Our focus is
on motorcycles, motorcycle photography, and motorcycle travel stories.
I travel all over the world with a camera, and I have a
great collection of moto photos. We've put our favorite links and
our newest stuff below, but
if you want to see links to all of our MotoFoto pages, it's
only a click away! Just about everything on here
is for sale...and if you need something you don't see, give us a call and
I can probably get it for you. If you want to drop me a line just
to say hi, shoot me a note via e-mail.
My name's Joe, I'm an engineer, and I guess
I'm what you might call a serious rider. I've ridden my motorcycles
in a lot of places, and I've been doing this for a long time. My
favorite riding is in Mexico's Baja peninsula, and my favorite motorcycles are
my KLR-650 Kawasaki and my California Scooter. I've ridden
both bikes all over, and just to be able to say I did so, I rode my little
150cc California Scooter all the way down to Cabo San Lucas and back last
year. I write a bit (including work that's appeared in Motorcycle
Classics, Rider, RoadBike, Easy Riders, and Iron Horse
magazines, and more than a few books). But that's not what this site
is all about. It's about the motorcycles, the travel, and the
photography.
Enough talk...let's get to the good stuff!
Motofoto
Videos (ah, these are fun....we'll change and update them
regularly based on what's new and what's fun!) I filmed this one
using my Flip video and an improvised helmet cam mount while riding my
150cc California Scooter!
Here's a recent street scene in Bangkok (hey, I told you we get around)...grab
a cup of coffee, kick back, and watch this! The Thais use scooters
as taxis...this is cool stuff!
A cool shot from Bangkok...
Wanna see
more? Hey, no problemo...just click on the photo above or right here!
We've got a lot of favorite
authors, but Melissa Holbrook Pierson is right at the top of the
list. Her newest motorcycle book is The Man Who Would Stop
At Nothing, and the book signing tour is right around the
corner. You can learn more about it here!
The
adventure of a lifetime!
My buddy Simon Gandolfi on a
CSC motorcycle somewhere deep in Baja!
Imagine the adventure of a
lifetime...running Baja's entire length on 150cc California
Scooters!
And doing it with an incredible crew,
including J. Brandon, Arlene Battishill, John Welker, and world-renowned
international motorcycle traveler Simon Gandolfi (that's Simon in the
photo to the left).
This was an incredible trip designed to
wring out Steve Seidner's resurrection of the venerable Mustang
motorcycle.
"Take these bikes down there and try
to break them," Steve said.
We tried.
The bikes just kept on running!
Police
Motors!
A
couple of genuine motor officer heroes...check
out this page to learn the story about how these two fellows saved
hundreds of lives in 1928!
Check out our
published work on Newcomb's
Ranch, the
Rock Store, the
Griffith Park Sidecar Rally, Death Valley, South
Dakota's Black Hills, Baja, Joshua Tree National Park, the Marcus Dairy, Buchanan's
Spoke and Rim, and other cool moto events and destinations in Motorcycle
Classics magazine. Motorcycle Classics is a
wonderful magazine with superior photography and great writing...you can
subscribe to it here!
We also have a story in the January 2010 issue of Rider magazine
(another outstanding motorcycle magazine) on police motorcycles, and it's
great.
Check out this very cool
California Scooter Company Classic customized for the 23rd
Annual In-N-Out Charity Auction. In-N-Out and California
Scooter are two first-class organizations. You can read about the
story behind this magnificent motorcycle on the blog
I write for the California
Scooter Company. These are awesome motorcycles...the latest
market niche being developed by a front-running, trend-setting
organization. Yep, I ride one...you can read about it on my blog,
and you can see more photos of these great machines (and the story behind
them) on the Motofoto California
Scooter page.
We love
motorcycling in Mexico, especially Baja. Check out a few of my
favorite trips...
Baja
2009, a quick blitz down to Guerrero Negro to explore ancient missions
and other sights well off the beaten path. It was great; a real
Indiana Jones trip. We
did this trip on Kawasaki KLR-650s -
one of the world's great motorcycles!
Baja
2008, a quick 1700-mile buzz down the Sea of Cortez coast on two fast Triumphs. The desert was in full bloom
after heavy rains...great riding,
great scenery, the whales...Baja offers some of the best motorcycling in
the world.
Wow, another 2008
trip to Baja...this time racing down to and then being chased back up
the peninsula by Hurricane Norbert! That's the Las Tres Virgenes
volcano in the background, with Norbert's clouds looming ominously
overhead.
We uploaded images from the 1997 Mexico moto adventure. What a
trip that one was! The
photo you see here is of a Huichol Indian woman, a direct descendant of the
Aztecs! We grabbed this photo in Guadalajara, a great city.
The above are my
favorites, but all of the Mexico trips were great...here are a few more:
Baja
2007...a road trip on a Triumph in 2007. This page
has some great whale photos!
San
Felipe, a 2006 weekend trip on the KLR 650 Kawasaki through
northern Baja.
San
Felipe 2004, a quick weekend sprint on a couple of red-hot sports
bikes.
Baja
2004, a quick 1550-mile motorcycle trip to Mulege and back on the
Suzuki TL1000S.
Baja
2003, another whale watching trip with my daughter and three of
her friends on spring break.
Baja
2000, a trip to see the whales with the girls and a couple of
friends.
Take a look at our police
and military motorcycle photographs, including this 1936 shot of a
State Trooper in Keyport, New Jersey. We have great shots of vintage
military and police motorcycles, as well as modern high performance law
enforcement motors.
Wow, look at this!
This is Guayasense, Lord of the Transit
Commission of Guayas Province in Ecuador in the 1930s, on his Harley
police motorcycle. This vintage photo and many others came to
us courtesy
of Capitano Jose Paredes Desiderio, who heads Ecuador's
Presidential Motorcycle Escort. Check out the great
photos Captain Paredes sent to us!
Whoa, is this ever a cool
story! How about a new motorcycle company here in America that uses
nostalgia, high quality, and incredible styling on a new line of Scooters
that sell for just $4995? You have to check out our California
Scooter Company page, and then visit the official California
Scooter Company website!
We went up to Santa
Paula to see an Italian motorcycle exhibit, and discovered a very cool
little town. Check out the murals in this great community!
This is a great event
showcasing an incredible collection and
display of vintage motorcycles, and nearly all of them are still being
ridden. Check out our photos of these impressive machines!
Here's a quick 350-mile Sunday
ride up to Big Bear and then on to Joshua
Tree National Park with the local Triumph club - a great day and a
great ride!
I grabbed my old Minolta X-700,
hopped on the KLR 650, and headed for the dirt roads up in the San
Gabriel Mountains north of my home. I'm pretty lucky
living close to the San Gabriel mountain range, and the KLR is the perfect
motorcycle for its dirt roads.
One of our favorite trips....to
the Annual Rattlesnake
Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Four days of hard riding to see
something unlike anything I'd ever encountered!
That's a close up photo of a Western
Diamondback rattler, one of many we grabbed on this trip.
Feel like going for a motorcycle
ride? How about the Southern California Motorcycle Club's 5,000-mile
Three
Flags Classic? This is one of the best motorcycle runs in the world,
spanning (as the name implies) three countries: Mexico, Canada, and
the United States. Check out our photos from this awesome
adventure!
Everything on this site is copyrighted by
MotoFoto.cc.
Check out our published work
below. Click on the pictures to learn more about each book...
The
California Scooter Company - the Mustang mystique in a modern
motorcycle. These things rock! How exciting are
these bikes? Imagine a kid in a candy store with a
credit card...and take a look at this
video!
GoGo
Gear, fashionable protective apparel for women. This is a
great company with a great line.
Autobooks-Aerobooks
is a great automotive and aeronautical bookstore. Visit their website
for great deals on great books!
Heading into Mexico? BajaBound
offers great deals on motorcycle insurance. It's the only one we
use!
