the most insane thing I had done and now I wanted to do
something special to remember it.”
He laughs about how he decided to get a tattoo while
in Moscow, his mates were in on it too, “(It) shows me
that I had chosen the right guys for this trip.”
“I can’t believe that an ordinary guy like me gets to
build such a crazy machine and then take it to such an
extreme event,” Brice continued. “I had this phrase in
my head ‘Good for nothing. Ready for everything’ that
summed up this feeling and I decided to get it tattooed
on my leg in Russian. Seb joined me with a matching
tattoo, while Dorsan had the phrase tattooed in French.”
From Moscow the team made their way to Ulan Ude
before a five-hour bus ride to Maksimikha, Republic of
Buryatia, the events base. No rest. Appaloosa needed
to be assembled in preparation for the following days
technical inspection.
The team’s paddock garage for the week was a canvas
and cloth tent with a wood burning stove inside. With
temperatures often dipping well below -25C, the stove
was essential to keep Appaloosa and the team warm
enough to work and operate. Sharing the tent with the
Workhorse team were two Russian vehicles and their
teams, a tiny home-built bike with a lawnmower engine
and a classic Ural.
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