Slightly Modified X-Challenge

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Thought some of you might like to have a butchers at this bike. A team of 3 will be participating in the Alternative Dakar Raid, the Heroes Legend. Starts in Paris on Saturday 8th March and finishes on 22nd March at the Lac Rose Senegal.

To see whats going on there are 2 links here for anyone whose intersted.

www.heroeslegend.com

www.rainbowraiders.co.uk

The HL site will have Etrack systems so you can actually follow our progress. Bike is number 19 and support truck is 219

Archiegser
 

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Good luck and tell us how you get on with the XChallenge

Mine gets slightly modified every time I ride it ......................usually not for the better:augie:blast
 
Good luck Archie:clap

Yi'll support will needas much luck as they can get with a discovery:eek:


I'll monitor yir progress jammy sod:thumb
 
Good luck and let know how you get on with the bike, it looks great:thumb
 
photos are great good luck and please post more photos when you finish your adventure.
 
Good luck Archie :beerjug:

I'd be really interested to hear how it went when you get back :thumb2 -you will do a report for us, won't you ;)

How the 'ell did ya get a large tank :nenau They appear to be in very short supply :(
 
THE HEROES RETURN

Well it's all over now and normality is creeping back into my life.

This is just a short note really to let you all know how it went a more detailed report will follow on completion.

Suffice to say the bike ran faultlessly and never missed a beat. Sadly though the rear suspension choice for the 3 short arses that were riding it wasn't up to the hammering it was to receive and this finally caught out Joe Twigg on the second from last day. He buried the bike in a dune and could not recover it after flatening the battery trying to start it. Fortunately we came along an hour or two later found him under a tree and got him on his way again only to cover 100 metres before he tried to fly off another small dune with a drop off 1.5 metres. The suspension bottomed heavily kicked back and put Joe on his arse. Sadly that was the end for Joe ans it turned out he fractured two vertibrae numbers 11 & 12 in his spine and we had to have him airlifted out to hospital. Thankfuly though he still has full use of all his limbs and he is hopefully going to make a full recovery.

The bike then had to be trucked out of the dunes as the rally had already moved ahead at a pace you would be hard pushed to believe (more anon) the bike was then transferred to the sweeper truck and that was the last we saw of it. The truck and another one got bogged down in a Chott (dried lake) on the following days stage and they are still there as far as I know. We await further information.

The engine pulled like a train and I didn't get it out of shape that I can recall, it would happily pull 5th and 6th gear in the sand at full chat and in fact was the only way you can actully ride sand and fesh fesh. You don't steer the bike with the bars they are only for holding onto. You as everyone here must know steer the bike through waiting the pegs and it works well. The last time I had to ride a bike in this maner was in the Falklands in 85 but the method and confidence soon returned.

I'm getting into this to much for the moment so will stop here. I will let you all know more in time. For the moment I have a train to catch in Calais for a job interview in Leicester tomorrow so adeu for now.

Archie
 
Paris to Dakar Heroes Legend

Quick question for the moderators. The article I'm about to upload is about 4 Meg or 44,000KB An I do this in one hit or would it be better staged.

Thanks

Archiegser
 
Heroes Legend the Alternative Paris to Dakar Rally

Ok folks I realise one file would be too big so I've cut it down into manageble chunks I hope..!! o I haven't even my cut down files are too big. Mods need some help here please otherwise this may never se the light of day on this site.

My average file size is around 3Kb including pictures do I really need to chop them down to the indicated 122.1 kb some are much bigger and there is 16 days worth to cover.

I will answer questions as and where I can of course should there be any. I hope it gives you an idea of what it is all about.

Archiegser
650 X-Challenge
 
Archie, if you can upload your pics to a photo hosting site like Photobucket and then use links in your article that'll get around the 122.1kb limit.

I'm sure there will be a moderator along shortly :rolleyes:
 
Archie gser said:
Ok folks I realise one file would be too big so I've cut it down into manageble chunks I hope..!! o I haven't even my cut down files are too big. Mods need some help here please otherwise this may never se the light of day on this site.

My average file size is around 3Kb including pictures do I really need to chop them down to the indicated 122.1 kb some are much bigger and there is 16 days worth to cover.
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Are you talking about Movie files? Maybe you can upload them to google/youtube?
If you have a lot of photos, then it may be easier to bulk upload them to a specialist photo site (see http://www.ukgser.com/links/ - Photo Hosting section) and then Link to them in a post/thread.
 
Thanks for the information. I included the pictures in the right up so that it had some chronolgy with pictures.

Guess I'll have to try it the way I've been advised or none of you will get to read or question.

Thanks

Archie
 
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