COACHBUILT COOL
Oct 21, 2020
4 minutes
By DUNCAN QUINN
“A CHALLENGE FOR THOSE WHO GO, A DREAM FOR THOSE LEFT BEHIND.”
It’s 1977. French motorcycle racer Thierry Sabine is missing in action in the Libyan desert on the Abidjan-Nice Rally.
“I realise that my situation is uncomfortable, difficult,” Sabine later wrote. “Two days later I have no compass or clock, which broke down in a fall while trying to find the lost route. It is now two days and two nights that I am lost in the desert, under a sun that begins to make me lose my mind. The total absence of shadow is an oppressive sensation, which engenders a feeling similar to that of
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