RUST magazine: Rust#22

RUST Rally
there the year before got up for breakfast looking smug in their wellies. I first
tried my luck with flip flops, in an attempt not to ruin a perfectly good set of
trainers, but they just squelched straight into the mud. So after breaking one
of them I went on to ruin a perfectly good pair of trainers.
Not that I would want to give you the impression it was all rain and heat
and altitude. There were a couple of great things about my rally. One of them
was my team, which used to be called Orlen and is now called both Orlen
and Duust (and no that’s not a spelling mistake, or if it is I didn’t make it).
Those with long memories and an attention to detail might remember it is
where Toby Price made his Dakar debut. It’s a sort of informal KTM B team
and so is professional without being a full factory pressure cooker. It is
based in Poland (Orlen is the state oil company) and I really liked their
attitude. They cared about their riders, cared about their staff and didn’t take
themselves too seriously.