While its certainly still early days, Australian Andy Caldecott has shown that he has the pace to match it with the leaders with a third place in todays sixth stage of the Paris-Dakar.

In an Interview, Andy said:

"I guess it is a satisfaction to be in the top 5. But I'm disappointed because during 80kms I was in the dust of Cyril Despres. I then had a fuel problem. I knew I hadn't run out of fuel. It was just that the fuel wasn't going through. It happened at 10kms of the finish line and I lost around 30sec. I was very comfortable during the first 200kms. Tomorrow's stage is daunting because of the unknown ! I've never done such a long stage

VOR have finally updated their website, and the new one looks almost as trick as their motorcycles (although it doesn't work with Mozilla). Check it out here [url:http://www.vor.it/]

Amtra SA did a big trip to the Victorian high country this year, and everyone who went had an absolute blast. The following pictures are some choice ones from the trip. All were taken by riders on the trip, and a big thankyou for John for doing a lot of work in producing a CD of them all. Click on a picture to see it fullsize.

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