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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 13:05 - 12 Jun 2005 Post subject: Charlie Borman & the Paris Dakkar |
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I'm sitting here watching a programme on Men & Motors about Charlie, and (I thought) his plans to take part in next years Paris Dakkar rally.
Bit odd on the part of M&M I'm thinking. Here is one of the worlds best-known participants on off-road & enduro touring, and they decide to help him train for the Paris-Dakkar by......
......taking hin to Ron Haslam's race school at Donongton for a day!
Interesting programme by all means, but relevant to Charlie's plans? I think not. ____________________ Sod falling in love, I wanna fall in chocolate. ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) |
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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 13:36 - 12 Jun 2005 Post subject: |
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I was watching it the other night thinking exactly the same thing!
Hmm, loads of tarmac on the Dakar........ ![Laughing](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 18:02 - 12 Jun 2005 Post subject: |
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Yeh can't really see how it would apply
I'd be happy if i managed to compete in the dakar and not end up dead, utter madness it is...
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t'was called full throttle famous on every thursday at 7pm:D jodie kidd rides the same bike i used to ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) ____________________ Bah Humbug |
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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 00:55 - 13 Jun 2005 Post subject: Re: Charlie Borman & the Paris Dakkar |
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I believe there are some tarmac sections; some on-road training might actually help if he's only an off road expert - though not quite the same on a desert-enduro bike . |
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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 00:57 - 13 Jun 2005 Post subject: |
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from what i read in the long way round book, think mr borman has been riding from a kid and knows tarmac fairly well already. both with it under his tyres and skiding across it on his arse
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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 00:59 - 13 Jun 2005 Post subject: |
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He wasn't exactly racing across Siberia though, was he? Any kind of competitive experience, especially taught (obviously on a racetrack) would help I should think, and there are bound to be some tarmac stages somewhere. It must take a lot of balls to do the Dakar Rally competitively on a bike, aiming to do well rather than just finish. People die more doing that than they ever do doing conventional road races from what I can tell. ____________________ I must not be a troll...
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