October 2008

Just off for four weeks in Morocco in my new Tenere with plans to collaborate with Peter B from Bikershome Ouarzazate on a special one-off 14-day desert tour next Spring with the option of using locally rented bikes (KTMs) or your own machine.

You either ride/van down with your bike or fly directly into Ouarzazate and pick up one of Peter's rentals. We then set off along the Algerian borderlands into Western Sahara, on to the Atlantic - and back via other tracks. It won't be the usual cushy fly-in tour. We want to get a feel for the desert so will be camping most nights with a hotel every three days or so. I'll be riding the tour on the Tenere or a local rental. Full details on the Bikershome website.

Some pictures (left) from the Desert Riders 2008 Algeria tour here. Simon and Karim will be doing a talk on the tour at the HU UK rally in July.

Read Dan Ward's account of the 2007 tour here as well as an article in the January 2008 issue of Trail Bike Magazine plus some painful feedback here.

And of course there is the original Desert Riders dvd (right) as seen on TV around the world including National Geographic Channel.