RUST magazine: BMW GS Trophy Special Edition 2016

izarre night test. It looked like a rodeo
crossed with Junior Kickstart (a 1980s TV
show in the UK featuring youth trials riders),
the only light came from the GSs headlights.
No one seemed to understand the rules, not
even the marshals. Accordingly Team UK
did well.
ger Alfred Scheurer in the night garden
Day Four
The shortest day – for distance, the time
taken was still plenty. It was the most fun
yet, riding in and out of broad riverbed for
mile after mile. The French were ecstatic
‘we can never do this back at home, it is
banned’ explained the hirsute Sebas
Saphores.
Silly things happened. Tom the GS Trophy
video producer and cameraman dropped
the front of his GS through a hole in a bridge
fortunately rolling over the front unharmed.
In fact, the film team would take a pasting
over the course of the event, they lost one
man to a crash in the Scouting run, and
injured two more during the week, Tom was
literally their last man standing by day
seven. Meanwhile photographer Markus
clouted a rock and locked the back brake
on his GS. We got it freed only for him to
ride over his own glasses.
Two tests followed – the first, a ride
through a river followed by a quick fire
questionnaire, like the Scottish Six Days
Trial and pub quiz rolled into one. Then a
‘manhandle your GS over fallen tree’
challenge. Team UK were quick on this, too,
despite James Berrill twice falling directly in
front of their GS and nearly getting flattened.
We rode along the river-border with