Day 6 Come on big boy

The big dune was the name of the game today, our last day in the Urg Chevi. Four laps round the dune the stright up it finishing reasonably early to get sorted out for the return journey north.

Five minutes after Geoff left he was back again with start button trouble, fixed that and sent him on his way. We sorted out the truck and one of the guys from the hotel decided to clean it with WD-40 which was nice while having Ant's American road trip cd blasting out the car park. Anyway set off to zoom about in the dunes just in time to get a text from Jeff wanting to get back in the hotel. Seems a quick go in the dunes with his broken collar bone led to a swift trip over the bars on the second one. Home for tea and medals on this occasion.

Once we had found our way through the dunes in the truck and had a good 4x4 seeion in the sand we got to the check point. It's a big dune thats for sure, Geoff's bike was red hot after the first lap so he called it a day, other Jeff walked over from the hotel to hand out and Phil was feeling a bit dickie with some undefined Moroccon belly issues.

Gordon manged to fill his engine with oil after landing upside down some where, one lap and two thirds up the dune. Stan was zooming about with no clutch and half power whilst other Gordon was having GPS trouble. Tamsin managed to get four laps in and then about a quarter way up the dune (a long walk to the check). Tone managed three laps and then about half way up the dune. Ruben did four laps and got the furthest up the dune, Liz did four laps and took the road back to the hotel. Stuart, Gordon and Stan were 10 minutes over time and only Stan tried the dune, about half was all his bike could manage. Jeff is preparing the amateur route for tomorrow so lets hope he stays on the thing this time.


The rally raid guys had fun and did well, Paul Round managed to bend his hydraulic lifter on top of the dune, so Derek drove out with a generater and an angle grinder to cut it off. Expensive business these cars.

So an inccident free day for us and it looks like everyone had fun. The bikes are beginning to look lived in and the field mechanics is getting better each time.

Right time to pack up and start heading home.