Adventure Survivors

Adventure Survivors

This entry is part 7 of 20 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #41

Australia’s first response to Thierry Sabine’s fledging Paris-Dakar Rallye was the Wynn’s Safari. Graeme Sedgwick was there, and recently uncovered a trove of memories from that amazing era.

I was dusty, damned hot and fraying at the edges when I handed my road card to officials on day four of the Wynn’s Safari in 1985. That was when David ‘Beak’ Murray and I first caught sight of each other. He was on an XT600 Ténéré that looked like an outback Mungo Jerry, battered red and grey on both sides with blow-dried mud gluing it together.

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