after many visits of cuba by car (I always fly over, take a car and travel around) I want to visit the sierra maestra by enduro; especially the mountains. But I cannot find one in cuba
You've got an idea? Or have I to ship my own bike (125cc Jawa UL Enduro) to cuba to do so? The cuban embassy told me, that for particulary import only such small bikes allowed... upto 4 weeks it shouldn't be a problem; the costs may be similar than to rent one. (the last 50cc scooter by transtur cost $140 per week +insurance).
I don't know about enduros but there were five or six well maintained, small bore motorcycles for rent at the Brisas Sierra Mare. $30 taxi ride from Santiago.
Speaking of bikes, I saw a news report that showed how Cubans are modifying bicycles into a sort of moped. It allows for a cheap and easy way of transportation. . .but of coarse they are illegal and the wonderful Cuban government does confiscate the bikes claiming they are unsafe, which they are, but you could argue the same point against the Castro government.
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The problem is, that I want to go into the mountains of Sierra Madre; a 50cc hasn't enaugh power to go through this swamp I want to go to
Normally they bring tourists with old russian army trucks to this places, but if you want to stay overnight with a tent, you don't knew if (and when) a truck will arrive to collect you. So I need a bit of power to go there. A light 125cc or a medium class 250...350cc Enduro will do it; below this - no chance. Better I rent a horse then.
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Oh contrare mon ami!
I raced off road for many years in Canada and the US as well as two ISDT"S {International Six Day Trial's} , Spain 1970 and Poland 1967. I can authoratively tell you that there are many 50 cc off road bikes that will handle any terrain that is thrown at them, besides, they are light enough that you can carry them out of a bog.
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I don't know what the story is with biking through the Sierra Maestra. But I have heard that the roads are not that great. Probably best just to rent a bike for a day trip...you'll see and do all you want. Then you'll want to be back in your car, no doubt.
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Okay, I didn't wrote, that I am a 90kg man with additional 20kg baggage.
And the other thing: we aren't talking about highend racing trial bikes who cost some ten thousend dollars, but about bikes for rent in CUBA. And these 4-5 hp bikes (combined with low octane fuel) over there are for sure not strong enaugh, aren't they?
I was driving motocross (not professional, but for fun) with self modified 125cc aircooled CZ bikes, with truck spring tail and pneummatic Jawa fork. They had real good power... but I was young and had a weight of 20kg less
Now, I haven't the money to buy a 300 hp Corvette to drive 65 mph at the US highways. No, I have to use my 6 y.o. 125hp VW Turbodiesel Station Wagon, modified to use plant oil (cheaper than diesel here), and have to drive my top speed of only 190 km/h here at our highways w/o speed limit The car doesn't run faster, so I always have problems to use the left track, because some Mercedes or other highpowered cars are faster than my oldie.
Yes, we Gemans real poor people, aren't we?
But wait - why come some Americans over here to buy their Porsches and BMW Roadsters directly in Germany? And even want to drive then himself at the highways to the Bremerhaven Port? Hmmm, very economic people, or what?
By the way - did you read my initial question? I didn't ask for (useless) sarcasm, but for knewledge about cuba. If you can't (or don't want) help me - it's okay. But generally an answer would be nice.
I simple want to spent the whole 3-4 week holiday on a bike that takes me anywhere I want to go to. Will start in Varadero Airport, go along the north coast to the east, along the south coast back. With a 3-4 day trip into the mountains. Sleeping in a tent at an airbed (better than every casa particular). No need for double bedrooms and jineteras I found 2 bikes, but these are Suzuki LS650 choppers, not useful for that what I want to do...
[This message was edited by dagobert on September 22, 2004 at 06:29 AM.]
My response was not sarcasm, it was an answer. You're on your own.
Did you read MINE in another thread where I suggested you remove the anti-semitic tenor of your post? You may be from Germany and all, but there are some who remain sensitive to and resentful of what you insinuate about certain ethnic groups and their supposed control of the world.
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I have always percieved Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" to be virulently antisemitic. Why it is/was required reading in Anglophone high schools in Canada is a mystery to me.
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To portray one as an aggressive capitalist is one thing, and even stereotyping is another, but to place ownership and control within the realm of an ethnic group is reminiscent of the themes that overcame Nazi Germany. And that was what the post inferred.
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At the risk of being politically incorrect, "Merchant of Venice" is great literature, as is "Othello" "Huck Finn", "Tom Sawyer" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" and others that were written long before these more sensitive days. Most people would only read these is school. To not be allowed to read them, i.e., ban books, is perhaps a greater violation of people's rights and dignity, because where do you draw the line? "Inhereit the Wind" could be seen as anti-Christian and mocking of its fundamentalists, should it be banned?. These books don't propigate hate per se, but reflect the tone and tenor of their times. Thomas Jefferson is considered a great liberal statesman, yet he owned slaves (unlike G. Washington, he did not free them in his will). Do we ignore his other accomplishments and ban him, too?
I tried to declare in the other article, what is antisemitic and who is calling what antisemitic. This word is overused; even every joke some people call so.
Sometime your political correctness won't allow you to eat a "hamburger". How you can bite into a German? It is discrimination! You are antigermans and racists!
If you make a similar joke about a pope, it is a absolute different thing. Who knew me (i.e my friends in Russia, Israel, Egypt and Kenia, Even in Cuba, all races and religions) knews, I am not. I have my point of view about politics of different states and the role of religion in it; may be because i studied this stuff in younger times ( one of my professions is "Diplomstaatswissenschaftler"; a diploma grade I cannot translate so easy. You had to study it at the military univerity, if you will get a higher rang. And 2 countrys in this case are most interesting for me: Israel (because I habe relatives there) and the USA (because they support Israel). Now you can think again, why I am so interested in the jewish religion and their role in US... and who you are calling an antisemit. By the way - my family name is ended bei "-stern" Guess where the source is...
No, ryj, it wasn't an anser for my question, to tell me that we had an little political dispute in another thread. An anser imho will be: "I don't knew" or "I don't want to help german racists and antisemits".
But what YOU wrote, wasn't a good sample of your high knewledge about cuba. Even in the marco polo travel guide every man can find better hints And as you see in my articles, I knew cuba too. My opinion was, that you are an exile cuban, who has relatives in cuba and real knew how to handle this. I was wrong...
No problem, I will fly over with my own bike. A Transport ship will take the bike with him for only 500 EUR both directions. So I have to pay insurance only in cuba. Bit more expensive than to rent one, but at the end I knew the bike, and I knew that it is 100% okay, running and checked.
What I believe, if I read your articles: you are a bit of racist and nacionalist too, but you try to hide it behind your sarcasm and with attacks against people like me. Isn't it? Or show me that I am wrong.
But wait - you are a such intelligent - tell me your definition of "antisemitism" and tell me, when it is allowed to write critical comments of the role of various religions in goverment and economics... i am very curious about YOUR Interpetation Especially, if I found out, that is no racism to call a state "evil" in US, if there are religious moslem leaders in goverment; but it isn't allowed to do so if it is a christian leader (i.e. one sometimes over here called Jesus Bush)... Or why it is no racism and nacionalism to call a president of a Nato Member (Schroeder) a Nazi in US journals. Or is it racism to call a guy a antisemit even if you never seen him and never talked to him, only by one article in bad english, of that you even don't knew the sources?
Ah, and don't forget to declare the role of CPD in the votes of the US president, the release of 4 cuban terrorists and the cuban embargo; an interesting theme too.
No, ryj, you are not a "fine" guy. Not better than others, even if you think so. You are a nacionalist (see your CPD Statement) and a racist (your anti-german tendence is visible).
Facit: If it means that I am a racist if I have "the A$$ in the pants" (german proverb) to have a own view on the Israelian politics and the US politics in the world - I am proud to be one.
>>> I think, therefore am I. <<<
[This message was edited by dagobert on September 23, 2004 at 03:22 AM.]
@O-Man: Even Jules Verne, Carl May and other authors you can call racists, if you read the books. May was a fanatic christian, never accepted other religions. Wrote not only the well knewn indian books, but some christian books too.
Or look at Star Trek (the first stage) - the good guys are always humans, the bad guys are mostly E.T.; a latent racism, isnt it? In the first stage they even revoked some black guys for main roles cause of their color... Or you ever seen a black staarfleet captain in the first stage?
And what's up with the film "made in america" with Whoopy Goldberg? It shows the racism in US clear and loud - from both sides. All are talking about white racism; about black or other kind of racism nobody is talking... THIS IS RACISM!!! The most rapper are very racistic. So MTV indirect is a racist TV channel...
Now I smoke a very nacionalist cigar - 100% cuban, NO mexican or even sumatra tobacco. In this case I am a ultranacionalist.
(Isn't it easy to use these words? And isn't it frightening HOW easy it is?)
Guess where the source is...
