1510 DT final

This from the organizers, Extreme
Offroad Promotions:
Competitors: We hope you are training hard
and staying focussed on your goal – to finish
the Roof of Africa. Whatever class you have
entered, you have challenged yourself to an
incredible challenge of your own ability and
we wish you Good luck!
On the organising side, things have been
going quietly ahead. The last few months we
have been out most weekends looking for
new links and passes and we are now 90%
done and now just need to put it all together
and finalise the logistics like distances, fuel
points, service and spectator points. This is
never an easy exercise in Lesotho to try and
keep everybody happy!
Obviously we are not going to tell you the
route, but what we can tell you is that it will
be a shorter, more compact route, but just
as demanding as the Roof always dictates!
We will tell you that the Start and Finish
will, following on last year’s success, be at
Ha Patrick. This area was hugely popular
as it provided easy access, ample space
and parking for everybody as well as a
spectacular finish line.
What’s new this year? Well, not a lot;
the last two years saw Extreme Off Road
Promotions introduce all sorts of new
innovations such as the transponder scoring
system and the satellite tracking system to
bring the Roof of Africa to the forefront in
standards expected of International extreme
enduro events. These innovations were
hugely successful and contributed greatly to
the smoother and safer running of the event
and we will continue with these.
Last year the tracking system was untested
and we were hesitant to make too big a
deal about making the tracking available to
the public, however it was a great success
and all spectators, service crews and fans
will this year be able to follow competitors
via their cell phones or tablets from
anywhere in the world via the Yellow Brick
App. Having said that, there is nothing like
experiencing the Roof live as a spectator
and with the December date, we hope that
many families turn out to be part of this
event.
Last year the Round the Houses was
changed significantly, by taking the event
in to the Maseru Soccer Club “Arena” This
really worked well in terms of creating a
real spectacle along with the enormously
popular FMX show. We will be sticking by
this winning formula.
In a bid to showcase the event and the
riders, technical inspection has been
scheduled for Gold Class competitors. This
will be held on Wednesday afternoon in one
of Maseru’s popular and busy Shopping Malls
and will give the general public a chance to
mingle with their heroes and get autographs
signed. The technical inspection will be kept
to the minimum and will be pretty much
confined to a decal check and recording
of frame and engine numbers. Press and
Media Interviews will take place at the same
venue and we are confident that this will be
a popular event with the teams, competitors,
spectators and general public alike.
The Roof remains hugely popular with entries
sitting at 380 and we now eagerly await to
see which competitors from overseas will be
competing. Watch this space!
For those of you that didn’t see it in action
last year, here is the link to the Yellow
Brick Satellite tracking for the 2014 Roof
of Africa. You can replay the whole race
and see where anybody was at any specific
time. This same system will be available to
the public again this year either for you to
follow on your PC or you can download the
app to your cellphone/tablet. Remember
that if you want to follow it in Lesotho to buy
a local sim card and data from ECONET at
Registration to avoid using roaming data
which is very expensive. Here is the link
http://yb.tl/roa2014
A word from Motul: One of the headline
sponsors:
Motul is proud to continue our partnership
with the Roof of Africa for 2015. We can
also confirm that once again all riders will
have access to the complimentary Motul MC
Care Bike Wash. We had a few requests last
year from riders wanting to wash their own
bikes, so this year competitors will have the
option of washing their bikes themselves,
or taking advantage of the full service wash
similar to last year.
Motul will also be offering Motul Care Packs
which will be available at your nearest
Motul dealer as well as at the event and will
include the following items:
Motul air filter oil. Motul off-road chain
lube. Motul helmet interior cleaner. Motul
hands clean.
Photographs:
This year, we will have a mobile printing
studio with all of the photo’s from the Dirt
And Trail photographers of the event up on
display, so every evening, you can purchase
a printed copy during the ride, or you can
order online.
380 riders booked so far!
More Roof News next month…
www.roofofafrica.info
www.facebook.com/roofofafricalive
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