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Dakar(ish) 2013 begins Sat!

Started by Slide Panda, January 02, 2013, 08:54:22 AM

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Slide Panda

January 02, 2013, 08:54:22 AM
First stage kicks off on Jan 5.

Still wish it was Paris to Dakar. But Chile has some gnarly terrain and will make for plenty of challenge.

-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

Bick

#1
January 11, 2013, 06:56:29 AM
Can't they come up with a more appropriate name? [bang]

Is there really something that unmarketable about Lima-Santiago Rally?!!!  P-A-C Rally?!!!

Anything to reflect what it really is!

That aside, it is an amazing event!
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

ducpainter

#2
January 11, 2013, 07:04:09 AM
Quote from: Bick on January 11, 2013, 06:56:29 AM
Can't they come up with a more appropriate name? [bang]

Is there really something that unmarketable about Lima-Santiago Rally?!!!  P-A-C Rally?!!!

Anything to reflect what it really is!

That aside, it is an amazing event!
That would be similar to MotoGP or WSBK being called...

"The circus that Dorna tries to push on us as the pinnacle of racing"

The truth doesn't always work when you're selling. ;)
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#3
January 11, 2013, 11:08:25 AM
can't blame them for not wanting to re-brand... besides, maybe they're hoping to move back one day (if the locals will quit "harassing" the competitors).
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OT

#4
January 11, 2013, 07:20:04 PM
 [popcorn]  I missed seeing the Dakar rally last year cause I kept turning on the TV to watch the live broadcasts from West Africa   ;) ;D

duccarlos

#5
January 15, 2013, 05:22:11 AM
If they come close to Santiago, I might call in sick for a day or 2.
Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

Bick

#6
January 15, 2013, 06:40:25 AM
Quote from: duccarlos on January 15, 2013, 05:22:11 AM
If they come close to Santiago, I might call in sick for a day or 2.

The final stage ends in Satiago on Saturday.  Is that close enough for you?
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2013/us/route.html
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

duccarlos

#7
January 15, 2013, 08:05:04 AM
I'll give you one guess as to where I'll be on Saturday.
Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

zooom

#8
January 15, 2013, 08:42:25 AM
Quote from: duccarlos on January 15, 2013, 08:05:04 AM
I'll give you one guess as to where I'll be on Saturday.

drinking beer while sitting on a couch with 1 hand in your pants like Al Bundy watching reruns of old WRC races?!?!?!?
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duccarlos

#9
January 15, 2013, 09:30:22 AM
Quote from: zooom on January 15, 2013, 08:42:25 AM
drinking beer while sitting on a couch with 1 hand in your pants like Al Bundy watching reruns of old WRC races?!?!?!?

You just wasted your one guess.
Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

OT

#10
January 15, 2013, 06:50:31 PM Last Edit: January 15, 2013, 06:52:40 PM by OT
Seeing some of those finishes on TV, with spectators nearly/being run over by a mud-caked bike/truck doing 100 mph on a two lane dirt street thru the heart of a town, my guess is you won't be anywhere near the end of the route unless you have a death wish.

duccarlos

#11
January 16, 2013, 10:02:52 AM
I'm breaking out my red cape and playing "toro" with the big ass trucks.
Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

Bick

#12
January 16, 2013, 10:07:32 AM
Quote from: duccarlos on January 16, 2013, 10:02:52 AM
I'm breaking out my red cape and playing "toro" with the big ass trucks.

Fitting.

It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

zooom

#13
January 16, 2013, 10:22:32 AM
Quote from: duccarlos on January 16, 2013, 10:02:52 AM
I'm breaking out my red cape and playing "toro" with the big ass trucks.
Quote from: Bick on January 16, 2013, 10:07:32 AM
Fitting.



pics/video or I'm calling shenanigans!!!!...and that truck is crazy coool badass!
99 Cagiva Gran Canyon-"FOR SALE", PM for details.
98 Monster 900(trackpregnant dog-soon to be made my Fiancee's upgrade streetbike)
2010 KTM 990 SM-T

kopfjäger

#14
January 17, 2013, 06:07:05 PM
Quote from: zooom on January 16, 2013, 10:22:32 AM
pics/video or I'm calling shenanigans!!!!...and that truck is crazy coool badass!


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