MONGOLIAN ADVENTURE

THURSDAY 31ST MAY

Although Team Aus hasn’t landed in Mongolia just yet, some official proceedings started today for all of the media. Without boring you with all of the details, we sat through some briefings that took us through many of the processes that are in place for just about every conceivable situation you can think of.

The infrastructure in place for media alone is something to behold, but when we start talking about event support the numbers become very impressive very quickly. There are approximately 180 people that are part of this event, as well as 114 BMW R 1200 GS Rallye motorcycles, 34 support vehicles and a helicopter that follows the event each day. Take a second to think about those numbers and where we are and it makes your head spin.

Briefing completed, we had the chance to get on the bikes for the first time. Our R 1200 GS Rallyes have some very cool personalisation, including a sticker kit and a cast GS Trophy shroud. The media were put through an afternoon of rider training to get comfortable with the bikes and pick up some tips along