Meet Team Green in the sun!!

Watch the stone!!

We’re still enjoying Ouarzazate and, after a good check-ride yesterday, it seemed remiss not to do the same again today… Just to make sure the bikes were completely ready for the customers!!

The sunshine was scorching & there wasn’t a cloud in the sky as we blasted along some great tracks, the bikes nailed the the ground, into a river-bed & then into some rocky sand. Check-out Mick’s shadow above to see what happens when you hit a rock a high speed!!

How do you deal with it? “Keep it pinned”!!!

Keep it pinned!!

The bikes are so balanced that the speed we could carry was impressive & we all had massive grins on our faces as we got back to town to clean the dust off the bikes!

While you’re down there!!

After hearing all these adventures & as the customers start to arrive & see what they’re letting themselves in for, we thought it was about time to introduce the team…..

Team green!!

First it’s the one.. The only…..

Mick!! He is the big cheese, the grande fromage, the head honcho… You get the picture!! 7 times competing in the Dakar, he brings the bikes, the team & the clients here to guide him around his spiritual home…

He’s always laughing & can eat more cake & chocolate than anyone you’ve ever met….!

Mark is the essential fix-it-all mechanic, no job will defeat him!!

Ex-army he is always ready with a sarcastic comment but he is there quicker than a flash when things go wrong. A fantastic asset to any team.

Gwion spends his life riding bikes, speaking fluent Welsh & doing impressions of everything!!

He’s ridden the dunes with Mick many times now, seeing them ride together is pretty impressive! He is also mad as a hatter!

Mel’s supposed to be the organised one of the tour! Oh dear!!

I’m doing this blog, as you may have guessed! I’m a road rider at heart but am doing far more off-road now & am loving it!! Can’t wait to christen my new Kawasaki in the desert!!

Red nose Kawasaki

As you may have seen from Gwion’s photo we have a bit of a red nose them going on!

We finish our 2nd tour on red nose day so we thought we had better raise some money!

The four of us are carrying red noses with us at all times & are looking for every opportunity to snap photos with them. We’re looking for ideas of things to do & places to wear them so do give us ideas on our facebook page.

And please give generously here

Red Nose Team Green!!

The customers have just started to arrive & tomorrow morning we set off early for Camp Chicaga, 250km riding!! As the name suggests these are nomad camps so I won’t be able to update the blog but we shall try & keep updated briefly via our brilliant website man – Ian.

The next day is 230km to Tafrout, again this may prove difficult to update from, but rest assured, there will always be big updates as and when we can!

For now, we are looking forward to meeting the rest of the customers & getting out on 16 green bikes tomorrow!! Brilliant!!