He never moved in the tracking system while the others did. Is not in any of the scratch results.... anyone ???
Is Plumb out ??
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Jim-Adv said:
Yeah, I saw that, but in the standings he ain't there...
No he's not
Ouarzazte – Tantan
4th January 2006
Team Touratech rider Nick Plumb awoke at about 4am ready for another long 350km special stage. After a bad crash on yesterdays stage plumb was expecting to have to ride todays stage with a badly damaged bike.
“I woke up in the morning and found that overnight my mechanic Bernie had worked a miracle” said Plumb “I have been very lucky that Battersea BMW let Bernie have the time off to come with me, he has done an amazing job so far”
Unfortunately today would be no luckier for Nick as 40km into the special stage he had his first crash.
“I didn’t know why I crashed” said Plumb “ but I later found that my front tyre moose had started to break up and looking back this is probably what made me crash. I wasn’t going too fast at the time so I got away unhurt”
After the problem with the Moose and yesterdays crash Plumb decided to take it easy for a while and started to follow a truck along with a few other bikes. This proved to be a bad decision as the truck got hopelessly lost and the group ended up approximately 10km off course. The truck crossed over some very rocky ground to get back on track and most of the bikes including Plumb followed. Unfortunately, due to the rocks it was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead and while still trying to keep up with the truck Nicks bike fell into a hole damaging his front brake hose which knocked out his front brake and also damaged his throttle hosing, gear lever and brake pedal.
“I couldn’t believe my bad luck after yesterdays crash” said Plumb “The other guys who were also following the truck helped me to get my bike out of the hole and after they did we got back on course”
“I rode by myself for a while and about 50km from the end of the special stage I saw one of the Race to Dakar bikes. It was Simon Pavey who was my team-mate for the last three years Dakar Rallye. I noticed on his bike that he had no front brake calliper and tried to shout to him that I had the same problem. I don’t think he realised that I had no front brake either until we both tried to brake!”
The former team-mates finished the rest of the stage together. At the end of the special stage Nick fuelled up and noticed that his moose had now got very bad. Shortly into the 282km liaison stage the moose finally gave up and when entering a corner his tyre left the wheel rim.
“I was only doing about 50-60km when it happened” said Nick “ had I been doing 120km, which we normally do on the roads, I don’t know what would have happened but at that speed I managed to slow it down enough to crash into a ditch without any serious damaged. A local police car was following me at the time and they stopped to help me. I’ve never been so happy to see a police car. Within what seemed like minutes another police car and the Race to Dakar car had turned up and they all helped me to get the tyre off and I fitted an inner tube and set off again”
Scared that the wheel rim may have been damaged Plumb rode carefully for the rest of the liaison stage worried that the tyre may come off again. 40km from the end of the stage the sun went down and it was then that Plumb noticed that he had also damaged his front lights in the first crash of the day so had to follow cars and trucks to the end of the stage.
“I have to be up at 1am tomorrow” said Plumb at 10pm local time “so I’m leaving the bike with Bernie again and hopefully he’ll work his magic and I can have a better ride tomorrow”
After a second bad day for Plumb showed why he belongs in the Dakar by managing to battle through and again finish as the top BMW rider for the fourth time in five stages leaving him in 93rd position overall ahead of Race to Dakar riders Simon Pavey (126th), Matt Hall (113th) and Charley Boorman (115th).
Contrary to the comments made at the end of last nights (4th Jan) Eurosport coverage Nick has not pulled out of the Euromilhoes Dakar Rallye 2006.
Ouarzazte – Tantan
4th January 2006
Team Touratech rider Nick Plumb awoke at about 4am ready for another long 350km special stage. After a bad crash on yesterdays stage plumb was expecting to have to ride todays stage with a badly damaged bike.
“I woke up in the morning and found that overnight my mechanic Bernie had worked a miracle” said Plumb “I have been very lucky that Battersea BMW let Bernie have the time off to come with me, he has done an amazing job so far”
Unfortunately today would be no luckier for Nick as 40km into the special stage he had his first crash.
“I didn’t know why I crashed” said Plumb “ but I later found that my front tyre moose had started to break up and looking back this is probably what made me crash. I wasn’t going too fast at the time so I got away unhurt”
After the problem with the Moose and yesterdays crash Plumb decided to take it easy for a while and started to follow a truck along with a few other bikes. This proved to be a bad decision as the truck got hopelessly lost and the group ended up approximately 10km off course. The truck crossed over some very rocky ground to get back on track and most of the bikes including Plumb followed. Unfortunately, due to the rocks it was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead and while still trying to keep up with the truck Nicks bike fell into a hole damaging his front brake hose which knocked out his front brake and also damaged his throttle hosing, gear lever and brake pedal.
“I couldn’t believe my bad luck after yesterdays crash” said Plumb “The other guys who were also following the truck helped me to get my bike out of the hole and after they did we got back on course”
“I rode by myself for a while and about 50km from the end of the special stage I saw one of the Race to Dakar bikes. It was Simon Pavey who was my team-mate for the last three years Dakar Rallye. I noticed on his bike that he had no front brake calliper and tried to shout to him that I had the same problem. I don’t think he realised that I had no front brake either until we both tried to brake!”
The former team-mates finished the rest of the stage together. At the end of the special stage Nick fuelled up and noticed that his moose had now got very bad. Shortly into the 282km liaison stage the moose finally gave up and when entering a corner his tyre left the wheel rim.
“I was only doing about 50-60km when it happened” said Nick “ had I been doing 120km, which we normally do on the roads, I don’t know what would have happened but at that speed I managed to slow it down enough to crash into a ditch without any serious damaged. A local police car was following me at the time and they stopped to help me. I’ve never been so happy to see a police car. Within what seemed like minutes another police car and the Race to Dakar car had turned up and they all helped me to get the tyre off and I fitted an inner tube and set off again”
Scared that the wheel rim may have been damaged Plumb rode carefully for the rest of the liaison stage worried that the tyre may come off again. 40km from the end of the stage the sun went down and it was then that Plumb noticed that he had also damaged his front lights in the first crash of the day so had to follow cars and trucks to the end of the stage.
“I have to be up at 1am tomorrow” said Plumb at 10pm local time “so I’m leaving the bike with Bernie again and hopefully he’ll work his magic and I can have a better ride tomorrow”
After a second bad day for Plumb showed why he belongs in the Dakar by managing to battle through and again finish as the top BMW rider for the fourth time in five stages leaving him in 93rd position overall ahead of Race to Dakar riders Simon Pavey (126th), Matt Hall (113th) and Charley Boorman (115th).
Contrary to the comments made at the end of last nights (4th Jan) Eurosport coverage Nick has not pulled out of the Euromilhoes Dakar Rallye 2006.
dazzer said:Eurosport say's " Plumb is out "
86th overall according to this!
http://www.eurosport.com/home/pages/v4/l0/s239/e11728/standing_lng0_spo239_evt11728_dsc429.shtml
Blue Sweeper said:
I watched the coverage last night and was gutted when I heard that. Glad to hear it was a mistake, I hope Nick had a better day today. Come on the Brits !!!
....on the coverage last night they made a specific statement confirming that Plumb was still in 
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Nick Plumb finished 69th today according to Eurosport(6/01/06)
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