Thread: Race to dakar on ABC

And on the previews for the next installement they broke another one ! mind you i'm not suprised as they are hollow cast alloy and the roads are ****e.
Stil not a good advertisment for BMW though.

I caught the show tonight for the first time.

I know I couldn't have ridden 40km let alone 400km with a dislocated thumb and two broken bones in my hand!

Ron

I'm guessing with all that gear bolted onto the car and on top of the car and in the car it is WELL over it's limits, especially on those roads !!! Surprised BMW agreed to it !!!

I've been watching it since it started.

It's a laugh... although it's a shame they swear all the time.

He actually used swearing well for the first time. He was flying in the support plane with his broken arms and he said if he had to fly they would be f$%#$ed. I turned to the wife and said now isn't that the truth! First time they really needed to swear

My wife was amused by the fact that it had English dialogue with English sub-titles --- and they wrote a censored "f*****" when he actually spoke the word.

Ron

I liked the comment ' we're doing 130, and these cars are blasting past us like we're standing still' ...All in blinding dust!! Craziness.
We had to share the special stages with bikes during the '92 Safari,( was it really 14 years ago???) and in some of the sandy / rutted desert stages we came over dunes to find a few flaked out riders just lying there pinned under their immense BMW's,KTM's or Cagivas.
The strain on them was unreal, getting off and running beside there bikes UP soft sand dunes for 100's of metres, in 40 degree heat for km after km...Crazy. I dips me hat to em.

Seeing some of those Bowlers ( Not another hat pun...) in the background doesen't half make me drool and wish I had the finances to do another OZ safari or even a Dakar...

JC

I missed it! Will have to catch it next week. What time?

Originally Posted by George130

I missed it! Will have to catch it next week. What time?

20:30 Thursday on the ABC