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That is also something that riders
say, “Man, I want a picture here.” Ev-
erybody is having a lot of fun in the
rafts. So it’s a competition but at the
same time a lot of excitement and
adventure.
Does the course start and finish
at the same place each day?
We start in Nandayure, which is
a very small, rural town. We have
the parade, which is Thursday at
4:00 PM is right there in Nandayure.
Then day one starts in Nandayure
but the riders finish on the beach.
So that means that we will have two
parc fermes. One parc ferme for day
zero and [another for the end of]
day one. But that day the riders will
deliver the bike to the parc ferme on
the beach. Then day two they leave
from the beach and end up on the
beach. Day three they leave from
the beach and then that’s it.
So it’s a three-day competition,
but would you recommend riders
try to take a week to do this?
Totally. We are having a lot of guys
from France, from Ireland, from
Spain, from England. We have Italian
guys already coming with their fami-
lies, which is not your case because
if you’re coming from Dallas, it’s just
three hours and fifteen minutes by
plane. It’s nothing. But these guys,
some of them traveling from really
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The manufacturers so far support-
ing the event (and possibly providing
rental bikes) are Sherco, Scorpa, Ver-
tigo, TRS, Montesa, Beta, and GasGas.
Electric Motion is possibly coming on
board to support as well.
Costa Rica has claimed it with be
the first carbon-neutral country in
the world in 2021, so to mitigate the
impact of the race, ten dollars of
every entry goes toward building the
first recycling plant for plastics in the
region. The plant is being built by
Trex (which formed its name from T-
Rex, so they were a natural fit for this
event and area).
For any non-riding family members,
the promoters will assign a tourism
professional to organize non-riding
activities including: white water raft-
ing, seeing the volcanoes, scuba div-
ing, fishing, and more.