~drigo : evolution apprentice

Eco Motocross Adventures

~drigo said Nov 25, 2006, 10:59 PM:
 

Just came back from an awesome adventure in the south west of Java.

Not necessarily totally an eco adventure but one of those that inspires.  It was like we were in a movie.  An international group of guys and gals, riding through small streets and inbetween rubber and palm oil plantations through the mountains and down to the beach.

We stayed in a wooden villa overlooking the bay with gorgeous views of the bamboo platforms the local fisherman use at night. 

I had a vision of using these motocross bikes to work with the police at tracking illegal logging.  The country side is being changed and more and more plantations are springing up.  More and more trees are being cut down.  And some of this is definitely illegal, and some of the illegal harvesting of trees is in complicity with the security / authority bodies. 

One way to make an eco adventure using motocross bikes more of an ECO adventure :~) The tracks we discovered would be great for mountain biking too though!

The aspect of motocross riding that I love is the adrenaline… rushing through the dirt and having to maintain absolute full focus on everything coming at you… your brain working at a thousand miles an hour and being so in the zone that all other concerns, worries, questions, etc, vaporize and you're in the MOMENT. 

If they were solar powered and didn't make so much noise, that would be all the better. he he he… let's see if we can do that hmm? 

United Adventures, my eco adventure enterprise, is currently working on setting up these motocross adventures around West Java.  Visiting far off villages to provide needed medical supplies.