I spent more than two thirds my life in California and I’ve never been to Mexico. I’m not interested in visiting border towns or corporate beach house getaways. I wanted to see Mexico, far from boarders, high-in-the sky Mexico City, with a bike between my legs, 7,350ft above the sea. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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First day on the bike, I decided to take charge and plan our first ride. I had no idea how to route us to Teotihuacán, so I did what most would do and let Google route us there. Little did I know, Google routes you by bike through some of the most dangerous areas of CDMX. Later, I found it to be easier to do what the locals do and change the settings to car and ride on the toll roads and freeways.
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Erik Otto on the first leg of the trip. We rode 70+ miles round trip to Teotihuacán.
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Sketchy public roads to Teotihuacán. I love these billboards that litter the roadways.
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Teotihuacán, Pyramid of the Sun. The best part about this is that we walked to the top in bike cleats and spandex.
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Two expat shredders Safa and Pete.
One of many videos I shot while chasing Safa around Santa Fe back into downtown Mexico City.
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Dude had no time for my tourist bullshit.
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I love scenes like these.
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🙂
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One of our last rides while on the week long trip: a long climb up to Los Dinamos, an old hydro-electric system where electricity was used to power textile mills.
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Final sprint after a two hour climb.
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10,000ft above sea level. It’s really hard to breath up there.
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Ana Puga setting up before our Mexico City loop. Peep the video below.
3 comments
those vids are psycho!
what allen said
What Josh said