To me the things that stuck out in my mind was this.
despite the trained mechanics and backup vehicles, they had to abandon one of the bmws for brake failure, until a tech rep from germany was flown out to fix the ABS. so what chance have we mortals if we were to ride such a machine?
secondly, once they hit the real dirt roads (as opposed to stone roads unsealed) the bikes were just too heavy. I appreciate that they were necessarily carrying lots of gear plus themselves, but the lightweight two stroke ran rings around the top heavy Beemers.
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