Nick Sanders in the Nubian Desert
 

Check out this archetypal Mad Englishman going out in the midday sun on motorcyclenews.com (and You Tube), doing soft sand on a road-tyred R1 - hats off to this lunatic, what an inspiration!

Fantastic!!!! and to think how i deliberated for hours, weeks....no months over what type of dual sport bike to use for my trip.

That must be brutal though- a race bike in the sand?

Do you have a Utube Link?
 

Can you post a link?

YouTube - MCN News: Nick Sanders looks back from South Africa

I'm guessing its this...

Ah, the Jeremy Clarkson of motorcycling now writing for the Sun of motorcycling. Still, if we encourage more people to ride 24 hours a day whacked up on caffeine pills, and get them to go utterly unprepared into whatever desert the journalists can take a helicopter full of government minders to, I'm sure we'll all enjoy the paperwork and tests they'll introduce to stop muppets copying :thumbdown:

I may be having a sense of sense of humour bypass, but I don't see what this guy is trying to do.

Andy

The Nick Sanders debate!
 

How many Dead Stop failures has Nick Saunders had on his R! ?

Good on him, but it is quite surprising how well any plain old street bike will do in conditions like the Nubian desert.

We rode down through there last year and two of the guys riding with us were on Ducati Multistrada's. Big wide tires float quite well on the sand and there surprisingly wasn't much performance difference between those bikes and the other bikes in the group.

Of course if you head across country and the dunes of the Sahara, you'll find things like clearance, etc, will come into play but riding from Wadi Halfa to Dongola is pretty straightforward and a good bike and good rider will do just fine.

Kudos to him though, he rides long and far through a lot of conditions and it can't be easy. I just look at the seating position on that thing and think 'ouch'.