Page 19 - Australian Motorcycle News (January 2020)

RACING

AND STREET
1. Hutter and Thompson flew the Aussie flag in deepest
Burjatien 2. Wet weather handling was, well, invigorating

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“We’d carry our daily rations

under our armpits to

prevent freezing”

lines,” recalls Hutter. ahead to find a camp out of
Despite this, rubber fuel the wind. I discovered a small MADE IN
lines would freeze and crack abandoned village, half dozen
during the ride, on one or so huts with collapsed DENMARK
occasion leaking fuel over roofs. I stood on the pegs and
Thompson’s leg – which faulty took my helmet off to have
wiring then immediately set a better look around as the
ablaze, offering Dylan short bike slowly ploughed through
respite from the minus 30°C waist deep snow.
as he dived off the bike into “Suddenly there was a
the snow. growling sound behind
“We’d carry our me and I turned just
daily rations under Against in time to see the
our armpits to the odds wolf. The pressure
prevent freezing. Fancy reading more from its jaws was
At minus 30°C about the pair’s icy intense, even
absolutely adventure? Head to through double-
everything we did theadventurists. layered boots. I
was determined by com. grabbed my helmet,
the temperature.” smacked the wolf and
As incredible as it sounds, frantically kicked the stalled
these two Aussies also bike whilst hitting the horn.”
encountered a rather unique Obviously Hutter lived to
problem. tell the tale – as did the bloke
“Late one night on the with hypothermia – so if any
zimnic (frozen river), one other AMCN reader is keen
of the team was suffering to defy death, the Ice run is
hypothermia and I rode where it’s at.

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