico that I've heard of ?
Am interested in info, for maybe a late autumn trip. Is it safe?..cost,..requirements?,.etc. Any information appreciated.
Ron
I think you are flat wrong about the gas. It is my intention to be helpful & informative, not at all to be considered a caustic reply to the above! There is no need for booster.I have several miles in Mexico under my belt & have never had a Pemex gas issue riding my R1150R. I always use the 87 there which has no ethanol at this time but that may change , I read.If anything my bike runs better, not worse!!! I have never read of a gas complaint in many years of Mexico stuff on ADVrider where Mexico is a daily topic. Perhaps a few times something from a very out of the way low volume station but never an issue . Jug gas can vary, obviously & I've used some of that too with no problem.Get pesos from an ATM after you enter. Do your visa there, after you enter. Do your TVIP online and/or after you enter. I do mine online then print it out and use my Visa after I enter. Mex insurance -shop around online as the underwriters are Mexican companies & some here in USA charge more or less for the various policies.The actual "use" of the policy will be thru the Mexican underwriter via a toll free # if something happens. They are not! sue happy in Mexcio like the USA. Cheaper done in advance. I carry my KY bike registration with me in the form of a free copy my county clerk runs for me each yr at tag time. I scan & email to myself, copies of the title,registration , insurance & drivers license. I also have a "fake" but sort of real scanned/laminated KY license I carry with the "real" in reserve if a cop there gets frisky with me or it gets stolen. I never do that in the USA.Read the article in ON this month and stick with the tour groups. You will need your passport as a minimum, pesos, Mexican auto insurance and your pink slip for your bike or a letter from the lien holder. No place to travel alone but gorgeous scenery. I am doing a 1000 mile ride ths summer in Chihuahua with a Mexican riding group in association with Iron Butt. Oh the gas is pretty bad as well so it is wise to take some octane booster. Check out the link below on travel tips to Mexico. It can be done just not as glamorous as you might think. And learn some Spanish or have a Spanish speaking rider with you.
http://www.asphaltratsportiv.com.mx/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=206&Itemid=473
Great post! thanks! Seems to be a problem to use your clubs website...http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=638662 Hello Ron, I am Don Stanley: "Official" Mexico Ride Leader for BMW MOA Club AZ Beemers #89; Arizona.
I first rode into Mexico in October 1968 on my 1964 Norton Atlas 750, just before enlisting in the US Army. Since then I have ridden every year into Mexico, except for the years I was overseas. Mexico is not as safe as it once was, but still safe!
For the shorter rides of less than a week, I organize our Mexico tours by myself.
For our longer Club Rides, such as Copper Canyon or going to the BMW Mexico Moto Clubs Rallies, we enlist Skip Mascorro of Moto Discovery to organize for us.
I've found out over many years that Skip can price out a package for us cheaper than I can. You can reach Skip at 1-800-233-0564 www.motodiscovery.com
www.losarcossonora.com If you are riding to the Mexican State of Sonora, I highly recommend you stay at Hotel Los Arcos de Sonora in Banamichi. This fine hotel is owned by AZ Beemers Club Members Tom and Lynn Matthews. You can talk to them at 303-838-6505 in the US and 520-777-1503 in Tucson. Really nice folks!
The PeMex gas is ok, where available. As long as you don't get Nova. Get Magna, or Magna Sin, or Magna Premium, and you are fine.
I don't even know if they still have Nova.
If there is no station, and you have to buy from someone, who has a bucket, or drum in their yard, then you take any chance. That is where the gas may be questionable.
dc
Great post! thanks! Seems to be a problem to use your clubs website...
Are you saying that he can get you into "nicer hotels" for less than a walk in? What price range are these lodgings to give me & others a notion? Having been there too, I know that I flat cannot afford many better hotels in Mexico-or the USA, for that matter. FWIW, given the "big scare" from the cable news and govt. there are plenty of vacancies there. Exception is on Mexican holidays and at a few choice beach destinations. otherwise lots of Mexicans & gringos just aren't traveling to Mexico these days. Believe me their tourism industry is hurting.
the pemex gas is ok, where available. As long as you don't get nova. Get magna, or magna sin, or magna premium, and you are fine.
I don't even know if they still have nova.
If there is no station, and you have to buy from someone, who has a bucket, or drum in their yard, then you take any chance. That is where the gas may be questionable.
Dc
Nova, KentuckyKid. I guess they say at one source it disappeared around the turn of the century. I didn't think I had seen it for some time.
dc