Triumphrat

stanegoli · 01-11-2007

Anybody on the forum following the Dakar Rally?

We get a half hour daily roundup on Versus channel. Amazing event. Toughest race in the world I think.

Normandy · 01-11-2007

Tough indeed, caught a few minutes of it the other day. Bogged down in sand . Ugh.

Nochicanes · 01-11-2007

Robby Gordon has won three stages so far...pretty cool.

daily dakar

steventhechef · 01-11-2007

We get 30 minutes @ 6.00pm (like I am home then)!!

I have to record it tonight.. Tough ar5ed guys and girls. I don't think that I could do it, as much as I would like to!!

Motorcycle Dakar fatality

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ruscook · 01-11-2007

I watched Charlie Boormans Race to Dakar late last year, (there was a bit on Andy's death in it). It is an enormously hard event. Talk about extreme sports... I have a lot of respect for the skills and the sheer drive of guys (and gals) who enter this type of event, but I still think they're absolute nutters!

Russ

steventhechef · 01-11-2007

Russ, Race to Dakar - (the Charlie Boorman one) just finished last night up here in Qld.

Great adventure. One of the English females to finish was swigging out of a bottle of champers saying "This is a 150,000 (U.K. pound) bottle of champagne !!"

Pain, suffering, phenomenal endurance and expense!!

I can't help thinking of the rich Western tourists pouring through some of the poorest African nations sometimes though!! .

stanegoli · 01-11-2007

Nice to see an American doing well on a bike - Blaise currently running in 5th on a KTM (which, judging by the line up, is the bike of choice on Dakar).

:wink:

Catenaccio · 01-12-2007

A kid from these parts - Kellen Walch - competed for KTM two years ago. He was the 1st American in 20 years to win a stage. The Dakar is totally to the wall!

ruscook · 01-12-2007

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I can't help thinking of the rich Western tourists pouring through some of the poorest African nations sometimes though!! .

I bought the DVD (with the Dr, Tornado etc DVD) at the Sydney Bike Show. I sat and watched it in 2 sittings :-)

Yeah, the tourism thing is a real two edged sword isn't it. Does bring money into those countries with the full circus following the racers, but it must seem a whole other, totally unreal or surreal world to the locals.....

Russ

mkchev · 01-12-2007

BMW used to have a cool add years ago (after there bikes had won a few) went along the lines of -we have taken your new bike for a wee test ride then a pic of a BMW in the rally. I liked it a lot, guessing the pope didn't.