The bugger is doing it to me again. My arm is being subtly but firmly twisted.
There is some justification I suppose. We do have these heavily farkled and well set up DR's and I suppose it is a shame not to use them to their full potential, but he is talking about the really hard one now.
It's not cast in stone and we are talking at least 2 years hence, but it looks like this time the loop will be something like: -
Birdsville track, Oodnadatta track, Gunbarrel Highway (maybe all of it, including the abandoned section), the Canning stock route, Tanami track and the Simpson desert.
To do this we will have to: -
1. Carry at least 50 liters of fuel
2. Carry at least 20 liters of water
3. Carry food for 5 days
4. Carry shelter, sleeping & cooking arrangements
5. Have radio contact with each other
6. Have reliable Satphones for emergency use
and most importantly
7. Be able to safely ride at significant speed with 50 to 60 kg of luggage aboard, through very uneven soft sand with aggressive and sharp vegetation whacking the hands, arms and handlebars.
Shouldn't be a problem, eh?
Yeah, right! The last ride report I read about a group of guys doing something similar, one of them drove his right tibia out through the back of his riding boot.
God save us! I am seriously contemplating this!
What am I getting myself into?
I may not be a complete newby any more but I'm not far away from it.
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