Three riders on three scooters, completely unsupported. There was a camera crew that was supposed to follow us for a TV production for the Travel Channel, but they didn't like our pace, and wouldn't do the offroad bits we decided to go for - we lost them in Morocco and stumbled upon them a few more times on the tarmac bits - but we carried all our own stuff all the way... Half a scooter in spares, two ten liter jerry cans of fuel per scooter, lots and lots of impossible to get two stroke oil, half a field hospital, massive ammount of tools, two sets of wheels per scooter, camping equipment, and half a change of clothing and no usual "single personal luxury item"... Tools saw heavy usage from daily break downs, including three burned clutches and a shock absorber (luckily we were prepared for this). Traveling this fast, we needed to carry all the likely to go wrong bits of the scooter, which pretty much meant everything... meaning we were really heavy

Due to our choice of bikes, we had to start earlier than everyone else, and we allways finished much later - usually after dark. We lived mostly off of dry bread with apricot jam and water, this as we often had to leave before breakfast service or shops opened for business, and there would be no time to stop for any kind of service or cook ourselves, and we would often also arrive after places had stopped serving dinner or were cleaned out by our competitors. I think we had one lunch that was not bread, which we regretted as the delay it caused meant getting lost for hours in the sahara after dark. We even ate psyllum husks in massive ammounts to make sh1tting a quick job. We had to do a lot of camping, and saw few showers as our late arrivals usually ment no more hotel rooms.

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