Anyone else ride the original Nevada Rally?

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by SafariBerg

That may be true but the same goes for the Australian Safari, heaps of red & green tape Octagon the organisers have to go through to make it happen, both at the government and local landholder levels

...................guess it's all about the will to make it happen.

There's a LOT of red tape here, Garry, unfortunately. I'm not an expert on the matter, but I've heard those in the know talk about land use impact studies and the like being necessary before the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to even consider permitting an activity on public lands. Anyone can see the trend of public lands closing to motorized use and surmise what the likely result of any such impact study would be.

The ridiculous total-lack-of-personal-responsibility/I'll-sue-you-for-any-old-damn-thing culture here is a huge hurdle in accessing private lands.

[SafariBerg]

Originally Posted by PackMule

There's a LOT of red tape here, Garry, unfortunately. I'm not an expert on the matter, but I've heard those in the know talk about land use impact studies and the like being necessary before the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to even consider permitting an activity on public lands. Anyone can see the trend of public lands closing to motorized use and surmise what the likely result of any such impact study would be.

The ridiculous total-lack-of-personal-responsibility/I'll-sue-you-for-any-old-damn-thing culture here is a huge hurdle in accessing private lands.

I sympathise greatly for sure, its the exact same reason we lost Day 1 of a 2 day event with the Yilgarn Rallye this year

[escuchamente]

Any other stories from these events?

[Hayduke]

Very very cool pics and thread.

[BigBearJoe]

Originally Posted by LUDO

dude! is that Charlie on the right??LOL!

That is Andrew Horton from Four Strokes Only from the San Fernando Valley.

[BigBearJoe]

Originally Posted by BigBearJoe

That's cool! The picture above is exactly the same as the one I have, just substitute me and my bike. Same perspective, same amount of air, same body position, same fine coating of dust on the bike.

Finally found my photo from the same location.

[BigBearJoe]

Originally Posted by BigBearJoe

That's cool! The picture above is exactly the same as the one I have, just substitute me and my bike. Same perspective, same amount of air, same body position, same fine coating of dust on the bike.

Finally found my photo from the same location.


Okay fine! Tim's body position looks way better than mine and he flew at least 10 feet farther!

[Strong Bad]

Originally Posted by BigBearJoe

Lining up for the prologue. Montgomery Ward sign in the background.

#83 is Damon Powell aka: Team Dual Dogs, great guy. I remember Andrew Horton working out of the bike junkyard over by Burbank Airport. I built a bunch of XR muffler end caps for him. What ever happened to Andrew??

[BigBearJoe]

Originally Posted by Strong Bad

#83 is Damon Powell aka: Team Dual Dogs, great guy. I remember Andrew Horton working out of the bike junkyard over by Burbank Airport. I built a bunch of XR muffler end caps for him. What ever happened to Andrew??

Seemed like Andy kept Four Strokes Only going for quite a while one way or the other. Not sure at all what he's up to lately. I pretty much never do Facebook anymore but he is one of my friends on Facebook, as is Damon, but I never really interact with him there.
Damon did the Nevada Rally twice. His preferred message board avatar is of him in a cool rear end drift at the 1994 Rally prologue on the ATK he got from the factory. Damon is another guy who loves long-distance rallies and doing big miles.
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[Baja Dad]

Let's bring this race back to life!!!!

Let's hit Casey with thousands of e-mails!!!
Let's get NORRA involved

[Gian]

I'm looking for Peterhansel and Orioli's bikes photos, from the 1995 editions... many thanks for any info

[TheDualDog]

Damon "Dual Dog" Powell here.

Yeah, that was an awesome race. Not sure if I have pics of Peterhansel or Meoni machines, but here are some links to pics and the video of the race on Motoworld I uploaded on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamDualDogs

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDualDog

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...6894841&type=3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teamdualdogs

[dentvet]

Awesome thread revival. I have been poring over some old map books and i saw this advert. i was about to start a thread asking about the history of this event when i found this thread. Google doesn't give much but it does show notifications from BLM regarding temporary closure of public trails for the race days. Must have been a blast!

[wrk2surf]

own a piece of the rally

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acerbis-Neva...item1c2e86c63f

[TheDualDog]

I wouldn't be caught dead in those jumper suits, Michael! Lol. That was the French and Italian thing to do!

Acerbis America was run by Franco's right-hand-man, Bill Berroth (Motonation) who did much of the race marketing along with Casey Folks.

The way the race was handled in many BLM and Forest locations was by helicopter and a PA system telling visitors that a race was in progress and not to move.

And BigBearJoe's comment about sparkling water is correct. I was dying of heat stroke in my last 30 miles of the race and a doctor's helicopter was landing to give riders the bubbly water from exhaustion. I just about spit it out but damn I was dying of thirst in that 120 degree Mesquite, NV heat! lol