Dakar

[pritch]

I s'pose some of you are still on holiday? In the past there has tended to be a big build up to the Dakar - then when it starts almost total blackout. Well it's not like the bikes are coming past the cameras every two minutes or so as at a normal race.

Lyndon Poskitt is a Brit riding in the Dakar and he is filming as he rides and he has a small team to edit his clips and get them up on the 'Net each day. He is entered in the Malle Moto class which means he has no mechanics, he does everything himself. Currently he is lying second in the class which is where he finsihed on his previous attempt.

At the time of writing I think he is about to ride stage 11 which will be episode 16. His coverage is the best look we have ever had at the Dakar and apparently his clips are getting more views than the official coverage. You'd expect Brits along the route to support him but it looks as if even the locals are holding up signs with his name now.

A search on Youtube for: Races to Places Dakar '18 will find his clips, each of which is about ten minutes long.

Or you can start at the beginning (usually a good place to start).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUwxaf0dvk

[SVboy]

I have been following him. Really interesting. Seems like a straight forward event for him so far, if such a thing is possible!

[Kickaha]

I started following him last year, but I used to watch whatever I could find from the Dakar since the eighties

Hubert Auriol is still my favourite, first guy to win both car and bike classes

Oh yeah as much as I like bikes the Trucks are the most fucking awesome class out there

[actungbaby]

[QUOTE=pritch;1131081313]I s'pose some of you are still on holiday? In the past there has tended to be a big build up to the Dakar - then when it

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I used to read the bike mags about . i read them cover to cover austrilian motorcycle news . for the racing coverage. i have no idea why . i have intention ever to try it myself. but just like to read. hated computer mags
Though there my other hobby. so dam boring.

But on topic seems lost bit of its shine since went part africa .
Watched those two on you tube 4x4 mentioned english guy used race bsb.
privateer. last name hunt . thats just starting get into top 40.
do they still have that finkle aussie desert race. the dakar in my imagtion
whould be one i love to try . just so like extreme . having to do your own.
bike , even car guys think bike guy having to do all nav repairs etc . well non factory ones. just the adventure of it all and the challenge . if you did at a slow pace like i whould be still bloody cool. even if you where in support vechile. mind you i thought joining french forgien legion . be awsome to found out how brutal it is .still at the time i just wanted make my life mean something and make a diffrence.

[pritch]

[QUOTE=pritch;1131081313]mind you i thought joining french forgien legion . be awsome to found out how brutal it is .still at the time i just wanted make my life mean something and make a diffrence.

Sorry, the only former Legionnaire I knew passed away recently so I can't get any first hand information for you.

[actungbaby]

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Sorry, the only former Legionnaire I knew passed away recently so I can't get any first hand information for you.

Geez bet he was pretty intresting Chap meet dutch guy the storys from the war when he was a Kid . amazing getting smokes and choclate out crashed aircraft.