Sun, 05 Jul 1998 22:59:29 +0300
- Message No. 3528
From: Phoebus Katsanos
Subject: Moto rally news!
Moto Rally is over.
Great but/and very easy, 130 km's off-road, one timed special, one trial
special and a lot of dust.
Because of the fear of injurys the organisers canceled some of the timed
events and it looked more like a crazy tour off-road than a real race,
but the fact that there were a lot of people that didn't have off road
experience and some with a second person on their bike made them take
this desision.
But all this doesn't cancel the fact that the 2 Africa Twins coming
together on the first 20-30 people after they started last of all
motorcycles with only ATV's behind them!!!!!
Africa Twin is really a great bike, that you only have to put on a
couple of off road tyres, and you have an off road machine that can and
in fact did pass some XR's 400 and a few CR's (!!!), not to mention all
the XT's.
Then all I did was put the mirrors back on, and made a really relaxed
trip back home!
Top this if you can on anoter motorcycle!!!
Things I will remember is the ATV that passed us going with the speed of
light, a guy on an XR250 AND HIS WHIFE doing very good time (we could
and did followed his pace, but we had to go faster than we did untill he
passed us) and a fall I had (trying to pass the other Africa and seing
nothing because of the dust, blindly following him on a curve and
falling on a big hole that made the front suspention use its full
length) and the sound of stones hitting my helmet when I went too close
to an XR 600 who went full throttle!!!
I think I ll do this again next year!
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