From: Champ on
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:37:12 -0700 (PDT), darsy <darsyx(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>shite-old-Landcruiser's what you want for that.
>
>Though for Africa, you'd need the ob. machine-gun platform.

Toyota Hilux, then
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From: Andy Bonwick on
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 02:18:43 -0700 (PDT), darsy <darsyx(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Jul 2, 9:56�pm, ogden <og...(a)pre.org> wrote:
>> �wrote:
>> > So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest
>> > stupidity is a proposed desert rally.
>>
>> > So I booked a day here:
>> >http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/
>>
>> > Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well.
>>
>> Hoping to do that in a month or two for the same reason if Andy pulls
>> his finger out. My off-road experience amounts to a day of riding trails
>> (and falling off) in Fuerteventura and I'm not sure that's going to
>> suffice.
>
>I'd be interested too.
>
Is that interested as in going to Morocco or doing the offroad
experience?

I'll phone them next week because I want to know if they have bikes
suitable for those amongst us with a shorter inside leg measurement
and if I'm asking for Adie I might as well ask for you as well.

From: darsy on
On Jul 3, 4:26 pm, stephen.pac...(a)gonemail.com wrote:
> darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > shite-old-Landcruiser's what you want for that.
>
> What about a shite old hilux like this:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/8963323(a)N05/4757219141/

that'd do it - though as I said, need someone with a welder to mount
the gun platform on the back.

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From: Andy Bonwick on
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:20:07 +0200, Dom�nec
<domenec.sos.valles(a)gmail.com> wrote:

><stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
>news:1jl0s9y.43s1au1aacip1N%stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com...
>
>> So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest
>> stupidity is a proposed desert rally.
>
>Er, this is serious or in the same wavelength of the Africa Run?

Serious. We're planning on doing the Tuareg Rally in early 2012.

It'll be easy.
From: darsy on
On Jul 3, 4:25 pm, ogden <og...(a)pre.org> wrote:
> darsy wrote:
> > On Jul 3, 2:58 pm, frag <ne...(a)ukrm.co.uk> wrote:
> > > In article <1jl22sj.1dabmz4xqbe6tN%stephen.pac...(a)gonemail.com>,
> > > stephen.pac...(a)gonemail.com says...
>
> > > > Dom nec <domenec.sos.val...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > <stephen.pac...(a)gonemail.com> escribi en el mensaje de noticias
> > > > >news:1jl0s9y.43s1au1aacip1N%stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com...
>
> > > > > > So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest
> > > > > > stupidity is a proposed desert rally.
>
> > > > > Er, this is serious or in the same wavelength of the Africa Run?
>
> > > > About as serious as Andy ever gets.
>
> > > Has anyone else said they would like to go along on 4 wheels rather than
> > > 2?
>
> > that's more tempting.
>
> What, a week in a car in the desert with Frag?

Christ no - I didn't mean to imply that.

> I thought champ was the one who'd had the bang on the head.

Oh well, I had a seizure - that's nearly as good, isn't it?

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