This one week event is the creation of Austin VINCE whose first round the world ride in 1995 was called “Mondo Enduro”. This was in the days before anyone had heard of “adventure motorcyling” and had not been seriously attempted before. Austin and his brother with a few other mates set off on Suzuki DR350s …
Category archives: La Vie
Post VINCE 2021
After the VINCE 2021 we planned to stay in the same area and ride more of the trails and even re-ride some of the ones we had already done. When concentrating on navigation and finding checkpoints (CPs) there is no time to stop and take pictures or admire the view so this was an opportunity …
VINCE 2021
This is the third year that Dougie and I have entered this event. You can read the tale of last year here:https://v2xs.com/the-vince-2020/ The VINCE is the creation of Austin VINCE (one of the first people to ride around the world) and the event is called the V.I.N.C.E. or Very Interesting Navigation Challenge Event. It takes …
KTM 950 Super Enduro R
Oh no, not another motorbike blog post !Yes I’m afraid so… I bought this bike last summer and it is still a work in progress but I thought it was time to post something about it and the progress I’ve made. History The 950 Super Enduro R is a limited edition bike produced by KTM …
Trek-OZO Electric Mountain Bike
Welcome to my latest mini-project – building an electric mountain bike… Why would I want to do that….? I’m surrounded by loads of great off road trails, ideal mountain biking territory Unfortunately there are a lot of steep and rocky climbs which are just hard work I’m a “petrol head” so already have plenty of …