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I'd think you'd wanna go for the poor gringo touristy look.
Very good point. There are quite a few on here that say white folks are the safest group of all. So why would you want to go down there and maybe look like you were someone that you weren't? Quite a silly thing to do if you ask me.I don't get your thinking here, did you imagine all those beheaded people were Canadians?
If they are after you, then you won't outrun them, period. So any worry of the sort is a pointless one.Is 200cc enough for Mexican highways? I'd want more displacement to outrun narco goons.
So how do you stay inconspicuous in Mex? What bike do you ride? How do you dress? I was often mistaken for being Mexican when I was working as a bus boy. So I think I might be able to pass under the narco radar.
wear a pair of this ones
Bah! Not fooling anyone with those. They're not made out of old tires.....
($550, can you believe that???)
Yep. That's the conclusions I'm coming to also. Complacency, comfortable with route.Trying to stretch his trip and went too long? With family in Monterrey it's possible he had grown complacent with several sage passages; got too comfortable with his route.
A couple of weeks ago I talked with Rufus Maxfield from the San Antonio area. He told me about their last trip in Mexico in March. They were coming into El Fuerte where they had some problems. One person robbed and 3 of them ended up with bullet holes in a windshield, gas tank and saddlebag. Fortunately no one got hit and they got away. There were 5 of them in a group. All very experienced Mexico riders.
Were they riding and shot at or did they come out to find their bikes with the holes in the shields.